France has announced it will ease its border restrictions with the UK, raising hopes for summer holidays later this year. Tourism Minister Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne said arrivals from Britain, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Israel and Singapore will no longer need a ‘compelling reason’ to travel due to low or falling cases in those countries. Lemoyne … Read more
People with higher incomes are ‘prouder, more confident and less afraid’, according to ‘the most comprehensive analysis to date’. Researchers in the US and Singapore analysed income data and questionnaire results of 1.6 million people in 162 countries, including the US, the UK, Ireland, Australia, Germany, France and Japan. Higher income predicted whether people felt … Read more
Vaccine passports have landed in the UK as the International Air Transport Association trials an app with an airline between Singapore and London. The phone software from IATA stores evidence of a negative Covid test as well as the facility to store evidence travellers have had coronavirus vaccinations. It is being trialled over the next few … Read more
New pictures show Facebook’s gargantuan new data center taking shape beneath snow-capped mountains in Utah – with plans already being made for a further expansion. The Eagle Mountain Data Center will house some of Facebook’s vast network of servers, joining other sites belonging to the tech giant in the United States, Denmark, Sweden, Ireland and … Read more
Qantas will be flying travellers overseas as early as October 31 as the airline giant gets set to resume international flights. Alan Joyce, the flying kangaroo airline’s chief executive, said travel would resume to 22 of the 25 destinations, including Los Angeles, London, Singapore and Johannesburg, despite a South African strain. New York, Santiago and Osaka … Read more
War veteran, 100, who was robbed of £4,000 when his home was burgled while he was in hospital recovering from a fall says he ‘appreciates’ strangers raising £17,000 – but tells GMB ‘a lot of it’ will go to charity Len Parry, 100, from Skipton, North Yorks, kept nearly £4,000 in his safe Upset when … Read more
War veteran, 100, who was robbed of £4,000 when his home was burgled while he was in hospital recovering from a fall says he ‘appreciates’ strangers raising £17,000 – but tells GMB ‘a lot of it’ will go to charity Len Parry, 100, from Skipton, North Yorks, kept nearly £4,000 in his safe Upset when … Read more
Powerful ‘Covid O’ Cabinet committee is set to consider plans for ‘vaccine passports’ tomorrow amid hopes they could save summer holidays Covid O committee having initial discussions about ‘vaccine passports’ for travel Boris Johnson has said having two Covid jabs could allow you to go on holiday Iata revealed ‘fruitful’ Government talks about vaccination app for … Read more
Maths professor in Singapore delivers two-hour lecture on Zoom only to realise he was on mute the entire time Prof. Dong Wang of the National University of Singapore gave lecture on Feb. 4 Within first couple of minutes his screen froze and students couldn’t hear him His mathematics students tried to reach him by phone and … Read more
Grant Shapps revealed today he has had talks with foreign politicians about an ‘internationally recognised system’ of allowing travellers to prove they have had a Covid jab. The Transport Secretary made the admission despite Downing Street insisting for weeks that it has no plans to introduce ‘vaccine passports’ that would prove the holder’s coronanvirus immunity. … Read more