The first-edition copy of Frankenstein by Mary Shelly (pictured), published in 1818, sold for a record-breaking £856,000 at Christie's - the highest price ever paid for a work by a female author.

Melbourne businessman Peter Wishart says he had no other choice to sack general manager and son Daniel on Tuesday after the Victorian government mandated vaccinations for construction workers.

The energy market has reached boiling point. Small suppliers are at risk of being incinerated and the nation's bills are about to blow. The only saving grace is that the energy price cap is working..

I bought three tickets to see Elton John in Barcelona for October 2020 from StubHub. This performance was cancelled because of Covid and they offered me tickets for this year.

An unprecedented gas supply crisis is threatening to add hundreds of pounds to our energy bills as we head for a bleak winter. Here we explain how to keep your cool and beat the heating bills blitz.

According to one measure, rare and vintage whiskies have risen in value by more than 500 per cent in a decade. But experts warn unscrupulous firms are now pushing risky investment opportunities.

Gabby Petito's body has been found, a coroner announced on Tuesday - confirming that the body located on Sunday at the Spread Creek Dispersed Camping Area is that of the missing 22-year-old.

Donald Trump on Tuesday filed a case in Dutchess County, New York, seeking an excess of $100 million in damages from his niece Mary and The New York Times over a 2019 story on his tax returns.

The National Audit Office has confirmed the devastating blunders made by the DWP in a scandal we uncovered alongside our columnist, former Pensions Minister Steve Webb.

Pictures show some eco-zealots from Insulate Britain have attended at least three of the five M25 protests. It comes as Priti Patel and Grant Shapps have ordered officials to look into an injuction.

Soaring gas prices have left energy companies struggling and led to two US-owned fertiliser manufacturing plants shutting down because they cannot operate at a profit.

Prince Andrew's legal team has finally accepted that he has been correctly served with legal papers by his sex accuser.

Bosses gave the green light to the two-seater Citroen Ami coming here after receiving more than 12,000 expressions of interest from potential British customers.

Ex-Chinese Communist Party insider Wei Jingsheng told a shocking new documentary The World Military Games in October 2019 could have acted as the virus' first superspreader event.

'Karen', used to refer to an entitled, middle-class white woman, and 'gammon', a term referring to right-wing, pro-Brexit men, have been added to the list of the regulator's offensive words.

Six thousand of the Spanish island's 80,000 inhabitants have now been forced from their homes by the volcanic eruption - the first in 50 years. Hundreds of tourists have also been affected.

Gen. John Raymond, commander of the Space Force, revealed the uniforms for the newest branch of the military on Tuesday. The uniform has been compared to the suits in science fiction.

Craig Watson was dropping his friend off when he noticed smoke billowing out of a property on Pannell Avenue, in Acklam, Middlesbrough.

Emma Campbell, 30, from Portsmouth, got her flat from the council when she was aged 17. Since then, she bought the flat for herself and over lockdown she transformed it into her dream home on a budget.

Willie Garson, known for his role as Stanford Blatch on Sex and the City, died at the age of 57 on Tuesday, his son, Nathen confirmed on Instagram.

Melbourne and regional Victoria have reported being rocked by an 'earthquake' - as tremors were felt as far away as Sydney.

Robbie WIlliams has listed his sprawling 72-acre country estate for £6.75 million.

Joe Biden did not recognize any American reporters for questions during an Oval Office meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson; his aides cleared out reporters as they tried to ask them.

SARAH VINE: Twice in my life I've owed everything to a GP. But had I not been able to take my son to see the doctor face to face, it is possible his illness would not have been detected.

The Creme Caramel is being introduced to mark the brand's 85th anniversary. But it will only be available in the UK at 17 John Lewis stores offering its pick-and-mix stations.

Prince Andrew, 61, reportedly rescued a dog while attending a reception in an upper storey of a castle in the Scottish Highlands.

News Breakfast presenters have had two very different responses to a magnitude 5.8 earthquake that hit the ABC's Melbourne studio on Wednesday morning.

RICHARD PENDLEBURY: At 9.22pm on Monday evening, Kabul time, former interpreter Abdul Ahmad received an unsolicited email from the Ministry of Defence in London.

