Myanmar's military has detained the country's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the country's president in a coup staged hours before a new parliament was due to be sworn in.

Rory Hooper, 16, (left) has joined his father Dan, better known as 'Swampy,' by staying in makeshift tunnels underneath Euston Square Gardens. Experts fear the tunnels are at risk of collapse.

Captain Sir Tom Moore suffered with pneumonia over the 'past few weeks' and was taken to Bedford Hospital in Bedfordshire on Sunday after requiring 'help with his breathing'.

A victim has told of his nightmare after a one night stand with Jaclyn McGowan, 36, led to nine months of torment, with his date faking a pregnancy. Jamie Aitken says he hopes 'she gets help.'

Another 12 Army veterans are facing charges including murder relating to Troubles shootings almost 50 years ago despite ministers' pledges to protect those who served in Northern Ireland.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of assault and a racially aggravated public order offence after shocking footage showed violence erupt at a Sainsbury's supermarket on Sunday afternoon.

Papers released by Sage say advice on the use of face coverings should be strengthened so rules are applied more 'consistently and effectively' in the fight against the Kent variant of coronavirus.

The debate on Wednesday is being brought to chamber by co-convenor of the Scottish Greens Patrick Harvie.

Scientists at the University of Modena, Italy, tracked 431 couples having assisted reproductive therapy when lockdown was imposed last year - temporarily halting their treatment.

Headteacher Nicholas Hewlett plans to tell students at St Dunstan's College in Catford, south east London, that he is gay during an online assembly held this morning

'Rachel Meghan' was removed from the mother section of the birth certificate to bring it in alliance with Diana's preferred name, 'Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales'.

Under the new plans she has put forward, Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema is hoping to turn the focus away from sex and drugs and make the inner city more livable for locals.

Charities marked World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day by lighting up monuments, seeking to draw attention to diseases still causing suffering around the world.

Greater Manchester Police are investigating abusive messages sent to Marcus Rashford following Manchester United's goalless draw against Arsenal on Saturday.

Tens of thousands of cancer patients have missed out on potentially lifesaving treatment. Surgery to remove tumours plummeted by one third during the first wave of coronavirus.

Boris Johnson's father Stanley has landed a new environmental job in which he will attend the United Nations COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow, putting pressure on the Prime Minister.

Theatres may not be alive with the sound of music but the nation hasn't forgotten its love of the stage, choosingOne Day More from Les Miserables as its favourite hit from a musical.

Ministers are launching a consultation into plans for householders to claim discounts if they make changes such as putting in flood barriers.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies has suggested extending the academic year and making school days longer to prevent youngsters missing out on £40,000 worth of income in later life.

Taxpayers are to fund 'mindfulness' classes for MPs costing £20,000 a year. The House of Lords shunned plans for the meditation programme, warning they had 'strong reservations'.

A surge in home deliveries for wine and other goods has led to a shortage of cardboard - or 'beige gold' as recycling experts now call it. An extra 200million items were sent to homes in the run-up to Christmas.

Experts warned sleeping on your back in the final three months of pregnancy could harm your unborn child as it may cut blood flow to the baby in the womb through the umbilical cord by 11%.

The skeleton of a friar who suffered two broken thigh bones as a result of what University of Cambridge archaeologists believe was a cart accident where he was struck by a wagon has been unearthed.

Premier League clubs including Arsenal and Manchester City were last night accused of 'giving football a bad name' for promoting gambling firms on Twitter. Peter Shilton called it 'morally wrong'.

More than 2,600 people have signed a petition calling on Herefordshire Council to 'grow up' and give Mr Woodhouse his job back after he was sacked for decapitating toddler's snowman.

There are now 563,240 homes worth more than £1 million in Britain - 39,629 more than there were in 2019, according to data collected by estate agency Savills for The Sunday Times.

Research suggests reading is the most popular lockdown pastime. Overall, 61 per cent of the 2,000 British adults surveyed said they had taken up or rekindled a creative interest.

Thousands of stranded HGV drivers were forced to spend Christmas 2020 in the cabin while parked up in laybys and lorry parks near the Port of Dover, Kent, leaving the town gridlocked.

The project linked almost 100 National Trust properties to British colonialism and the slave trade, including Winston Churchill's former home Chartwell House.

Struggling families face council tax increases of more than £100 because of Boris Johnson's failure to fix social care. Several authorities planning to increase by the maximum 5 per cent.

