By Avi Asher-Schapiro As millions of students in Britain await exam results this month, a row has erupted over algorithms used to calculate their grades after exams were cancelled due to the new coronavirus. In a last-minute change following an outcry in Scotland, education minister Gavin Williamson said on Wednesday that students...
By Alistair Smout Britain‘s official death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic was lowered by over 5,000 on Wednesday because the government adopted a new way of counting fatalities after concerns were raised that the old method overstated them. From now on, the authorities will publish on a daily basis the...
By Rami Ayyub Israel said on Wednesday it thwarted a cyber attack on its defence industry by a hacking group known as Lazarus, which the United States says is run by North Korean intelligence. Israel‘s Defence Ministry said hackers posing as potential employers sent job offers to defence workers trying...
U.S. Ambassador to Britain Woody Johnson has made insensitive and inappropriate comments during his tenure, including about race, religion and sex, the State Department’s inspector general has found, judging that morale in some parts of the mission has dropped. In a report published on Wednesday, the inspector general’s office said...
Police on Wednesday rearrested a 68-year-old man suspected abusing his 31-year-old domestic worker. He is being investigated for human trafficking, exploitation of labour, racism and xenophobia. The 68-year-old was initially arrested some two weeks ago after a video was released in which a man is seen physically assaulting his Filipina...
Turkish Cypriot ‘foreign minister’ Kudret Ozersay said on Wednesday he was dissatisfied with the response of the EU Commission president, Ursula Von der Leyen, to his letter complaining that the Greek Cypriot side has banned foreign nationals from crossing to the north using the pandemic as an excuse. Von der...
British tour and flight operator TUI announced on Wednesday that it was cancelling all holidays to Cyprus until August 23, citing the testing requirements imposed by the Cypriot authorities. “Due to the local authorities in Cyprus implementing testing requirements, we have cancelled all holidays to Cyprus up to and including...
Some skin, eggs and tissue samples are all that remain of Malaysia’s last rhino, Iman, who died last November after years of failed breeding attempts. Now scientists are pinning their hopes on experimental stem cell technology to bring back the Malaysian variant of the Sumatran rhinoceros, making use of cells from Iman...
Fourteen new coronavirus cases were detected on Wednesday the health ministry announced. This brings the total to 1,291 cases. Four of them concern people who arrived from abroad including a Cypriot couple living permanently in the UK who came to Cyprus to visit their family. They arrived on Tuesday from...