Judi James, communication and body language expert, said Boris Johnson displayed confidence and an open approach as he met with Joe Biden.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson heaped praise on President Joe Biden in an NBC interview that aired Tuesday during the United Nations General Assembly. In doing so he also took a jab at Donald Trump.

Scientists at McMaster University, Ontario, said using medical terms such as 'infectious' and 'contagious' to describe music was 'more apt than has been previously recognised.'

UK patients are calling their GP surgeries up to 400 times to get through. One individual who needed to change some of her husband's cancer medication said she rang 390 times.

Martin Marshall, chairman of the UK's Royal College of GPs, told MPs that patients who 'absolutely need' to be in the same room as their doctor are being seen.

The notorious British conspiracy theorist and his allies were spotted yesterday screaming at pupils and trying to shove leaflets into their hands.

The Prime Minister is expected to discuss concerns over the Northern Ireland protocol in a series of meetings with the President and other White House officials today.

The Duchess of Cambridge, 39, who resumed her public duties last week after a summer break, spoke with surviving 'Windermere children' in Cumbria today.

McDonald's plans to reduce its plastic waste in Happy Meal toys by 90 percent by 2025 by switching to toys made out of recycled cardboard, plants, and other sustainable materials.

In a hard-hitting speech to the UN General Assembly in New York tonight, the Prime Minister will warn that mankind cannot continue to act as if 'someone else will clear up the mess we make'.

DAVID COVERDALE: Of the country's current 4,336 facilities, it is predicted that only 2,468 will remain by 2030 if the trend of closures continues and no new swimming spaces replace them.

JANET STREET-PORTER: Insulate Britain have decided to get their environmental message across to the world by GLUEING themselves to motorways in the morning rush hour.

PHILIP FLOWER: Whatever your opinion on the Insulate Britain protesters, their reckless methods of running headfirst into motorway traffic are irrefutably both illegal and irresponsible.

PRITI PATEL AND GRANT SHAPPS: Every year, millions of people join legal, peaceful demonstrations in this country to promote a cause they believe in.

Priti Patel and Grant Shapps have instructed officials to seek an injunction against Insulate Britain.

Every speaker - including President Joe Biden - was given a fresh microphone head at Tuesday's U.N. General Assembly in order to prevent the gathering from becoming a COVID superspraeder event.

The Stones' frontman, 78, shared a touching video on social media from Monday night's show at Gillette Stadium in Massachusetts where he told the audience it was a 'poignant night'.

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: The Oscar-winner's long-term boyfriend, the conservationist David Mills, has revealed that they considered tying the knot during the pandemic, discussing pros and cons.

Comedian Griff Rhys Jones bought a farm in Trehilyn, Pembrokeshire next to a river 17 years ago but two weeks ago farmyard slurry spilled into the water killing sea trout and eels.

Oklahoma cannibal Bob Lee Allen, 54, has been sentenced to 12 years prison after he and his husband Thomas Evans Gates, 43, performed an illegal castration on a male volunteer in October 2020

A chaotic brawl broke out at a Texas iHop between a group of women and a family after customers seated nearby start throwing things at each other, and the entire melee was caught on video.

A group of researchers from New York have found that the TBXT gene has a mutation that is present in apes and humans, but not in monkeys and may be the result of humans no longer having tails.

Experts are buzzing after proving for the first time that some blooms use the presence of pollinators as a cue to give up more of their perfume. This in turn boosts the plant's chances of being visited again.

A poll of 2,000 adults across the United Kingdom by health startup The Gut Stuff found 18 per cent of those surveyed said going to the toilet was the most worrying part of returning to the office full-time.

HENRY DEEDES: You remember Jen, don't you? She's the Yankee Doodle tech 'entreprenoo-er' who claims to have put a boost in Boris's broadband signal while he was Mayor of London.

Facebook's XCheck shields elite users from community guidelines. The oversight board is looking into whether Facebook 'has been fully forthcoming in its responses in relation to cross-check'.

Three weeks ago, a US drone strike was ordered on a white Toyota Carolla car in Kabul, Afghanistan, being driven by a suspected terrorist. The terror suspect, Zamarai Ahmadi, wasn't a terrorist.

