UK moves to end early GCSE teaching in Year 7–9 shake-up
The UK government plans to stop secondary schools from routinely teaching the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) content before Year 10, as part of a curriculum overhaul aimed at making the first three years of secondary school more engaging.
Vatican: Covid-19 vaccines OK despite link with aborted fetal tissue
The Vatican’s doctrinal office on Monday cleared the way for Catholics to be inoculated with coronavirus vaccines even if aborted fetal tissue was used to develop them. “It is morally acceptable to receive Covid-19 vaccines that have used cell lines from aborted fetuses in their research and production process,” the Congregation for the Doctrine of […]
Malaysian health ministry says up to 4 months needed to vet COVID-19 vaccine
Malaysia’s National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency (NPRA) could take up to four months to decide if the Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech could be administered. The county’s Health Ministry Director-General, Noor Hisham Adbullah disclosed this at a news conference on Monday. “We may take around 90 to 120 days to scrutinise everything and […]
Two men guilty of killing 39 Vietnamese migrants found in lorry
Two men were on Monday found guilty of manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants, who died in the back of a lorry in Essex, England in October 2019. Gheorghe Nica, 43, from Essex, and the lorry driver, Eamonn Harrison, 23, from Northern Ireland, were found guilty for the deaths of the victims. During the trial in […]
Russia denies role in US cyber attacks
The Kremlin on Monday denied any role in recent cyberattacks on the United States, saying American accusations that Russia was behind a major security breach lacked evidence. US lawmakers over the weekend urged a tough response to a huge cyber attack on government agencies and criticised US President Donald Trump’s unwillingness to point the finger […]
Russia, Rwanda send troops to Central Africa after alleged coup bid
The Central African Republic said Monday that Russia and Rwanda had sent in hundreds of troops after an alleged attempted coup ahead of upcoming elections. The government in CAR, one of the world’s poorest and most unstable countries, accused former president Francois Bozize on Saturday of fomenting a would-be putsch by three rebel groups. The groups […]
