A selection of powerful news photographs taken around the world this week: Image copyright Mario Tama / Getty Images Image caption Juice, a pit bull, is cared for at a mobile veterinary service for pets in Skid Row, Los Angeles, California. The Pets in Need Project has been travelling to areas with homeless populations throughout … Read more
Police and trading standards officials have told BBC News that social media influencers are unwittingly helping to fuel the trade in counterfeit goods. With their millions of followers, many of them get paid to promote clothing in their posts, but the authorities fear some may be advertising fakes. The trade is moving increasingly online, especially … Read more
Director of the National Institutes of Health Dr. Francis Collins, who is Dr. Anthony Fauci’s boss, is asked about what he would do if he were asked by President Trump to fire Fauci. Source link
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Federal agents have been called in by President Trump amid ongoing demonstrations Oregon Governor Kate Brown has accused federal agents in unmarked cars who apparently detained protesters in Portland of a “blatant abuse of power”. Federal officers, deployed by US President Donald Trump, have also fired tear gas and … Read more
Image copyright Getty Images Three months after a gunman posing as a police officer went on a rampage across the province of Nova Scotia, questions still remain about Canada’s deadliest mass shooting, and why the Royal Canadian Mounted Police couldn’t stop it. When police arrived at the first crime scene at 10:36pm on 18 April, … Read more
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Friday that she had had a recurrence of cancer, but had been undergoing chemotherapy that had shown “positive results” and would remain on the court. “I have often said I would remain a member of the court as long as I can do the job full steam,” she said in … Read more
EU leaders have been meeting in their first face-to-face summit since the coronavirus crisis, with low expectations of a deal on a €750bn (£670bn) post-Covid stimulus package. Hopes are not high for a conclusion to be reached by the end of talks on Saturday as some harder-hit countries such as Spain and Italy are seeking … Read more
Users were locked out of websites Friday due to an outage with web infrastructure giant Clouflare. Angela Lang/CNET Several websites became unavailable Friday after Cloudflare experienced outages in parts of its network. The affected system, called a DNS resolver, connects web users to the right websites when they type in a URL. Those affected reportedly … Read more
Image copyright Instagram Image caption ‘Honestly, I thought the incident would go unnoticed,’ Marichka Padalko said Live TV can throw up all sorts of potential hurdles – technical glitches, unpredictable guests and knowing that there is no take two. But Marichka Padalko, a news anchor on Ukraine, faced an usual problem this week when part … Read more
Birx’s forward-facing role as a public health expert masks an ambitious political chameleon, whose staying power in numerous administrations during her three decades in government has come at no small cost to her management style and her notoriety among peers, according to interviews with more than a dozen people who have worked with her, including … Read more