Treasures worth more than £1million were taken in the raid on Arundel Castle despite police arriving within minutes of the alarm going off. Other missing items include gold and silverware.

The Australian study claimed that nutrients inside dairy have a protective effect on the heart and help it to function normally.

Today a man from London was re-arrested in connection and remains in police custody on suspicion of murder after the alleged attack at the Kingsbridge Inn on August 28.

The 32-year-old filmed a video from his car in which he revealed how the last few weeks have been 'the roughest of my life'.

Doran Binder, 49, bought The Crag Inn, Cheshire, in 2016 after his 'rock bottom' divorce - but found his new property sat atop some of 'the purest water in the world' which could sell for as much as £109 a bottle.

Auctioneers Bonhams said that with the imminent release of the new James Bond film No Time to Die, 007-fever had clearly swept the saleroom at the Goodwood motor circuit in West Sussex.

Department of Health bosses posted 31,564 new coronavirus infections today, up 18.5 per cent on the 26,628 recorded last Tuesday. Cases had been falling for the nine days prior to Saturday.

Police today said Sergey Fedotov, real name Denis Sergeev, faces a string of charges including trying to kill former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal, his daughter Yulia and police officer Nick Bailey.

Researchers at UC Riverside are developing a way to insert mRNA technology into plants, allowing the COVID-19 vaccines to be taken orally by eating vegetables.

Kwasi Kwarteng warned of 'difficult' months to come as he accepted that a swathe more suppliers could go bust amid rocketing wholesale gas prices.

The designer-filmmaker and their son were by the fashion journalist's side when he passed away peacefully. Afterwards, Stella McCartney - the boy's godmother - paid tribute to Buckley online.

Waldemar Zboralski, who had been chairman of the gay rights group the Warsaw Homosexual Movement, was one of the victims of Operation Hyacinth. He later fled to the UK.

According to the Global Citizen Live website, the Duke, 37, and Duchess of Sussex, 40, will attend the event in New York on Saturday.

Lucas Webb, 16, was reported missing by his parents on the afternoon of December 12 after failing to return from a ride on his bicycle and was found dead in woodland near Canterbury.

The body of nine-year-old Viktoria Gnedova was found buried seven feet beneath a concrete slab in the cellar of her apartment block. Shavkat Shayakhmedov, 61, also lived in the building.

Dorota Rabczewska, who is better known by her stage name Doda, made a 3D scan of her entire body which she then divided into 406 individual parts which can now be bought as Non-Fungible tokens.

Laws which will protect flexible working first put forward before the pandemic will be confirmed on Thursday, according to a report in The Times.

CF Industries, one of the biggest fertiliser businesses in the world, shut its two plants in Teesside and Cheshire after a large surge in gas prices meant production wouldn't be profitable.

We published an article on 1 August with the headline 'Covid cases fall for the ELEVENTH day in a row: Infections drop AGAIN by 16% in a week to 24,470 and deaths stay low at 65'.

Police have fired rubber bullets at anti-vaccination protesters who set up camp atop Melbourne's war memorial in the hopes police wouldn't fire on them out of respect for fallen Anzacs.

Insulate Britain ringleader Liam Norton walked off Good Morning Britain mid-debate  after a fiery clash with presenters Susanna Reid and Richard Madeley.

Grant Shapps (pictured) revealed a judge granted the legal remedy last night following a week of chaos on major highways in Surrey, London, Hertfordshire and Kent.

Thousands of people descended onto nightclub strips in Birmingham and Nottingham last night, wearing tiki themed fancy dress as Freshers' Week continued into its second evening.

The driver arrived in WA on September 16 after returning a negative result in NSW on September 13. He and his colleague made stops in Coolgardie, Southern Cross and Northam

A man wearing medals attempted to reason with Melbourne's violent thugs asking them to leave the Shrine of Remembrance before they trashed and defiled the war memorial.

Data published by the Des Moines Register yesterday found that the proportion of people who support the President in Iowa had tumbled by 12 per cent in the last three months.

