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Essex University has confirmed a “small number” of staff and students have tested positive for coronavirus.

Essex University has confirmed a “small number” of staff and students have tested positive for coronavirus.

Ayesha Vardag, who runs law firm Vardags in London's Old Bailey, wrote staff a lengthy email titled 'Attire and image - dress code and beyond'.

Hopes of a Brexit deal by next month were put at 50/50 yesterday as No 10 said the EU had a 'more constructive' attitude but still had not bridged significant gaps

The Tory MP got married last Saturday, but when she first realised she was going to have to cull her wedding guest list, to comply with Covid rules, she worried about how to break the news to friends.

ROBERT HARRIS: The obituary columns will remind you that the wartime generation went through far harder trials than anything we are experiencing and lived to see a better world.

Startling research presented to the UK Government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) will further increase pressure on Boris Johnson.

Labour's bullish Welsh Health Secretary Vaughan Gething claimed Britain's next 'Lighthouse Laboratory' in Newport, south Wales, would 'support our Test, Trace, Protect strategy'.

This week Bel answers a question about a daughter who wonders if she should be her family's shoulder to cry on

Experts said millions of Britons a day could be getting tested by now instead of a paltry 250,000. A testing lab that was supposed to open in August has yet to process a single test.

DR MICHAEL MOSLEY: I am extremely thankful the problem was picked up so early, before raised blood sugars could do extensive damage to my blood vessels and nerves

BEL MOONEY: This year may well go down as the one in which Britain faced its biggest danger since war. Who would have thought that Britons would become slaves to fear?

China this week blocked the Wikimedia Foundation's application for observer status at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations (UN) organization that develops international treaties on copyright, IP, trademarks, patents and related issues. As a result of the block, the Foundation's application for observer status has been suspended and will be reconsidered at a future WIPO meeting in 2021. Wikimedia Foundation: China was the only country to raise objections to the accreditation of the Wikimedia Foundation as an official observer. Their last-minute objections claimed Wikimedia's application was incomplete, and suggested that the Wikimedia Foundation was carrying out political activities via the volunteer-led Wikimedia Taiwan chapter. The United Kingdom and the United States voiced support for the Foundation's application. WIPO's work, which shapes international laws and policies that affect the sharing of free knowledge, impacts Wikipedia's ability to provide hundreds of millions of people with information in their own languages. The Wikimedia Foundation's absence from these meetings further separates those people from global events that shape their access to knowledge.

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Developers renovating a historic hotel in St. Petersburg visited by John F. Kennedy have been startled by discoveries unearthed as walls have been taken down and wallpaper peeled away.

Michael Ilseman, an engineer on the Swift Standard Library team at Apple, writes: In June, Apple introduced Swift System, a new library for Apple platforms that provides idiomatic interfaces to system calls and low-level currency types. Today, I'm excited to announce that we're open-sourcing System and adding Linux support! Our vision is for System to eventually act as the single home for low-level system interfaces for all supported Swift platforms.

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Oh sure, there are plenty of flaws in those packages though not even one in ten are anything to worry about

For the past few years, the security of JavaScript software packages available through the Node Package Manager, or npm, has been the subject of skepticism as a result of blunders, brouhahas, and tepid countermeasures.…