MPs vote to block vaccine for politicians

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MPs vote to block vaccine for politicians

MPs have voted against approving a health committee report that recommended exempting them from mandatory vaccination in order to have their children vaccinated. The 479-45 vote in favour of the amendment, by the health…

An abandoned town in Bosnia has been left to collapse

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An abandoned town in Bosnia has been left to collapse

Serbs are kept in the dark about the fate of the bucolic village of Novo Banja, where a sewage treatment plant to treat Novo Banja’s waste has failed. Nobody seems to know when they’ll…

Chinese government turmoil hits SenseTime investment

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Chinese government turmoil hits SenseTime investment

Image copyright C.S. Yeung The public debut of SenseTime’s facial recognition technology may be denied to wary investors due to tensions between the US and China. SenseTime has been installed at Shanghai’s National People’s…

Traffic-light junction road map

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Traffic-light junction road map

T ET ET ET CE CTA 1. May this court approve the application of Kwesi Amike, an engineer, on behalf of Derbyshire County Council, to construct a new approximately 25m x 30m dual-carriageway off-road…

Pope: boat people are brought to freedom

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Pope: boat people are brought to freedom

By Nick Schifrin BBC News, Athens Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Pope Francis decried a “shipwreck of civilisation” as he arrived on the Greek island of Lesbos in a church…