Why China’s bid to woo the world with vaccines is backfiring

China’s Covid-19 vaccines were developed fast, rolled out rapidly around the world and proclaimed by President Xi Jinping as a ‘global public good’ to showcase his country’s benevolence. Hundreds of millions of doses have been despatched abroad after being sold to 28 countries and given away free to more than 60 poorer or strategically important … Read more

Australia’s Covid exiles: THIRTY Australian cricket stars are stranded in India

More than 30 Australian cricket players, coaches and commentators have been left stranded in India after Sydney made it illegal for them to return, threatening jail. It comes after stars Adam Zampa and Kane Richardson were able to arrive in Melbourne on Thursday on a commercial flight from Doha via a loophole. Prime Minister Scott Morrison … Read more

Australia’s Covid exiles: THIRTY Australian cricket stars are stranded in India

Two star Australian cricketers have escaped Covid-ravaged India via a travel loophole just days before it will be made illegal for the 34 remaining players, coaches and commentators to return. Adam Zampa and Kane Richardson touched down in Melbourne late Thursday afternoon via a commercial flight from Qatar, exposing a gap in Scott Morrison’s travel … Read more

Singapore has taken over from New Zealand as being the best place to be during the Covid pandemic

Singapore has overtaken New Zealand as being the best place to live during the pandemic thanks to a rapid vaccine roll-out, new analysis shows. Brazil, which has one of the highest per capita death rates in the world and a glacial vaccine programme, was ranked the lowest in Bloomberg’s Covid Resilience table. The United Kingdom, … Read more

Singapore has taken over from New Zealand as being the best place to be during the Covid pandemic

Singapore has overtaken New Zealand as being the best place to live during the pandemic thanks to a rapid vaccine roll-out, new analysis shows. Brazil, which has one of the highest per capita death rates in the world and a glacial vaccine programme, was ranked the lowest in Bloomberg’s Covid Resilience table. The United Kingdom, … Read more

Wreckage found in hunt for lost Indonesian submarine: Search teams discover items from sunken vessel

Wreckage has been found in the hunt for the lost Indonesian submarine with 53 crew members after search teams discovered items from the sunken vessel, said the country’s navy. Rescuers found several items including parts of a torpedo straightener, a grease bottle believed to be used to oil the periscope and prayer rugs from the … Read more

Fears grow for crew of Indonesian submarine as oxygen supplies onboard would now have run out

More than 50 sailors aboard a missing Indonesian Navy submarine lost in the Bali Sea are feared dead as the vessel is believed to have run out of oxygen. Rescue teams had been battling against time today to find the 44-year-old KRI Nanggala-402 which vanished on Wednesday as it prepared to conduct a torpedo drill. … Read more

Missing Indonesian submarine has few hours of oxygen left as rescue teams hone in on radar contact

Oxygen reserves on a missing Indonesian submarine are down to the final few hours as officials from the country desperately hone in on a radar signal detected from an unidentified object today. The ramped-up hunt comes as Australia and the United States are set to join the search off the coast of Bali where the … Read more

Missing Indonesian submarine has few hours of oxygen left as rescue teams hone in on radar contact

Oxygen reserves on a missing Indonesian submarine are down to the final few hours as officials from the country desperately hone in on a radar signal detected from an unidentified object today. The ramped-up hunt comes as Australia and the United States are set to join the search off the coast of Bali where the … Read more

Submarine that went missing in 2,300ft waters off Bali could be too deep to save says navy chief

A submarine that went missing in waters near Bali on Wednesday may have ‘broken up’ after dropping below 2,300ft a navy chief has warned, as fears grow the vessel and its 53 sailors could have sunk too low to save.  The German-made KRI Nanggala-402 was conducting a torpedo drill in waters 60 miles north of … Read more