Dr Anthony Fauci said he was not certain that the coronavirus came from animals
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The leading expert on infectious diseases in the United States has called for a full investigation into what happened in China at the outset of the pandemic, saying that he is not convinced that Covid-19 developed naturally.
“Certainly, the people who investigated it say it likely was the emergence from an animal reservoir that then infected individuals, but it could have been something else and we need to find that out,” Dr Anthony Fauci told a PolitiFact event this month. “So, you know, that’s the reason why I said I’m perfectly in favour of any investigation that looks into the origin of the virus.”
Little Island, New York
The public park on New York City’s Hudson River finally opened on May 21 nearly seven years after plans were unveiled, thanks to billionaire media mogul Barry Diller, whose $260 million donation has further transformed the once-derelict West Side of Manhattan.
Kevin Spacey will play a detective in an upcoming Italian movie called, "L'uomo Che Disegnò Dio," his first film since being accused of sexual misconduct in 2017.
Two jail guards, Michael Thomas and Tova Noel who admitted to falsifying records on the night Jeffrey Epstein killed himself on their watch, won a federal judge's approval on Tuesday for an agreement to end the criminal case against them and let them avoid prison.
Yahya Sinwar, Palestinian leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, second left, holds a child in a soldier costume, on stage with a weapon for the cameras, at a rally of supporters days after a cease-fire was reached in an 11-day war between Gaza's Hamas rulers and Israel, Monday. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Employees of an assembly factory are seen reflected in the mirror of a bus as they receive a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Reuters/Jose Luis Gonzalez
Grimbergen, Belgium
Father Karel Stautemas and Abbot Erik toast after blessing beer tanks at the abbey of Grimbergen, which is returning to brewing after a break of more than 200 years. Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters
Bill Cosby refuses therapy for sexual offenders and denied parole
Cosby, now 83, would have become eligible for parole on 25 September after completing the three-year minimum term of his sentence. He was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison and designated a sexually violent predator on 25 September 2018, after being convicted earlier in the year of the rape of Andrea Constand, his former friend at Temple University, in 2004.
Inverie, UK
The Old Forge pub on the Knoydart peninsular in the Scottish Highlands, Britain’s most remote watering hole. Photograph: Andy Buchanan/AFP/Getty Images
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Carrie Johnson pose for a photo in the garden of 10 Downing Street after their private wedding ceremony
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Photographer Katherine Fawssett More than a thousand people live afloat on the tidal Thames in London, between Teddington Lock and the Thames Barrier.
‘We’ve been together now for 60 years, 34 on our dear old Dutch. We didn’t have any great goal that we wanted to live on the river; really we wanted to get out of London. We didn’t know we were going to spend the next 34 years of our lives living on the Thames’
Larry Bustetter, left, an Air Force veteran, and Henry Knebel, an Army veteran, salute after placing flags at Los Angeles National Cemetery on Saturday.
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Researchers are working on a pilot program backed by Russia’s Rosatom Corp. to inject rhino horns with radioactive material, a tactic that could discourage consumption and make it easier to detect illegal trade.
Poachers killed 394 rhinos in South Africa for their horns last year, government data shows, with public and private game reserves lacking the resources needed to monitor vast tracts of land and protect the animals that live there.
