The one-week lockdown comes after Canberra recorded its first case of Covid-19 for more than a year. Source link

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said her priority was vaccinating the population by the end of 2021. Source link

“Either they just intended to commit theft and steal the assets, or they were acting like a white hat hacker to expose a bug, to help Poly Network make themselves more strong and secure,” Mr Robinson, who routinely advises governments and law enforcement agencies about crypto-related crimes, explained to the […]

The world has already warmed by about 1.2C since the industrial era began, which “doesn’t sound like much”, says Columbia University climate scientist Radley Horton, but it has “profoundly shifted the statistics of heatwaves, making them much more common, much more extreme and much longer duration”. Source link

Skateboarding was included in the Olympic Games for the first time at Tokyo 2020. Teenagers dominated the podiums in both the women’s street and park events. The BBC’s Mariko Oi sat down with Japan’s youngest gold medallist – Momiji Nishiya – to find out what winning skateboarding gold meant to […]

Wildfires have forced hundreds of people to leave the Greek island of Evia. The fires have destroyed houses and brought down power lines. Residents have become volunteer firefighters in an attempt to end the wildfires that are tearing across the island. Spyros, a local supermarket worker, spoke to the BBC […]

Tens of thousands of ordinary people have had to flee their homes – with hundreds killed or injured in recent weeks – as Taliban insurgents continue to gain ground in Afghanistan. As foreign troops withdraw, many Afghans fear a brutal return to the regime of the 1990s, which was characterised […]

Opponents say the plans are an attempt to silence a TV channel critical of the government. Source link

If the registered reading is verified, it will be hottest temperature ever recorded in Europe. Source link