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What is coronavirus and how worried should we be? What are the symptoms caused by the virus from Wuhan in China, how is it transmitted from one person to another, and at what point should you see a doctor? Coronavirus: how to protect yourself from infection Sarah Boseley , Hannah Devlin and Martin Belam Thu 30 Jan 2020 12.19 GMT Last modified on Thu 30 Jan 2020 13.32 GMT Play Video 3:41 Coronavirus: what you need to know – video explainer What is the virus causing illness in Wuhan? It is a novel coronavirus – that is to say, a member of the coronavirus family that has never been encountered before. Like other coronaviruses, it has come from animals. Many of those infected either worked or frequently shopped in the Huanan seafood wholesale market in the centre of the Chinese city, which also sold live and newly slaughtered animals. New and troubling viruses usually originate in animal hosts. Ebola and flu are examples. What other ...

Exhibition at Jewish Museum of Belgium traces backgrounds of heroes including Superman, Batman and Captain America Jennifer Rankin A 1977 reprise of Superman’s fight with the Nazis, inspired by his creators. Photograph: DC Comics It was February 1940 when two American friends dreamt up how Superman would stop the second world war. “Put me down! You are hurting me,” Adolf Hitler protests to the man of steel. But Superman has other ideas. Seizing the Nazi dictator, Superman shoots into the air, faster than any plane, to pick up Josef Stalin in Moscow. Next stop Geneva to drop off the “power mad scoundrels” at the League of Nations, where they are found guilty of “unprovoked aggression against defenseless countries”. The cartoon strip How Superman Would End the War appeared in Look Magazine, almost two years before the US entered the conflict against Nazi Germany as allies of the Soviet Union. At the time, few knew that the creators...

I have  many experiences of people using and abusing the expression "I am sorry" .... it is as if you are allowed to do all sorts of things and then all you do to districate yourself is say those magic words ,I  imagine if   Anders Behring Breivik   said "I am awfully sorry , i dont know what got into me when i gunned down 70 people in a youth center ( I did prepare everything before hand .... but perhaps it was the other side of me that did it .....)  I am very sorry  about that ......

It is sad to see Iran going downhill in this way .... I am not talking about the general being made a marter or about the killing of 176 civilians and some Iranian Canadians in the plane crash in January , but i am talking about more sanctions coming into the country to make life even more difficult for the normal people ..... and i have been wondering How Lucky for both sides (ie for the Americans and the Iranian hardliners) ..... aren't religious Shiite Iranians lucky that the US is "nice" enough to allow them to visit those holy moley shrines in Iraq free of charge ? And i have heard that the American troops there give people free cocacola ....... It is extraordinary that the Americans are not using this pulse ...... Perhaps they still havent noticed that the hearts and the minds of those who shout "down with etc" is in those shrines and this explains the Iranian aggressive attitudes about Iraq (which they feel is their territory because they a...