Veteran Palestinian peace negotiator Saeb Erekat has died aged 65 after contracting coronavirus, it has been confirmed. Dr Erekat was Palestine’s chief negotiator and international spokesman for more than three decades. He died in an Israeli hospital on Tuesday, weeks after testing positive for COVID-19, his party Fatah confirmed. Live updates on coronavirus from UK
A smooth transition of power in the US is looking less likely with Donald Trump blocking co-operation with Joe Biden’s team and the US attorney general authorising investigations into allegations of electoral fraud. The Electoral College is scheduled to formally confirm Mr Biden‘s victory on 14 December with the Democrat being sworn into office in
[Warning: The following contains spoilers for Season 4, Episode 2 of The Good Doctor. Read at your own risk!] The Good Doctor‘s two-part premiere concluded Monday night after a second hour saw the doctors of St. Bonaventure bring the COVID-19 pandemic to manageable levels. The second episode also allowed fans to spend a little more
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Chloe Kim is America’s relatable sweetheart. It wasn’t her 2018 Olympic gold medal or the fact that she became the youngest female winner in snowboarding history at 17 years old but her overall demeanor that won our hearts. A ball of sunshine with really good hair, Kim became the face of the sport and showed
Barry Jenkins (photo via Instagram/Mohammad Gorjestani) and Wilco circa early 2000s Last Friday, Wilco reissued Summerteeth in celebration of its 20th anniversary. Another throwback Wilco album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, is in the spotlight this week, and it’s all thanks to filmmaker Barry Jenkins. In news that’s sure to make you do a double take, the revered Moonlight
Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at an opening ceremony for Tesla China-made Model Y program in Shanghai on Jan. 7. Aly Song | Reuters President-elect Joe Biden presents a mixed bag for Tesla and other electric car-makers. On the pro side, Biden’s stated goals for clean energy and manufacturing could mean new government incentives for
The House of Lords has voted to remove parts of the government’s Brexit legislation that ministers have admitted will allow them to break international law. In two votes, peers voted overwhelmingly (433 votes to 165, majority 268, and 407 votes to 148, majority 259) to strip out the controversial clauses in the UK Internal Market
Stock markets have responded very strongly to news from the US drugs giant Pfizer and the German biotech company BioNTech that their COVID-19 vaccine has proved to be more than 90% effective in late stage clinical trials. The positive outcome to the trials, which to date have involved almost 44,000 people globally, have raised hopes
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian says he has ordered an end to fighting with Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Mr Pashinian said on Facebook that he signed an agreement with the presidents of Azerbaijan and Russia to halt the fighting that has raged since late September. Several thousand people are feared to have died since
There was nothing surprising about Joe Biden’s speech to the nation on coronavirus. Yet it felt refreshing in its predictability. You could almost hear America breathing a collective sigh of relief. It was the country’s clearest message yet on wearing a face mask and it came from a small theatre in Wilmington, not the White
Mac Miller may have passed away over two years ago, but his memory lives in our minds and hearts rent free. In spite of the time, Ganja White Night have clearly been feeling some type of way about the late legend as they dropped a new tribute mashup between their own “Champagne” and Mac’s “Blue
Fake *thank you* smiles need not apply You know how it goes: you’re making a list, checking it twice and then realize, uh-oh spaghetti-oh, it’s mid-December and you’ve actually checked off a total of ZERO from your holiday gift-giving listicle. Big yikes. And while the holidays look a little different this year, seasonal last-minute spending
Morgan Wallen‘s pissed Joe Biden supporters can pack in together to fill the streets in celebration during the pandemic, yet he can’t perform concerts. The country music star posted a video showing the massive group of people outside the White House celebrating President-elect Biden’s victory … with zero social distancing. Wallen wrote “Time to start
iPhone 12 Mini and iPhone 12 Pro Max Todd Haselton | CNBC I’ve spent the last week reviewing Apple’s iPhone 12 Pro Max and iPhone 12 Mini. They’re the second half of the four iPhones Apple announced in October, following the regular iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro, and they’re also the largest and smallest
Lord Kilclooney has been reported to the Commissioner for Standards and the Lords Speaker after referring to vice-president elect Kamala Harris as “the Indian” on Twitter. It is not the first time Lord Kilclooney, a cross-bench peer, has been accused of racism, after he previously described then-Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar as “a typical Indian”.