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It could take up to a year for Australian biotech company CSL to develop the capability to make a Covid-19 vaccine if a non-protein-based version proves safe and effective, the country’s industry minister has said. Karen Andrews said CSL would be able to immediately start making a protein-based vaccine, but...Read Full Story COVID-19 VaccineBiotechnologyMessenger RNACoronavirus Disease 2019University Of QueenslandAstraZenecaChinese Super LeagueUniversity Of OxfordProduction CompanyABCCSLNon-protein VaccinesAustralian Manufacturing12-month TimeframeMRNAGreg HuntKaren Andrews

The women fought with each other inside the vehicle. The driver pulled away from the hold around her neck. Then she turned to hit her attacker. She threw open the door to make her escape, ending the simulated attack. 'This one is too strong for me,' the attacker said, smiling...Read Full Story  Coronavirus Disease 2019TaxicabCOVID-19 PandemicWomanToyotaUgandaAssociated PressGovernment JobsFedExInterpolSusan ShandDiva TaxiGillian KobusingyeAlice BryantTracy Abola

As with the UK’s efforts to join the Common Market in the early Sixties, the country most likely to scupper a post-Brexit deal with the EU is France. Back then it was President Charles de Gaulle’s objection to this country’s membership that wrecked the hopes of both Tory and Labour governments. More than 50 years later, Emmanuel Macron is shaping up to be the “Monsieur Non” de nos jours. With an agreement now tantalisingly in sight, the French president is threatening to veto anything that disadvantages his country’s fishermen in Normandy and Brittany.Read Full Story BrexitFrench PresidentLabourFranceEuropean UnionUnited KingdomNormandyEUPolitical RhetoricEuropean GovernmentsBrittanyPresident MacronCountryWidespread ProtestsUK WatersEmmanuel MacronCharles De GaulleBoris JohnsonEdward Heath

Post-war Britain, a US secretary of state once said, had lost an empire but failed to find a role. Now, Brexit Britain has rejected its modern role and needs to decide how it should behave on the world stage. The likely election of Joe Biden, and the looming deadline for Britain to agree its relationship with the European Union, put this issue into sharp focus. Britain will soon leave the EU’s single market and customs union, and Biden, ministers worry, will be a lukewarm ally at best.Read Full Story European UnionEuropean CouncilCommercial PolicyChinaRussiaNATOUnited StatesBarack ObamaUS Foreign PolicyEU LeadersGovernment PolicyEconomic PolicySuezUNNatoJoe BidenDominic Raab

Kylie Moore-Gilbert, the British-Australian academic who has been detained in Iran for the past two years, has been moved from the notorious desert prison of Qarchak to an unknown location. Her move was first reported by the Iranian Association of Human Rights Activists, who said that she was moved, along...Read Full Story TehranDesertAcademyKylie MinogueKylie Moore-GilbertMelbourneEvin PrisonQomIslamic StudiesQarchak PrisonEspionageDr Moore-GilbertAugust

A New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer was suspended without pay pending an investigation into a video that appeared to show him using his patrol car's loudspeaker to say 'Trump 2020,' NBC News reported. In a video posted on Twitter by reporter Talia Lavin, an man off camera dares...Read Full Story Police CarLoudspeakerNBC NewsOfficerVideoTwitterNypdLaw Enforcement OfficersLaw OfficersPolice CommissionerCameraNYPD OfficersManMessagePresident TrumpDonald TrumpBill De BlasioDermot Shea

Hope Hicks, one of President Trump's closest aides, threw up her hands up into the shape of a 'Y' as she danced her way back to the stairs of Air Force One. Grinning to her left was Trump campaign adviser David Bossie, who was breaking out the same moves — albeit with less precision — as the disco beat for the Village People anthem 'YMCA' pounded over the sound system on the tarmac in Pensacola, Fla.Read Full Story Trump CampaignCoronavirus Disease 2019DemocraticWhite HouseSupermanYMCAFloridaRaceEarly VotingNight TimeSuper TrumpPresident TrumpPollsCampaigningDrive-in RalliesDonald TrumpJoe BidenDavid BossieHunterHope Hicks

Nearly one in five scientists in Australia are planning to leave the profession permanently, according to a new survey, which also reveals a 17% gender pay gap among those who responded. The survey, based on answers from 1,464 scientists, provides an insight into challenges in the science workforce at a...Read Full Story Gender Pay GapAustraliansWomen In ScienceSTEMResearch ScientistsSurvey RespondentsHealth ResearchBusiness ResearchAnnalese JackJill McCabeKatie HavelbergMisha SchubertFemale ScientistsAustralian UniversitiesFertility ScientistsJill MccabeScott MorrisonJosh Frydenberg

As most of the world shelters from the novel coronavirus, tens of thousands of brave protesters have been marching through the streets of Minsk and Bangkok for the past several months, defying water cannons, rubber bullets and the risk of imprisonment — or disease. They are demanding the ouster of their autocratic rulers — Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus and Prayuth Chan-ocha of Thailand — and hoping that, like the “people power” movements of dozens of other countries, they will achieve democracy.Read Full Story BelarusThailandPrayut Chan-o-chaSouth KoreaMinskBangkokDemocratic ChangeUkrainePeople PowerWater CannonChinaUnited StatesPolitical ProtestsPolitical RepressionNew DemocracyAlexander LukashenkoVladimir PutinDonald TrumpHosni MubarakXi JinpingJoe BidenBarack ObamaSaad HaririJackson Diehl

The West African nation of Guinea is bracing for more post-election unrest after the electoral commission Thursday declared preliminary results showing President Alpha Conde was reelected for a third term. As Marco Simoncelli reports from Conakry. Videographer: Davide Lemmi.Read Full Story GuineaElection CommissionWest AfricaElectoral CommissionOpposition ChallengingConakryDavide LemmiPresident Alpha CondeAlpha CondéMarco Simoncelli