After Miss Staten Island Madison L’Insalata exclusively came out to The Post as bisexual on Saturday, parade organizer Larry Cummings banned her and her fellow beauty queens — citing safety concerns, according to a pageant organizer. The Staten Island St. Patrick’s Day parade has an ugly history of banning a gay group from marching, and now its organizers showed their […]

DOCTORS are battling a “nightmare scenario” after a man became the first to catch the coronavirus within Britain. Three other new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed among people who had been abroad, taking the UK total to 23. Read our coronavirus live blog for all the latest news and updates It came as PM Boris Johnson set up a war room to […]

FORMER Vice President Joe Biden hopes for a huge win in South Carolina's Democratic primary election to inject life – and cash – back into his struggling campaign. Polls show the 77-year-old is well positioned to win the nominating contest, and he says he's keen to "raise us a lot of money if we win solidly". The Democrats’ 2020 nominating […]

Kabul: The United States signed a historic deal with Taliban insurgents on Saturday that could pave the way toward a full withdrawal of foreign soldiers from Afghanistan over the next 14 months and represent a step toward ending the 18-year-war there. While the agreement paves the way for the United States to gradually pull out of its longest war, many […]

It appeared in a live animal market late last year in the sprawling Chinese city of Wuhan. Now a virus previously unknown to science has killed at least 2900 people, infected more than 85,000 and led to the lockdown of millions in central China in what experts warn looks increasingly like the world's next pandemic. Cases have emerged in more […]

Absent fathers are fuelling knife crime in Britain, warns police chief as she says youths are turning to drug dealers for role models Police chief says absent fathers and lack of role models is driving knife crime Jackie Sebire says violence had become ‘normalised’ for many teenagers Britain’s top officer on violence warns that many do not fear going to […]

I HEARD Duffy’s song Warwick Avenue on the radio this week and wondered again, as I often have, what became of this incredibly gifted woman. At the height of her fame she was right up there with Adele in terms of sheer talent and popularity. And then Duffy simply vanished, leaving us with some hauntingly beautiful songs, and a sense […]

A viral TikTok video reimagines the wealth of Jeff Bezos, the richest person in the world, in grains of rice. Humphrey Yang, the creator of the video, found that if each grain represents $100,000, Bezos's pile of money would weigh 58 pounds. According to Forbes, Bezos is worth $113 billion. The bottom half of Americans, by contrast, have a combined […]

BORIS Johnson has said the coronavirus was now the government's number one priority. It comes after he was criticised for waiting until Monday to hold a crunch meeting on the outbreak – that claimed its first Brit victim today. A tourist from the Diamond Princess cruise ship was the first Brit to die from the killer virus, also known as […]

A GROWING number of coronavirus patients are again testing positive for the deadly disease just days after being given the all clear, it's reported. Experts say people are becoming reinfected even after they've been discharged from hospital, sparking fears that the epidemic is spiralling out of control. Follow our coronavirus live blog to stay up to date with the latest news and […]