Don’t miss a thing by getting the Daily Star’s biggest headlines straight to your inbox! An Australian mum has been left unable to hold her child after a supposed eye infection was discovered to be something far more insidious. Eight-month-old Baby Wally was taken to his GP with a red eye for which he was […]

GUATEMALA CITY (AFP) – Guatemala has declared a new state of emergency and will impose an overnight curfew from Sunday (Aug 15) to contain a surge in Covid-19 infections due to the Delta variant, President Alejandro Giammattei said. The 30-day state of emergency is being implemented due to a rebound in cases attributed to the […]

Belarus: Lukashenko leaves stage following press conference We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Ryszard Czarnecki, MEP from Poland’s Law and Justice […]

Total vaccination numbers in the U.S. are at the highest they have been in more than a month as companies, organizations and, most recently, cities have begun announcing vaccine mandates. At the same time, Covid cases have also climbed around the country, driven by the highly contagious delta variant. White House chief of staff Ronald […]

SEVEN hikers were struck by lightning as they climbed a North Carolina mountain during a freak thunderstorm on Friday – leaving one hospitalized. “Earlier today we did have a storm come up abruptly on the mountain,” Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation’s rep Landis Taylor told the Sun. “There was a lightning strike in that area and […]

Inside a Las Vegas courtroom last week, renters and landlords battled over evictions that continued at a brisk pace despite a last-minute, two-month extension of the federal protections meant to keep people in their homes. Vanessa Merryman, 41, was among the tenants ordered to leave her apartment. “I have never been homeless in my life,” […]

One student was killed by another in a shooting at a middle school in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Friday. The shooting took place at about 12:45 p.m. local time between two male students during a lunch break outside Washington Middle School. Friday was just the third day of classes for the school district. Police were […]

As schools prepare to reopen five days per week amid an alarming surge in the coronavirus, Los Angeles and Chicago, the second and third-largest districts in the nation, announced on Friday some of the strongest teacher vaccine mandates to date. Educators and school staff in both cities will have to be fully vaccinated by Oct. […]

Countries relying on one of China’s Covid vaccines should get booster jabs because it only cuts the risk of infection by 50%, study claims A study in Peru found Sinopharm to be 50.4% effective against Covid infections Earlier estimates had put the efficacy level as high as 78.1 per cent Researchers said recipients should be […]

The international corporate reporting season is winding down this week, just as ours here begins. Let’s hope we follow offshore trends and that corporate New Zealand can deliver some similarly upbeat results. The forthcoming results will cover the first six months of 2021 and most of these should look strong, simply based on the extreme […]