Coronavirus: Tenerife hotel with hundreds of guests locked down
A hotel in Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands has been locked down after a visiting Italian doctor tested positive for coronavirus.
Hundreds of guests at the H10 Costa Adeje Palace Hotel were initially told to stay in their rooms as medical tests were carried out, Spanish media report.
The doctor is reportedly from the Lombardy region, where Italian authorities are battling an outbreak.
Global cases of the virus have passed 80,000, the vast majority in China.
Iran, one of the worst-affected nations outside China, on Tuesday said its deputy health minister, Iraj Harirchi, had tested positive for the virus.
Academics refused permanent UK visas because of field trips abroad
Ebola volunteering in Guinea and gender research in Bangladesh fall foul of hostile environment laws
When Dr Nazia Hussein spent six months researching class and gender identity in Bangladesh for her PhD at Warwick University in 2009, she had no idea that, a decade later, the Home Office would use this to refuse her application for permanent residency.
Hussein, a Bangladeshi expert on gender, race and religion, now a lecturer at the University of Bristol, was “absolutely shocked” when her application for indefinite leave to remain (ILR) was rejected last year on the grounds that she had spent too many days out of the country during the 10-year application period. This was despite the fact she had submitted clear evidence that her PhD research constituted essential fieldwork and an unavoidable and legitimate absence.
Trump news – live: President snubs vegetarian delicacies amid lavish treatment on India trip as protesters killed in anti-Muslim riots
Joe SommerladTrump apparently risked putting his trade talks with Modi in jeopardy by refusing to eat any of the vegetarian delicacies – notably broccoli samosas - laid on for him at the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad on Monday afternoon.
The president is notorious for his bad diet - favouring steaks slathered in ketchup, hamburgers, KFC buckets and Oreo cookies - and declined the traditional Gujarati options served at high tea yesterday as he and Melania vistied the shrine to Mahatma Gandhi.
Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak dies at 91
After suffering a long illness, former leader dies after ruling the country from 1981 to 2011.
Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's president for almost 30 years who stepped down after a popular revolution in 2011, has died. He was 91.
Mubarak served as Egypt's fourth president starting in 1981 until his ouster in what became known as the Arab Spring revolution.
He was jailed for years after the uprising, but was freed in 2017 after being acquitted of most charges. The acquittal stunned many Egyptians, thousands of whom poured into central Cairo to show their anger against the court.
Pakistani Christian Asia Bibi asks France for political asylum
Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian woman who spent years on death row after a 2010 conviction of blasphemy, said Monday that she was seeking political asylum from the French government.
“My great desire is to live in France,” Bibi said in an interview with RTL radio, her first trip to France since fleeing with her family to Canada in 2018.
Her visit comes a few weeks after the publication of her book “Enfin Libre!” (Finally Free) in French last month, with an English version due in September.
21 of the world's 30 cities with the worst air pollution are in India
Updated 1203 GMT (2003 HKT) February 25, 2020
India has once again topped an annual list of cities with the worst air quality in the world, according to a new report, while Chinese cities have continued to show improvements from the previous year.
Twenty-one of the world's 30 cities with the worst air pollution are in India, according to data compiled in IQAir AirVisual's 2019 World Air Quality Report, with six in the top ten.
Ghaziabad, a satellite city of the capital New Delhi in northern Uttar Pradesh state, is ranked as the world's most polluted city, with an average PM 2.5 concentration measurement of 110.2 in 2019. That's far more than double the level which the US Environmental Protection Agency regards as healthy -- it's nine times more.
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