A vile 'sex for rent' landlord exposed by the Daily Mail is being investigated by police. Fredrick Allard, 70, was filmed asking an undercover reporter to pay rent with sexual favours.

Data from the Department of Health show that the UK recorded 21,088 daily Covid-19 cases today, down by 29.7 per cent from 30,004 cases last Sunday, and 587 deaths.

Barrister Jon Holbrook had been commenting on the case of Ruby Williams, who won £8,500 in an out-of-court settlement from her school for alleged discrimination.

Police attended reports of a fight onboard a bus in Haringey, north London, this evening and upon arrival found a 15-year-old boy suffering from a stab injury.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and woman, in her 40s, was found dead with "significant injuries" in a Milton Keynes house in a quiet suburb (pictured).

Dancing On Ice are reportedly looking to replace Rufus Hound with Matt Richardson amid controversy over the comedian's resurfaced homophobic and racist tweets.

Clive Jones, a retired 65-year-old maths teacher from Derby, claims he has fathered 116 children acting as a sperm donor over the past eight years, charging women a maximum of £30.

A hardline teaching union last night turned its back on a bold plan to vaccinate Britain's entire classroom staff and get pupils back to school in weeks.

While most colleagues were preoccupied by protective equipment, Britain's Jonathan Van-Tam would keep repeating in meetings: 'We need to buy freezers.'

Boris Johnson is looking again at whether the country should go back to a system of regional tiers, which was credited with slowing spread of the virus but ultimately failed to head off a third lockdown.

Professor Anthony Harnden, deputy chair of the committee that decided Britain's jabs priority list, vowed there was 'really good evidence' the jab is effective in elderly Britons.

The Department of Health figures show that 445,941 vaccinations were given out across the UK on January 28 - of which 443,985 were given to people receiving their first dose.

Public Health England data has revealed that outbreaks across essential workplaces have risen by 45 per cent during the current lockdown that came into force on January 5.

Boris Johnson has ditched his plan to make Lord Frost the UK's new National Security Adviser after a furious backlash from critics.

Hannah Read, 22, fell into a coma caused by brain inflammation encephalitis - which was triggered by a cold sore - aged eight. Ms Read, from Ringwood, was unable to recognise faces when she woke up,

Worcestershire County Council 'fat cat' executives were accused of jumping the Covid jabs queue admitted today they had no idea how many had been vaccinated - because of medical records laws.

Online fashion giant Boohoo has confirmed it is in exclusive talks to buy much of Sir Philip Green's high street empire, including Burton and Dorothy Perkins.

Michael Schumacher, 52, has not been seen publicly since the 2013 accident and so the new film, entitled 'Schumacher', will provide race insight to Formula One fans on his health battle.

Abuse towards shop workers has doubled since the coronavirus crisis took hold, with retail union USDAW saying 42 per cent of incidents relate to rows over face coverings.

The EU regulator's findings about the Pfizer jab come as Germany said today that it expected the EMA to limit to the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine to under-65s (file photo)

Appearing on Good Morning Britain today, Eva Gicain, 30, of Basildon in Essex, admitted she has no memory of giving birth to her daughter, Elleana.

Furious Tory MPs have accused Nicola Sturgeon of 'showboating' in a bid to 'curry favour' with the EU after she pledged to publish details of the UK's vaccine supplies.

Bolsonaro, who has shunned social distancing throughout the pandemic and will not get a vaccine, has urged Brazilian state leaders not to bring in new restrictions because 'Covid will be with us for life'.

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Bored Britons looking for a new hobby in lockdown have turned to puzzles - with demand for jigsaws skyrocketing by 38 per cent. It has left some manufacturers struggling to keep up with demand.

The Prime Minister said there is still doubts over the safety of the rapid testing, which would give results within just minutes rather than a matter of days.

Gabe Plotkin, whose company Melvin Capital suffered massive losses in January largely due to GameStop, is currently hoping to expand his $44 million Miami Beach mansion.

Mark Bolton, 57, of Stockport, was said to have put victims 'in fear' after he asked them out for a drink before thrusting his calling cards between their breasts.

American tenor Robert Dean Smith had to roll out of the way of a suspended 467lbs boulder which failed to come to a stop two feet above the stage, during a production of a Wagner opera in Toulouse.

Londoners who travelled to the Cotswolds were fined by police for flouting Covid travel curbs, while two climbers who scaled Ben Nevis were handed £60 fines for driving 100 miles from Glasgow.

