Daily Archives: 08/23/2021


Igor Vovkovinskiy, Tallest Man in US, Dies in Minnesota

Igor Vovkovinskiy, the tallest man in the United States, has died in Minnesota. He was 38.His family said the Ukrainian-born Vovkovinskiy died of heart disease on Friday at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. His mother, Svetlana Vovkovinska, an ICU nurse …


FDA Gives Full Approval to Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given full approval to Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.  “The public can be very confident that this vaccine meets the high standards of safety effectiveness and manufacturing quality the FDA requires of an approved product,” …


Afghanistan Flag to Be Displayed in Paralympic Ceremony

The Afghanistan flag will be displayed in Tuesday’s opening ceremony of the Paralympics even though the country’s athletes were not able to get to Tokyo to compete. Andrew Parsons, the president of the International Paralympic Committee, said Monday it will …


People Evacuated as New Wildfire Hits Greek Island

Scores of firefighters backed by water-dropping aircraft battled a forest fire that broke out early Monday on the southern part of Greece’s Evia island, less than two weeks after an inferno decimated its northern part.   The fire was burning near the …