Police stop 30,000 passengers in two weeks for flouting face mask rules on public transport – but only issue 33 fines British Transport Police stopped 28,964 travellers between July 13 and July 25 A fifth, 1,605 people, were told to leave, while 33 were handed out a £100 fine Transport for London spoke to 54,000 passengers across capital since July 4 […]

Only half of Britons are ‘very likely’ to get a coronavirus vaccine as experts say ‘misperceptions’ are putting lives at risk The figures come from a joint study by King’s College London and Ipsos Mori 37% of those who think face masks are bad for health are unlikely to or definitely will not get a vaccine  Oxford vaccine study adults […]

A BUBONIC plague outbreak in China has seen the second victim die in days from the horror bug known as the "Black Death". The victim, who was from northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, died from multiple organ failure on Friday, the Bayannao'er city health commission said on its website. Another person from the same region died from the disease just […]

A MAN has been stabbed in broad daylight in front of horrified shoppers near Oxford Street in London. Police were called to reports of an assault on Market Place at 5.38pm today. A man was found with stab injuries and he was transferred to a major trauma centre – there is no update on his condition. Police remain at the […]

A MAN'S body has been pulled from the water at a beauty spot in Norfolk after he got into difficulty amid the UK heatwave. Police raced to Bawsey Pits Country Park near King's Lynn at about 11.30am, where a man was in difficulty in the water. A massive search and rescue operation was launched but the man was sadly pronounced […]

As a child, Elon Musk would read comic books and sci-fi novels and dream of fantastical worlds. Now the tech entrepreneur is on the verge of visiting one. Musk’s focus narrowed some 20 years ago while poking around NASA’s website. He noticed that there was no timetable for a manned mission to Mars. He later called the lack of vision […]

PRESTON has been plunged into local lockdown, after the council asked residents to follow a number of extra restrictions in a bid to halt the spread of the virus. Data from Public Health England shows a worrying rise in new Covid-19 cases in the city, leading many to speculate that the official announcement of a local lockdown is inevitable. The […]

LANSING, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer traveled to Delaware last weekend to meet with Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee’s first known in-person session with a potential running mate as he nears a decision. Whitmer visited Biden Sunday, according to two high-ranking Michigan Democrats who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the […]

UK ministers plead with France to get tough on Channel migrants amid warning that 7,500 could cross by Christmas – as full dinghy paddles straight past country’s navy using shovels as oars Nearly 4,000 migrants made the crossing in boats in the first 219 days of 2020  More than 130 migrants crossed the channel to land in Dover on Friday  […]

The US saw more than 2,000 coronavirus fatalities in a single day for the first time since May — as the country’s total death toll soared to a staggering 160,000 on Friday. There were at least 2,060 deaths reported nationwide during a 24-hour period from Wednesday night to Thursday night, according to the AFP, which cited data from Johns Hopkins […]