The Cranebank centre, near Heathrow, was used to train some 17,000 cabin crew and 4,000 pilots, equipping them for emergencies on its Boeing 737 simulator.

Chris Hopson, the chief of NHS Providers, said doctors and nurses need a chance to 'decompress and recover' after working at an 'intense fever pitch' during the pandemic.

Bernard Tomic's prospects of another deep Australian Open run have suffered a major blow, with the former Davis Cup star withdrawing from the Melbourne Summer Series.

Asos has sealed the takeover of Topshop and three other brands from the collapse of the Arcadia empire for £265million. The buyer has also paid £65million for current and pre-ordered stock.

Public and Commercial Services Union says Border Force staff at Heathrow have been angered by the ban on shift swapping and 96 per cent of members who voted backed strike action

Staffordshire Council and Highways England are investigating a cyberattack on Burton-on-trent's traffic system which took place yesterday afternoon, displaying 'unacceptable' messages on a sign.

A study of 216 men and women has found the length of index and ring fingers plays a key role in whether people eat food dubbed either 'masculine,' or 'feminine'.

Hollywood star Matthew McConaughey describes his life as an 18-year-old exchange student in regional Australia as a 'livin' hell' in his plainspoken new memoir.

William Wedell and his mother, Agnes, were found dead on Saturday when police entered their Manhattan apartment. William was identified by his sister as an actor who had landed small roles.

Frank Martinez, 93, and Masako 'Terry' Martinez, 86, were able to hold hands and eat together at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in O'Fallon, Illinois, a picture shows.

Victoria Burrell-Corey, 49, from Wilmslow, Cheshire, was found by police slumped over the wheel of her car with an empty 750ml bottle of vodka in the footwell on June 20 last year.

The University of Sydney has been blasted for wasting taxpayers' money through their involvement with a week-long festival involving human trees and witches casting environmental spells.

When US soldier Ragnvald Borch was told to 'get what you want,' from Hitler's retreat in the Bavarian Alps, he chose to take the dictator's toilet seat, dubbed 'as close to a throne as he'd ever get'.

The names 'Rachel Meghan' were removed from the mother section of Archie's birth certificate for Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Sussex.

The body of David Vowell, 70, who was accused of shooting dead two duck hunters, Chance Black and Zachary Grooms, has been found in a Tennessee lake near the area where the victims were killed.

Max Chambers, then 19, peddled cannabis and ketamine to fellow Manchester University students after incurring £1,500 in debts due to his own addiction to Xanax and Valium.

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has written to Kwasi Kwarteng demanding the Government helps companies prepare by confirming when they can expect to re-open.

Forecasters warn the wintry weather will hit from 10pm tonight and could last the rest of the week - while more than 250 flood warnings and alerts are in force for England along with a further six for Wales.

Paul Elliot, 73, who himself suffered from coronavirus last March, has opened an Etsy shop selling a £10 mask with a photograph of him and his brother Barry - who died in 2018.

The Treasury is set to rake in 34.2 per cent of economic output in the next financial year, according to campaign group the TaxPayers' Alliance.

The success of the UK drive to secure jabs could mean that by the summer stocks can be shared with other countries - as Boris Johnson warned the pandemic cannot be tackled in isolation.

Ministers must set up an Australian-style task force to fix the UK's building cladding crisis by the end of next year, Sir Keir Starmer will demand today.

Mustafa Naaman was gunned down in Hurstville, Sydney's south on Sunday night, less than four months after Amin Naaman was declared a missing person amid fears he may have been killed.

Meg Adam from Brighton Grammar made the comments during an assembly with hundreds of pupils last week on their first day back at school.

A drunk who lost his temper and smashed a McDonald's register after staff asked him to scan a QR code has been sentenced to anger management counselling.

The former University of Queensland student posted a photo of their degree to Reddit this week to show that the institution failed to correctly spell 'education'.

Trump said that Schoen and Castor agree that the impeachment is 'unconstitutional - a fact 45 Senators voted in agreement with last week', as Melania's parents visited.

The Attorney-General's office is working with Queensland Police before applying to India for the extradition of person of interest over the death of Toyah Cordingley near Cairns.

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff says Melania was former President Donald Trump's first phone call after every rally and she'd shower him with praise about how 'wonderful and great' he is, her former friend claims.

Mongol Toby Mitchell hits the ground after being knocked out in embarrassing video that threatens to go viral. 

