South Korea To Start Own Food Service For Olympic Athletes
South Korea is all set to start its own full-fledged food service for its athletes and delegates from a hotel near the Olympic village in Tokyo, according to a report by the country’s Yonhap news agency. The decision reflects South Korea’s concerns that meals containing ingredients from Fukushima Prefecture, home to the disaster-stricken Fukushima No. […]
UK PM Reverses Plan To Skip Quarantine After COVID-19 Exposure
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, and finance minister Rishi Sunak will both self-isolate in line with national guidance, abandoning heavily criticized plans to take part in a pilot scheme that would have allowed them to continue working. The U-turn comes a day after health minister Sajid Javid said he had tested […]
Mastercard Banned In India From Issuing New Cards
Mastercard has been ordered from taking in new customers and issuing new cards in India due to their failure of compliance to the country’s regulation as to the way the data should be stored. Authorities have said that the company violated the rules and was given enough time to comply with the new regulation. The […]
Canada Eclipses US In Percentage Of Fully Vaccinated Residents
After lagging behind other developed countries in the early months of the COVID pandemic, Canada has officially surpassed the United States of America in terms of percentage of fully vaccinated residents. According to a report from CTV News’ Vaccine Tracker, 48.8% of Canadian residents are fully vaccinated compared to the 48.1% of US residents. Despite […]
England Lifts COVID Restrictions Even As Variant Case Spike
The British government has lifted all the COVID restrictions on Monday, removing all the social distancing norms. This move was highly criticised by the scientific community and the opposition parties as the government takes a step into the unknown. The nightclubs were allowed to run at full capacity and legal mandates like wearing a mask […]
Toyota Cancels Tokyo Olympics TV Ads in Japan
Toyota Motor Corp. was a corporate sponsor of the Tokyo Olympics but it has now decided to pull out of the sponsorships and the Olympic-related ads in Japan. Japanese media speculated Monday that the decision was made because the car manufacturer fears association with the troubled Summer Games, which are deeply unpopular in Japan, may […]
Three Test Positive At Olympic Village, Fear Of Outbreak At Games
Two athletes have tested positive for the coronavirus in the Tokyo Olympic Village after a team colleague was also infected, officials said on Sunday, raising fears of a cluster just days before the opening ceremony. The first cases involving athletes in the Village come a day after a member of their entourage returned the first positive […]
Google Hits Record $593 Million Fine In France In News Copyright Battle
On Tuesday, the French competition regulators fined Google 500 million Euros ($594 million) for failing to comply with an order to negotiate fair deals with news publishers for the use of their content. France’s Competition Authority said Google had breached an April 2020 ruling that ordered the company to negotiate “in good faith” licensing deals with publishers […]
Chinese Man Reunited With Son Snatched 24 Years Ago
A Chinese man has been reunited with his son after a 24-year search that saw him travel over 500,000km (310,000 mi) on a motorbike across the country. Guo Gangtang’s son had been snatched aged two by human traffickers in front of their home in the province of Shandong. His son’s disappearance actually inspired a movie […]
Earth’s Atmosphere Is Retaining Heat Twice As Fast As It Did Just 15 Years Ago
Climate change is being talked about all around us. Everywhere around us, we see books and magazines that point towards the negative consequences of climate change. Everything from the hottest years on record to ruining astronomy can be tied to climate change. Scientists are facing another worrisome thought that is going to provoke much thought too. The Earth is […]