The Hong Kong government is overhauling school curricula and backing a $100 million project to write a chronicle of the city, in what critics fear is an attempt to turn history into pro-China propaganda. https://t.co/nOskMYKUPX

The two-dose Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech is protecting recipients about as well in wide actual use as it did in clinical trials, according to a new large-scale study from Israel. https://t.co/IQtk5CZyzy

The hope brought by the arrival of the first vaccines in South America is hardening into anger as inoculation campaigns have spiraled into scandal, cronyism and corruption. https://t.co/omFSXFlCYo

A website in Japan collects anonymous noise pollution gripes about neighbors and pins every grievance on an interactive map. Some parents find it troubling and fear a growing divide between families with children and neighbors who cannot stand them. https://t.co/Ua0c8GTfez

RT @IKershner: In a new memoir, Galia Oz, daughter of the late Amos Oz, celebrated author and liberal Israeli icon, accuses him of a routine of sadistic abuse. 
"Every family is different. Yes, yes, even happy families," wrote a grandson in defense of everyone involved. 
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A program to deliver vaccines to poor countries is under way, but the gap with rich countries is widening https://t.co/IE97vhW8Q2

“It’s not like previously healthy kids are completely scot-free here," says an author of a big new study on the 2 main ways children can get very sick from Covid. The study finds important differences in the 2 conditions and in kids who get them.  https://t.co/mDcU09QlfR

A Chinese divorce court ordered a husband to pay his wife more than $7,700 for the housework she performed during five years of marriage https://t.co/0lA2NSwjj9

Politics in Georgia, a country of just over four million people in the South Caucasus, have always been sharp-elbowed. But the arrest of an opposition leader, Nika Melia, suggested an alarming pivot to more repressive policies by the government. https://t.co/JJZYn4ifID

Afghanistan, whose citizens have largely brushed aside the coronavirus pandemic as exaggerated or an outright hoax, is now preparing to distribute its first batch of vaccines. https://t.co/Y7eox53Q7W

“They need to know that, after 1997, Hong Kong is part of China. They only need to know about that. We don’t want them to analyze anything out of that.” https://t.co/75H3aNZ1ns

Imagine if you took a 3-D globe and deflated it. On each side of your flat disk, you'd have one of the two hemispheres. This makes for a more accurate world map. https://t.co/oV0S2jj7Px

There are 2 main ways kids can get very sick from Covid. A big new study finds differences in symptoms & who's at risk. Most kids survive but, says a study author: "We can’t say 100 percent for sure that everything’s going to be normal long-term." https://t.co/jQsE1K797E

“He had to live with all the pain of the Indigenous people" in Colombia, Luis Fernando Arias's father said. “But he wasn’t scared. It gave him strength to fight." Mr. Arias, a prominent Indigenous leader, is dead at 41 of complications of Covid-19. https://t.co/qKgS1eVF3W

The Hong Kong government is overhauling school curricula and backing a $100 million project to write a chronicle of the city, in what critics fear is an attempt to turn history into pro-China propaganda https://t.co/afbFD3r7qv

A program to supply vaccine to poor countries has started delivering the first of 2 billion doses. It isn't nearly enough. https://t.co/S9QSReEidY

Deaths in Japan fell last year for the first time in more than a decade, a jarring contrast to the huge death tolls suffered by many countries in the pandemic and a signal that Japan’s coronavirus measures have had positive spillover effects. https://t.co/fNnDZ8yMJN

Hong Kong is slashing instruction time for a subject that teaches students about contemporary Chinese history. While students can still discuss social problems, “we don’t really need to look into the origins of the issue," a government adviser said. https://t.co/OeS0asqbR9

A Chinese divorce court  ordered a husband to pay his wife more than $7,700 for the housework she performed during five years of marriage https://t.co/EE1xuCTZZt

Many of us grew up with highly distorted world maps. Here's a new way of seeing planet Earth in two dimensions. https://t.co/PFC6b6SzHe