United Kingdom Goats on Zoom: UK farm finds new income by livening up video calls Video meetings? Meh. One English farm takes Zoombombing to a new level: hiring out goats to make surprise appearances on conference calls. 02/02/2021
no comment Cape Town residents break beach ban to protest COVID lockdown South Africa has reported more than 43,000 deaths due to COVID-19. 31/01/2021
no comment Clandestine classes as Paris karate lovers defy COVID restrictions Meet the Parisians who are doing clandestine sports classes to preserve their mental health amid the COVID-19 restrictions. 29/01/2021
no comment Hong Kong puts 10,000 people into lockdown - the city's first The lockdown in the Yau Tsim Mong district will be in place until every resident is tested - something expected to take around 48 hours. 23/01/2021
Germany Which two German words were judged the ugliest of 2020? Each January, a jury of German linguists picks out what it calls the "non-word" of the year: a word that’s ugly because of what it means. 12/01/2021
United Kingdom English boy raises money for charity by camping out in his garden Since March, an 11-year-old boy in England has been sleeping out in his garden for a charitable cause, raising over €100,000 for a local hospice. 01/01/2021
world news Lockdown, social distancing, quarantini: The 2020 pandemic lexicon From talk of flattening the curve to doomscrolling: how the coronavirus pandemic hijacked our vocabulary. 31/12/2020
