Boy, 12, was electrocuted on train tracks after he slipped on wet sleeper while playing ‘flip the bottle’ game with friend, inquest hears James Myers, 12, was playing the ‘flip the bottle’ game with friends when he fell and slipped onto 630-volt train tracks in Bedford Road, Bootle two years ago  The youngster climbed over railings to retrieve the bottle […]

Crisis is looming as doctors are lost to early retirement: NHS faces staffing crisis after number of medics leaving the profession early TREBLES GPs and hospital medics are currently retiring at an average age of just 59   Total number of doctors retiring for any reason rose by 21 per cent in 2020/21 British Medical Association says exhaustion is to blame […]

Silicon Valley’s eccentric outlaw: How John McAfee overcame his own father’s suicide to pioneer anti-virus tech before spending his millions on a rock star lifestyle with drugs and women before paranoid conspiracy theories led him to Spanish jail John McAfee was found dead in his cell in a Barcelona jail on Wednesday after learning he’d be extradited McAfee, 75, was […]

Make Britons isolate! Angela Merkel calls on EU nations to force UK travellers to quarantine because of high levels of Indian Covid variant German Chancellor urged EU nations to require travellers coming from countries with high Delta variant prevalence – such as Britain – to quarantine Berlin has banned travellers from Britain entering unless, with some exceptions Italy reintroduced quarantine […]

By Nandita Bose    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday for the first time since taking a lead role in immigration issues, her office said, bowing to pressure that she make the high-profile trip.    Harris will travel to El Paso, Texas, on Friday and will be accompanied by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, […]

On Tuesday night in Philadelphia, Washington Nationals ace Max Scherzer proved that it’s possible to spitefully, even combatively, unbuckle your belt and begin to disrobe on a baseball field. Given some time to think about it, though, it wasn’t the players he took issue with, it was the new state of the game. The first day of mandatory checks for […]

Woman, 18, reveals she was groped ‘for an hour’ by a male passenger on a Spirit Airlines flight to California – and claims she was told to ‘sit down and stay quiet’ by flight attendants An 18-year-old woman claimed she was groped by man on a Spirit Airlines flight Taking to TikTok, she said she was on a flight to […]

Colombo, Sri Lanka— Nearly 100 carcasses of turtles with throat and shell damage, as well as a dozen dead dolphins and a blue whale, have washed ashore in Sri Lanka since a container ship burnt and sank, raising fears of a severe marine disaster. Ecologists believe the deaths were directly caused by the fire and release of hazardous chemicals while […]

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UK’s Covid cases hit four-month high of 11,625 as deaths nearly triple in a week to 27 and hospital admissions creep up again – but country moves closer to herd immunity with nearly 90% of adults having antibodies following huge vaccine drive Figures show daily toll has risen by 51.5% in a week, with today’s count the most since February […]