11.20pm EDT 23:20 Eleanor Ainge Roy In other news of daring New Zealand escapes (possibly): a specialist search and recovery team has been deployed to recapture the last remaining survivors of a flock of endangered birds that absconded from a predator-free island in New Zealand during coronavirus lockdown. Shore plovers are endemic to New Zealand…
Image copyright Reuters Image caption The border between New South Wales and Victoria has been closed since Tuesday Australia's second-largest city has begun a second lockdown in response to a spike in new coronavirus infections.Five million Melbourne residents will be barred from leaving home for six weeks, except for essential reasons.Police say they are setting…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…