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While current flu shots need to be updated each season, scientists are finding new ways to make vaccine that could last much longer and cover more strains.

Each year, roughly a billion people around the world catch the flu. You'll know if you've got it – it can knock you out for a week or more with a fever, fatigue, headaches and a cough. It leaves millions of people each year unable to work and sadly claims the lives of between 290,000-650,000 people in a typical year.

It's a miserable disease – and, unfortunately, there's no guarantee that if you catch it one year, you go through the same ordeal the following year. Influenza is a wily virus, constantly shapeshifting to get around humans' immune defences.

"That's why you have to get a flu shot every year," says Nicholas Heaton, a professor at the Duke University School of Medicine in North Carolina, US. Seasonal flu vaccines prevent many deaths and serious illnesses each year, but they are imperfect. Their effectiveness typically tops out around 60% and can dip well below that in years when the vaccine's formula isn't a good match for the virus that is actually spreading among humans.

But what if you didn't have to get a new shot every year? Heaton's lab, and others around the world, are trying to answer that tantalising question. They're developing so-called "universal" flu vaccines, which aim to offer better, broader and more durable protection than current seasonal vaccines. The idea is to "cover more strains or make the shot last longer", Heaton says. "Or, hopefully, both."
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The missiles of Iran did not even reach near the USS Lincoln, said the US Central Command.
The US Central Command (CENTCOM) stated that the USS Abraham Lincoln was not targeted by Iranian missiles.

The Revolutionary Guards had previously claimed through Iranian state media that they targeted the US aircraft carrier with four ballistic missiles.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that he has instructed to continue the campaign against Iran. He made this statement during a meeting with his Defense Minister, Chief of Staff, and the head of Mossad.

Speaking from the roof of the IDF's Kirya headquarters in Tel Aviv, Netanyahu said, 'Our forces are currently attacking the heart of Tehran with increasing intensity, and this will continue to grow in the coming days.'

Hezbollah, the armed organization in Lebanon, has announced that it will confront the 'aggression' of America and Israel against Iran.

According to BBC Persian, Hezbollah's Secretary-General Naim Qassem stated in a statement that his organization will not abandon the 'path of resistance.'

Naim Qassem described the attack by America and Israel on the Iranian Supreme Leader as a 'criminal' activity, stating that 'with trust in God, guidance, and support, we will fulfill our responsibility to confront this aggression.'

U.S. President Donald Trump claimed that the United States has 'destroyed and sunk' nine Iranian naval vessels.

In his message on Truth Social, he stated that 'I have just been informed that we have destroyed and sunk nine Iranian naval vessels, some of which were large and significant.'

The U.S. President claimed that he will now target the remaining naval vessels and 'soon they will be seen floating at the bottom of the sea.'

After US President Donald Trump oversaw the seizure of his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolás Maduro last month, he vowed to tap the country's oil reserves – the world's largest.
Trump now says that he plans to visit the South American country, although no date has been set.
His comments, made last Friday, came after US Energy Secretary Chris Wright completed a two-day trip to Venezuela to see how the nation is starting to reopen its oil sector to US companies.
Wright's visit came shortly after Venezuela's National Assembly passed a law to allow both private and foreign investment in its oil industry, following two decades of tight state control.
In Trump's eyes it is a big business opportunity for the US oil sector. "We're going to be extracting numbers in terms of oil like few people have seen," he said at a news conference in mid-January, after a meeting with energy bosses at the White House.
But for the US oil firms that Trump wants to invest heavily in Venezuela, the question is a simple one - do the numbers add up?
William Jackson, chief emerging markets economist at Capital Economics, says the US president's aim is to "revive Venezuela's oil sector and use that energy to increase supply and reduce costs to the consumer, possibly providing a source of revenue for a more friendly Venezuelan government to rebuild the economy after years of mismanagement".

For US energy companies, however, there are huge practical difficulties to be overcome. Venezuela's state-owned oil company, PDVSA, is a shadow of its former self.

The governments of Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chávez milked the firm for all it was worth, and used the money to finance social spending on housing, healthcare and transport.

But they failed to invest in maintaining oil production levels, which have plummeted in recent years – partly, but not solely, because of US sanctions, which could now be revised.

"In Venezuela, you're dealing with equipment that's been degraded by many years of neglect," says Jackson. "Ten to 15 years ago, Venezuela was producing 1.5 million barrels a day more than it does today."

Former President Bill Clinton told a congressional panel he "saw nothing," and "did nothing wrong" in relation to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The all-day hearing behind closed doors in New York featured the former president being asked about his inclusion in newly released files related to the financier, including in a photo with an unidentified person in a hot tub.

His testimony came one day after his wife, ex-US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, told the committee she also "had no idea" of Epstein's crimes.

Appearing in the files is not an indication of wrongdoing, and neither Clinton has been accused of misconduct by Epstein survivors who have come forward so far
Clinton said that he would have cut off ties to Epstein and never would have flown on his plane if he "had any inkling of what he was doing".

"I would have turned him in myself," he said in his opening statement released to the public ahead of his testimony.

After his testimony in New York, he posted a video that largely repeated his opening statement, saying he did not know of Epstein's crimes "no matter how many photos they show of me".