Coronavirus: Trump's health secretary says US has world's worst death toll because Americans are so unhealthy'We have a significantly disproportionate burden of co-morbidities in the United States— obesity, hypertension, diabetes'Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar blamed the large number of US coronavirus cases and deaths on the n ...

"It is abundantly clear that East Asia has managed the Covid-19 crisis far better than the West. So what is behind this glaring differential?"“One of the major differences in terms of casualties is whether [governments] acted promptly,” said Dr. Kenji Shibuya, a professor of Population Health at London’s Kings College. “In the UK it too ...

Three Conservative MPs have been reprimanded for sharing a misleading video of Keir Starmer from a “far-right” Twitter account.Edited footage showing the Labour leader discussing grooming gangs was posted on Twitter on Thursday by health minister Nadine Dorries, assistant government whip Maria Caulfield and Lucy Allan.A spokesperson for Dow ...

This pandemic has knocked a huge hole in President Trump’s hopes of re-election, It has flattened the “humming economy” on which he’d planned to ride to victory. And his dire mismanagement of the crisis and bizarre, self-congratulatory press conferences have completely negated the initial “‘rally around the flag’ bounce” he enjoyed at the start ...

Richard Branson's bailout plea proves there's no one more shameless Marina HydeEyeing up the public purse from distant shores, Britain’s Best-Loved Businessman™ is truly one of the global super-elite[img]https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/40123c15 ...

The European Union will be destroyed by its immoral handling of the coronavirus crisisMany European citizens – particularly those in Italy – will pay a huge price because of the pandemic, and public opinion will not forget the EU’s failure to helpOn 27 March, Pope Francis was standing alone in an empty St Peter’s Square. Media from around th ...

Following the deaths of 33 Turkish soldiers by Syrian forces in Idlib on Thursday, [url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/world/europe/greece-migrants-border-turkey.html]Erdogan announced that he will be sending all the migrants towards Europe in an attempt to force Europeans to side with him in Syria[/url: ...

Pi (π) is both the sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet and the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. The difference between what is round and what is straight has no exact value. The calculation of pi begins at 3.14159 and stretches indefinitely.Pi may provide a link between mathematics and sexuality. Since the phallic st ...

2016: the Great Pivot YearOur correspondent imagines what future generations will make of the year western society turned on its axisBY David Goodhart The great pivot year was, of course 2016. Brexit and Trump. It is now clear, from a 2049 perspective, that the Anglo-Saxons led t ...

Erdogan shows off new map drawn between himself and Libya's President. The "deal" dubbed as a Memorandum of Understanding(MOU) has been rejected by the Libyan Parliament and a letter has been sent to the UN by Libya's parliament declaring the MOU "null & void".[img]https://www.in.gr/wp-cont ...

We trained chickens to react to an average human female face but not to an average male face (or vice versa). In a subsequent test, the animals showed preferences for faces consistent with human sexual preferences (obtained from university students). This suggests that human preferences arise from general properties of nervous systems, rather t ...

Donald Trump has threatened to "totally destroy and obliterate" Turkey's economy if the country does anything that he does not like in Syria, amid criticism from Republicans over new US policy allowing the Turkish military to take over in the war-torn country.The statement follows after Mr Trump announced he had decided to pull back US ...

The court of protection has ruled that a man who cannot understand the issue of consent must be allowed to pursue sexual relationships.Mrs Justice Roberts ruled that the man, who has autism with impaired cognition and lives in a supported residential placement, has a “fundamental right to sex”.The court considers is ...

Household appliances will become easier to repair thanks to new standards being adopted across the European Union.From 2021, firms will have to make appliances longer-lasting, and they will have to supply spare parts for machines for up to 10 years.The rules apply to lighting, washing machin ...