February 4, 2021 Is Tesla's strange steering 'wheel' legal? This country says 'yes' The United Kingdom's Department for Transport has declared Tesla's yoke-style steering wheel to be legal in the country, while U.S. regulators continue to investigate the matter.
February 4, 2021 Mix-and-match COVID-19 vaccine trial results to be available by summer Results of a world-first study that will mix and match COVID-19 vaccines are expected by the summer, according to a senior member of the research team.
February 4, 2021 UK’s Matt Hancock says ‘Contagion’ helped inform him with COVID-19 vaccine rollout Britain’s Health Secretary Matt Hancock said in an interview Wednesday that the 2011 movie “Contagion” helped to influence his approach on how best to roll out the COVID-19 vaccine in the U.K.
February 3, 2021 AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine drops virus transmission rate, sustains protection: study The AstraZeneca-Oxford coronavirus vaccine not only dropped virus transmission by two-thirds, but it also improved hospitalization rates and prevented serious disease, according to new, preliminary findings.
February 3, 2021 Man wakes up from 11-month coma, as family weighs how to explain pandemic to him: report A teenager from the United Kingdom has woken up from a roughly 11-month long coma, leading his family to weigh how they will explain the coronavirus pandemic to him, according to reports this week.
February 2, 2021 Capt. Tom Moore, WWII vet whose walk cheered UK, dies at 100 Capt. Tom Moore, the World War II veteran who walked into the hearts of the United Kingdom in lockdown as he shuffled up and down his garden to raise money for health care workers, has died after testing positive for COVID-19. He was 100.
February 2, 2021 Pakistan orders man acquitted in Daniel Pearl murder off death row Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Pakistani-British man acquitted of the 2002 gruesome beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl off death row and moved to a so-called government “safe house."
February 1, 2021 UK launches mass coronavirus testing in effort to contain South African variant cases The U.K. is launching so-called “surge testing” in a number of locations where additional cases of the South African coronavirus variant has been found.
February 1, 2021 'Captain Tom,' 100-year-old veteran who raised millions for COVID relief, hospitalized with virus Tom Moore, the 100-year-old British World War II veteran who captivated the nation by raising more than $40 million toward COVID-19 relief last year, was admitted to the hospital with the virus on Sunday, according to his daughter.
January 31, 2021 UK school principal plans to come out to pupils, staff during online assembly The principal of an exclusive private school plans to make history in the UK by coming out as gay during an online assembly.
