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China’s Wuhan city will test its 12 million residents for the coronavirus after confirming its first domestic cases of the highly transmissible Delta variant. Wuhan, where the virus first emerged in late 2019, had reported no local coronavirus cases since mid-May last year but on Monday authorities confirmed three cases …

Google workers will need to be vaccinated before returning to the office, the US tech giant has said. The policy will begin at its US campuses within weeks and then be rolled out globally for its 144,000 employees. Many firms are weighing up their stances on vaccinations. Publisher Bloomsbury said …

Facebook has warned that it expects revenue growth to slow down “significantly” in the second half of 2021. The tech giant saw revenue rise to $29bn (£21bn) in the three months to 30 June, up from $18.69bn last year. But it said that sales would slow “as we lap periods of increasingly …

 Dubai: Kuwait on Tuesday banned unvaccinated citizens from traveling abroad as of August 1, the government communication office reported. The decision exempts children under 16 years and those with a health ministry certificate saying they cannot be vaccinated. Also pregnant women, who get a pregnancy proof certificate from authorities, are …

Josephine Myrtle Corbin was the first person born with two private organs and four legs, in Tennessee in 1868. Josephine and Mary were supposed to be twins, but they were conjoined from the waist down. Her disease is called Dipygus, and she has an uncommon type of conjoined twinning. She …

• Seb Dance has described the LGBT bill as backward • Sam George questioned why the MEP has issues about legalizing polygamy • The UK politician evaded Sam George‘s question and decided to continue his agenda A UK politician Seb Dance who took on the Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram was unable to respond to Sam …

A UK politician, Seb Dance, has hit back at Ningo Prampram lawmaker Sam George over his hard-line stance on LGBT rights in Ghana. The opposition lawmaker has been on a Twitter feud with celebrities and some notable Ghanaians since Friday night over his extreme view of the LGBTQ community. The social …

• Nelson Maxwell Acquah has not been arrested by Interpol • His name was placed on a “stop list” but has since been removed • He is currently home with his family Nelson Maxwell Acquah, a Ghanaian PhD student, has denied allegations that he has been arrested by Interpol at …

Ashanti Smith, from West Sussex, has died weeks after her 18th birthday  Suffered from ‘Benjamin Button’ disease which left her with body of 100-year-old Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome saw her age eight years for every year  Teenager told her mother Phoebe: ‘You’ve got to let me go’ before dying   A teenager …

• Maxwell Nelson Acquah has been arrested by Interpol • He was withdrawn from his PhD studies following allegations of fraud • He was forced to resign from his student leadership position Maxwell Nelson Acquah, a Ghanaian student leader at Stirling University in the UK, has been arrested by Interpol …