Queensland has shut its borders to NSW three times since the pandemic began. Now they are back open, Queensland is calling for interstate residents to bail out tourism industry.

January was the deadliest month of the coronavirus pandemic with 95,211 fatalities recorded - 20,000 more than December.

The awful incident occurred outside Bunnings Warehouse in Stafford, Brisbane on Sunday.

A Perth man has trolled policemen who asked him to put on a mask one hour into the snap lockdown. The video takes viewers on a tour of Perth's empty streets on the first night of the five day lockdown

During a Collingwood press conference on Monday, McGuire, 56, said it 'breaks our heart' that Lumumba doesn't want to be associated with the club.

New York City, New Jersey, and Philadelphia have declared states of emergency ahead of Winter Storm Orlena, which is forecast to dump up to two feet of snow in the Big Apple.

There are reports a woman 'bit a customer on the neck' and stole her toilet paper in South Perth late on Sunday, as Premier Mark McGowan announced measures to stem the spread of Covid.

A jury had found Wendie-Sue Dent, 62, guilty in April last year of murdering her de facto husband inside his Morphett Vale home, south of Adelaide, in December 2015.

Rugby Australia has offered to host this year's British and Irish Lions series against South Africa, in hopes of securing the 2027 Rugby World Cup.

Around 35 people with the newly-formed homeless rights group Oly Housing Now occupied a hotel in downtown Olympia on Sunday, demanding better shelters. Police arrived to clear them out.

Janice Shelmerdine claimed her son Richard sold a waterfront property in Sorrento to her daughter Celia Burrel for $3.4million. The 84-year-old claimed he needed her consent to sell it.

The man, who is aged in his 20s and from Maylands, inner Perth, tested positive to the virus on Saturday night sparking a harsh five-day lockdown for Perth, Peel and South West regions.

The naive TikTok user had posted a video to the social media platform of him repeatedly drifting around a roundabout with his Queensland registration plates on full display.

Tyjone Flournoy, 23, and Lawrence Thomas, 24, have been arrested for the Thursday attack on private detective Jack Palladino, 76. Palladino suffered a 'traumatic head injury' and is not expected to survive.

AFL star Liam Baker was allegedly pepper sprayed by a woman during an argument outside Osborne Rooftop and Bar in Melbourne's South Yarra in the early hours of the morning

Chicago Public Schools said teachers who fail to report to work Monday will be locked out of online teaching tools. The Chicago Teacher's Union has voted to strike if teachers are locked out.

Steven Brandenburg, 46, pictured allegedly told a co-worker at Advocate Aurora Health Systems about his beliefs in conspiracy theories including that the vaccine is 'micro-chipped.'

Sarah Thomson, 28, ran a marathon a day for a week for the charity Mind, completing her final run last Tuesday in three hours and 40 minutes. She went missing on Saturday, but has been found safe.

Elizabeth Warren said on Sunday that the spotlight on GameStop and Robinhood showed that Wall Street was a 'rigged game' as she demanded the SEC 'get off their duffs and do their jobs'.

The Lincoln Project has shared a scathing statement disavowing co-founder John Weaver after 21 men came forward to accuse the longtime Republican strategist of sexually harassing them.

An angry woman filmed swinging her paddle at a man who rammed her vessel has been revealed as the deputy principal of the local New Zealand primary school.

Tesla depended on selling zero emissions credits to other carmakers to make a net profit for the first time - despite its soaring share prices. The company recorded a net income of $721million in 2020.

New video shows the moment Aditya Singh, 36, was arrested on January 16 after living at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport for three months undetected.

Tragedy has struck family, friends and pupils of a beloved primary school teacher who fell to her death down a waterfall in the Barron Gorge National Park, later passing from sustained head injuries

Police were looking for a woman's partner to make sure he was abiding by a court order that he not live in her home near Wollongong, NSW, when they found bags of cannabis on her bed.

Australia's newly appointed trade minister, Dan Tehan, has revealed his Chinese counterparts are not interested in speaking with him as the bitter relationship continues to deteriorate.

Virgin Australia launched a sale on Monday offering a number of flights from Sydney to top Queensland destinations for under $90.

The coalition's industrial relations bill has sparked a fierce backlash from Labor and unions, which argue changes to the better off overall test could leave workers worse off.

Premier Mark McGowan said there were 3,171 tests on Sunday - up from the normal 500 tests on Sundays - as Perth was plunged into a five-day lockdown.

