#lasting-impact

#lasting-impact

People across the UK have been urged to share their experiences of how the coronavirus pandemic affected them to help shape the Covid-19 Inquiry's recommendations.Every Story Matters aims to aid understanding of the full picture of what happened and what more needs to be done to ensure the UK is better prepared in the future, inquiry chairwoman Baroness Heather Hallett said.

The Prince of Wales has made an online call to some of the people dealing with devastating floods in Australia to say make sure that you're all looking out for yourselves as well as each other.William offered his support in a video call with a group of people, including small business owners, frontline responders plus local community and indigenous people's leaders, who represent some of the regions of Australia recently hit by serious flooding.

The case had been called Australia's trial of the century.And though it centered on a claim of defamation, it grappled with a more consequential question: Was the country's most decorated living soldier a war criminal?On Thursday, a judge effectively found that the answer was yes.Four years after the soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, sued three newspapers that had accused him of killing unarmed Afghan prisoners in cold blood, the judge ruled against him in his defamation case, finding that the newspapers had proved their accounts of his actions were substantially true.

Senator Bernie Sanders, who has roundly criticized former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz over the company's blatant attempts to shut down its own workers' unionization efforts, finally got to question Schultz during a Senate hearing Wednesday.Schultz, currently the company's chairman emeritus, is testifying before Sanders and the rest of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee during a hearing titled No Company Is Above the Law: The Need to End Illegal Union Busting at Starbucks, on Wednesday morning.