Новости за 25.08.2020

The handing over of Syria’s oil fields for exploitation by a US company constitutes a war crime, and has escalated dangerous tensions between American and Russian military forces.

Despite last week’s arrests of prominent student leaders, the protests are growing unabated around the country in the lead-up to a major rally planned in September.

Albion College in south-central Michigan promised a safe return, but one student’s experience reveals a different picture, one of unsanitary rooms, a lack of sanitization supplies, failing protocols, and a testing regime full of holes.

The court decision, however, does not guarantee that schools will remain closed and in-person classroom learning will be halted until daily case rates for COVID-19 reach below 5 percent.

At a press briefing last week, the US president delivered an extraordinary thumbs-up to the QAnon online grouping, which justifies violence against his political opponents.

Protests against police violence erupted Sunday after an officer was caught on video shooting Jacob Blake seven times in the back at point blank range.

The Morrison government momentarily dropped its conservative facade.

Sittingbourne's Luke Hopkins was left to rue what might have been after running off track at Snetterton on Sunday.

A mother-of-two is worried lockdown will mean her son cannot get the diagnosis he needs to get him help with his learning difficulties.

Maidstone boss Hakan Hayrettin has turned to a familiar face to be his assistant.

Tom Ward had his first outing aboard the Bike Devil Kawasaki in British Superbikes at the weekend.

Canterbury's Josh Bristow warmed up for the British Amateur Championship by finishing tied for 10th in the Brabazon Trophy.

In a UK first, passenger data will be released by Southeastern to help people choose travel times.

A popular Bank Holiday event feared cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic will go ahead but with a limited programme.

Raoul Fraser and his team have taken over a caravan park at a Kent coast holiday resort. Here's why.

Fresh plans to open a microbrewery along a seafront stretch have been unveiled - five months after the first bid was branded "harmful".

Arsenal expect to lose Sam Greenwood to a Premier League rival before the summer transfer window slams shut.

Diana was the tragic example of an imprisoned princess bound by arcane rules until her political causes helped set her free. Could the duchess be following suit?

By design, teen comedies often burn bright and fast: The young stars, top 40 needle drops, and cool-kid slang all tap into the current zeitgeist, forever tethering them to the year they were made. No matter how outdated they look, there’s an appeal to revisiting them as time capsules. But few have the everlasting…

Nearly two weeks after results day, homeschooled students still don’t have grades and its unlikely they’ll get any at all

A combination of racism, deprivation and social inequality has made people from black and Asian ethnic groups twice as likely to die of Covid-19 in the UK. Fixing this will mean correcting inequality in all its forms

The government replaced Public Health England with a new National Institute for Health Protection. How can it get things right?

From Talhelm and English (open source): Data recently published in PNAS mapped out regional differences in the tightness of social norms across China [R. Y. J. Chua, K. G. Huang, M. Jin, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 116, 6720–6725 (2019)]. Norms were tighter in developed, urbanized areas and weaker in rural areas. We tested whether historical paddy rice farming has left a legacy on social norms in modern China. Premodern rice farming could plausibly create strong social norms because paddy rice relied on irrigation networks. Читать дальше...