Month: August 2021

A suggestion from Scotland’s first minister that the UK Covid vaccine roll-out will shortly be extended to 16 and 17 year-olds leads several of Wednesday’s papers.

A Filipino resident in the United Arab Emirates who tested positive for COVID-19 twice – once during pregnancy and once during labor – has given birth to healthy twin girls.

VOA says a Pentagon police officer was killed during an attack at the Pentagon public transit hub Tuesday, gunfire was exchanged and there were multiple injuries.

The Daily Express says: Team GB secured another sailing gold medal in the Women’s 470. Hannah Mills and Eilidh McIntyre put in a brilliant performance and crossed the line in fifth to take home gold. Mills is now the most successful Olympic sailor of all time.

TRT World says the Turkish government has said a vast majority of forest fires that have ravaged the south of the country for almost a week have been contained.

Aljazeera says Ahmadullah Azadani climbed on the roof of his house and awaited something that would have been unthinkable in the city even a week earlier.

The Daily Express says: NICOLA STURGEON is in the last chance saloon and has a “point of vulnerability”, polling expert Sir John Curtice has claimed.

Arab News says Australia’s New South Wales reported one of the country’s youngest deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday, as daily infections lingered near a 16-month high.

BORIS JOHNSON has been handed a three-point blueprint that the Treasury can put into action in a move that could firmly cement the UK’s economic lead over the European Union.

BBC News says an emotional Sky Brown broke down in tears after becoming Great Britain’s youngest Olympic medal winner of all time.