Things are not going well on the Continent. Germany’s third wave of the coronavirus could turn into the worst one so far and 100,000 new daily infections are not out of the question, the head of the German Robert Koch Institute (RKI) said on Friday. The number of new confirmed coronavirus infections in Germany has
Willard? Has anyone seen Willard? If you don’t remember, that was a movie about a guy who develops an affinity for rats, and lots of them. Some people living in rural communities in the Australian state of New South Wales must be wondering if they have a modern-day Willard in their midst, as they are
Even people in far-flung places need the vaccine. Army pilots landed their helicopter on the tiny Irish island of Arranmore just before lunch on Thursday and handed over their precious cargo of COVID-19 vaccines to Dr. Kevin Quinn and his grinning daughter Aoife. The arrival of first batch of shots last month was a “joyous
This doesn’t seem very neighborly. A new website in Japan maps what might be called noise pollution of the humankind, including noisy children skateboarding on the streets, couples arguing in their homes, and people gathered on the sidewalk, gossiping for long hours. All of this is considered disturbing the peace. The information is crowdsourced, which
Well, when you sanction illegal activity, you’ll get more of it, right? This seems so obvious. Mexico’s government is worried the new U.S. administration’s asylum policies are stoking illegal immigration and creating business for organized crime. Ever since President Joe Biden won the White House vowing to undo the hardline approach of his predecessor Donald
