Covid: Antibodies 'fall rapidly after infection'
By James Gallagher
Health and science correspondent
Levels of protective antibodies in people wane "quite rapidly" after coronavirus infection, say researchers.
Antibodies are a key part of our immune defences and stop the virus from getting inside the body's cells.
The Imperial College London team found the number of people testing positive for antibodies has fallen by 26% between June and September.
Global survey shows widespread disapproval of Covid response
People in most of 25 countries think governments failed to act well or quickly
People in most of 25 countries around the world think governments and leaders failed to respond either well or fast enough to the coronavirus crisis, a new global survey shows.
YouGov’s globalism survey of about 26,000 people in countries from Australia to Sweden, designed with the Guardian and carried out by the YouGov-Cambridge Globalism Project between July and August, before the second wave hit in Europe and elsewhere, showed striking variations in approval for governments’ handling of the pandemic, which has killed nearly 1.1 million people.
A record four in five respondents in Denmark, which locked down very early in March as the first wave hit and has managed to limit Covid deaths to 119 per million inhabitants, thought their government had done very or fairly well.
Pakistan blast: Children among seven dead and scores injured by explosion at Peshawar madrassa
‘Unknown people had planted explosives in a plastic bag’ during class at religious school, police say, with two teachers and ‘many’ children among victims
At least seven have been killed and more than 80 injured in a suspected bombing inside a religious school in Peshawar, Pakistan, hospital officials said.
The explosion ripped through the busy madrassa in Peshawar's Dir Colony on Tuesday morning. The victims are believed to include two teachers and many children, including four under the age of 13, who were studying inside the school at the time.
Police said they were still investigating the cause of the blast, but the blast is believed to have been a deliberate act. No group has yet claimed responsibility, however.
Civilians suffer amid Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
Armenia and Azerbaijan are once more fighting over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Scores of civilians have been killed in recent weeks, and many have fled. Julia Hahn reports from the Azerbaijani town of Barda.
In early October, a missile struck Ilgar Farzaliyev's home. The ensuing fire burned his house to the ground, and with it went most of his possessions. His silverware, glasses, family photos and much else — gone forever.
Standing in what was once the entrance hall, Farzaliyev glances around the ruins of his former home, where he had lived for 35 years.
Cheese and cosmetics: Stores in Muslim countries boycott French products
Over the last few days, more and more countries in the Middle East have called to boycott French products. That call was reiterated on October 26 by Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The political row started when French President Emmanuel Macron pledged to defend the right to caricature the Prophet Mhammed in the name of freedom of expression. Videos taken in Qatar, Jordan and Kuwait show empty shelves in supermarkets after companies withdrew French products in the wake of his comments.
"We will not give up our cartoons," declared Emmanuel Macron on October 21, during the tribute ceremony for the teacher Samuel Paty, who was murdered on October 16 after he had shown a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed to his students. Macron's vow to protect the country's cherished secular values at all costs provoked anger across the Muslim world.
'Blood lust, killings, cover-ups': Report describes Australia's 'Abu Ghraib' moment
By Nick McKenzie and Chris Masters
Warning: Disturbing content
Australian special forces soldiers were fuelled by "blood lust" when they tortured and executed prisoners in Afghanistan and then covered up their actions, according to a briefing handed to military chiefs which likened the conduct of some troops to that of American soldiers in Abu Ghraib.
The confidential report was commissioned in 2016 by then chief of army Angus Campbell and is the most detailed and significant internal military dossier to be aired about the special forces' war crimes scandal that took place during the war in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2015. It was the catalyst for the soon-to-be-completed four-year Inspector-General inquiry into war crimes by senior judge Paul Brereton.
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