A woman charged with murdering mother of four Kobie Parfitt had walked free from jail days earlier after coping a lenient sentence over a brutal bashing. 

Australian renovators upgrading their toilet can save themselves a lot of strain with a little-known service offered by Bunnings that helps them find a local tradie to sort it out.

Last week Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk asked for an extension of JobKeeper as state border uncertainty weighed on domestic tourism.

Quarantined travellers staying at the Sheraton Four Points in Perth where a worker tested positive for Covid, have blasted hotel guards for their 'slack demeanour' - and for not wearing PPE properly.

The 19-year-old is one of four men charged with offences relating to the alleged repeated rapes of the teenage girls at Calamvale District Park, south of Brisbane, on December 28.

The artist, who goes by the name TextaQueen,  has put the work on display at the Gallery of Modern Art in the Queensland Art Gallery, in Brisbane.

A black-and-white aerial photograph of Melbourne taken in 1950 shows Fitzroy Town Hall in the bottom left, to the Royal Exhibition Building towards Port Phillip Bay, with the other taken in 2020.

Melbourne dad Simon Blackburn revealed in a Tik Tok video on Friday that he has been raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars each year since 2011.

Sasha the lioness is fighting fit again and free to roam the African bush. The nine-year-old was among five lions and 12 tigers saved from circuses in Guatemala.

The woman had stopped her blue Elantra Sedan on a Queensland road on Saturday before a passing driver asked her to move her vehicle.

Kevin Duckett cannot hope to surpass his discovery of what is thought to be an exquisite fragment of the lost crown of the Tudor dynasty.

The Chancellor is mulling increases to capital gains tax - paid on shares and other asset sales to bring it into line with income tax rates. Corporation tax could also rise from 19 to 24 per cent.

The New York Times outlined interviews with 21 accusers in an article published Sunday, two weeks after Weaver publicly admitted to sending inappropriate messages to men.

Sydney-based lawyer Peter Lavac has a new set of number plates after he was banned from using 'LGOPNR' on his canary yellow Lamborghni.

The mischievous marsupial was filmed making itself at home at a Murramurang Beach cabin on the New South Wales South Coast after hopping into the property through an open door.

The body of a woman who went missing while snorkeling off a Melbourne beach has been found after a two-day search.

More than 100million people across the Midwest and Northeast face snowy conditions through Tuesday. Meteorologist Bernie Rayno has already called the cold blast 'monumental'.

The Mail's Computers for Kids campaign has attracted extraordinary support from readers and big firms alike, with high street bank Santander also joining in yesterday.

Philip Latour was suffering from 'breathing difficulties' and took himself to Fiona Stanley Hospital's emergency department in Perth on Saturday and posted his positive test result on social media.

The NSW premier said it was not necessary to shut the border because there has only been one case recorded in Perth, which has been put into a five-day lockdown.

The premier on Sunday imposed stay-at-home orders for 80 per cent of the state's population after just one Covid case was recorded in a hotel quarantine security guard.

Rochester cops responded to a call for 'family trouble' and a possible stolen car around 3.30pm on Friday. Videos released on Sunday show the young girl getting pepper sprayed and handcuffed.

The 38-year-old comedian's matter was mentioned before Newtown Local Court, in Sydney, on Monday just hours after the finale of the hit Channel Ten reality show.

Hosted by John Krasinki, the first SNL of 2021, main, managed to not feature either the president or vice president in its skits. The move was blasted online by some viewers, inset.

Victoria Police and Melbourne City Council will review the possible security upgrades following the incident along Melbourne's Bourke Street Mall on Thursday.

Hamilton Police Chief Gene Allmond and Officer John Brooks were caught on video using the N-word, including while referring to Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, during a BLM protest in 2020.

The man tested positive on Saturday night sparking a five-day lockdown for Western Australia's Perth, Peel and South West regions after the state had gone 10 months without a community case.

A motorist's dashcam captured footage of a Toyota Yaris driving through a roundabout, before a cocker spaniel in the backseat was flung onto the road.

Republican Sen. Rob Portman demanded his colleagues issue a 'strong response' to GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for calling school shootings a 'hoax' before she was elected to Congress.

A 30-year-old man has been charged after allegedly assaulting a five-year-old boy at Lidcombe Shopping Centre, in Sydney's west, on Sunday afternoon.

The scathing report found Collingwood's attempts to deal with claims of racism were either 'ineffective' or 'exacerbated' the situation, and there was a gap between what it said and did.