Newstag UK

Employers say they can't lure back workers. Governors are ending unemployment benefits. Is the work ethic dying, or is it because a living wage is hard to find?

An Israeli airstrike destroyed a high-rise building in Gaza City that housed offices of The Associated Press and other media on Saturday, the latest step by the military to silence reporting from the territory amid its battle with the militant group Hamas.

Israeli air raids continued on Saturday in Gaza, after one raid killed at least 10 Palestinians in the deadliest single strike since the battle with Gaza's militant Hamas rulers erupted earlier this week. (May 15)

Palestinians have begun gathering across the occupied West Bank to mark the anniversary of the displacement of hundreds of thousands of refugees from what is now Israel during the 1948 war surrounding its creation. (May 15)

Back-to-back tornadoes have killed 12 people in central and eastern China and left more than 300 others injured, authorities said on Saturday. Eight people died in the inland city of Wuhan on Friday night and four others in the town of Shengze, about 400 kilometres east in Jiangsu province, local governments said.

The San Diego Zoo welcomed the birth of a female golden takin last month. It was the first of this takin subspecies to ever have been born in the Western Hemisphere. The female calf is named Mei Ling, her name means 'beautiful antelope' in Mandarin. The golden takin is an endangered goat-antelope.

China landed a spacecraft on Mars for the first time on Saturday, a technically challenging feat more difficult than a moon landing, in the latest advance for its ambitious goals in space. Plans call for a rover to stay in the lander for a few days of diagnostic tests before rolling down a ramp to explore an icy area of Mars known as Utopia Planitia.

Chelsea manager Emma Hayes says winning the club's first Women's Champions League would be an "incredible achievement" but insists success is also about inspiring the next generation of young women.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) called on Friday for rich nations to delay COVID-19 vaccinations of children and donate doses to lower-income countries, warning that the second year of the pandemic could be deadlier. "I n a handful of rich countries, which bought up the majority of the vaccine supply, lower risk groups are now being vaccinated," WHO director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters from Geneva.

Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel will face Leicester twice in the next three days, once on Saturday at Wembley and once on Tuesday in the league. During the FA cup final pre-match press conference on Friday in London, Tuchel described the games as 'two finals.

A Chinese botanist has devoted her career to saving and cultivating over 1,100 rare and endangered plants and protecting biodiversity in central Hubei Province's Three Gorges Dam area, even risking life and limb.

Swiss health workers busy fighting the pandemic in Geneva University Hospitals are being encouraged to unwind with a computer game that offers not only distraction but also knowledge to battle Covid-19 in real life.