Shire of Ravensthorpe chief executive Gavin Pollock used his position to register a sex worker as a supplier to the WA shire spending almost $55,000 for over a year.

Claudia Bihariova was last seen in Harehills, east Leeds, at around 5pm on Monday, according to West Yorkshire Police. She is described as a white female, thin, with black hair and brown eyes.

A female passenger, aged 83, was reported to have died soon after the plane made an emergency landing in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent. The captain opted to land after the woman felt unwell.

London police said they were searching for Tyler Jackman, 11, Zeah Jackman, seven, Marley Jackson, six and Zinayah Jackman, two (pictured).

Martin Marshall, chairman of the Royal College of GPs, told MPs that patients who 'absolutely need' to be in the same room as their doctor are being seen.

Rioters who turned Melbourne into a battleground have left dozens of white supremacist stickers in their wake after they marched over the Westgate Bridge.

Men dressed as clowns were seen staring at children and asking them to 'follow them' in Singapore, forcing school principles warn parents to remind their children 'not to be lured by strangers'.

The 31-year-old was granted exemption to travel from Sydney to Byron Bay at 7.30am on Saturday morning on Virgin flight 1141 for a weekend working on the Network 10 reality show.

Jessica Schultz, 38, told the FBI on September 16 that she saw a man she is '100 per cent certain' was Brian Laundrie on August 26, 27 and 28 near Spread Creek campsite - where Gabby Petito's body was.

The boyfriend of a mother found dead alongside her two children and one of their best friends after a sleepover in Killamarsh, Derbyshire, was this morning charged with their murders.

The terror group nominated Suhail Shaheen, their spokesman based in Doha, as Afghanistan's new ambassador to the UN, in a written request to the organisation.

Some 200 homes on the Spanish island of La Palma have so-far been torched by lava spewed from an erupting volcano, amid warnings that 1,000 more are at risk as it inches towards the ocean.

Barry Morphew turned to aggressive fauna to explain away evidence linking him to his wife's disappearance last year, including 'chasing a chipmunk with a gun' around the house.

Rockhampton Fire and Rescue Services were called to a stormwater drain, after reports an echidna was stuck in Berserker, Queensland. After the rescue, the firies snapped a cute picture.

Mack Miller was violently thrown into a metal detector as security guards kicked him out of a meeting at Clark County Commission Office COVID-19 meeting.

Megan Scotcher, 28, from Ripley, Derbyshire, admitted a charge of fraud by false representation after accepting charitable donations between June and December last year.

Anna and Mikhail Presnov, aged 10 and seven, are believed to have climbed into the chest and suffocated after its latch closed, preventing them from opening the heavy lid.

Alannah Jane, 25,  penned a heartbreaking letter to those who have attended the violent rallies against vaccine mandates for the construction industry which have wreaked havoc across Melbourne.

Danika Ross, 10, drowned after being sucked into an irrigation pipe at a pond in Quincy, Washington which the family say is on property owned by Cave B Estate Winery.

Elise Shrimpton was 18 and still attending high school when she was arrested after a scuffle outside Adelaide's Envy Nightclub in the early hours of September 27 last year.

Minister for Trade and Tourism Dan Tehan has confirmed to travel-hungry Australians the nation was on track to ease travel restrictions this year, with overseas holidays back 'by Christmas at the latest'.

A magnitude 5.8 quake on Wednesday rocked Melbourne and demolished part of a restaurant on the city's famous Chapel Street - with residents as far away as Sydney feeling the tremors.

Punters need proof of their double jab before entering bars, clubs, restaurants and sports matches when they re-open as early as October 11. But the NSW vaccine passport may not be approved in time.

Australia is being urged to adopt widespread rapid screening to pick up fully vaccinated coronavirus carriers without symptoms who could unknowingly transmit the disease.

Homicide detectives are searching for Christopher Hillman after a man believed to be known to him was found dead in Melbourne's southeast on Saturday night.

An organised scouts camp at Landsborough, north Brisbane has left 25 children in hospital after a gastro outbreak overnight.

Top executives at Facebook are reportedly trying to take an offensive approach to the company's bad publicity - in part by pushing pro-Facebook news items directly onto a user's News Feed.

TikToks with the hashtag #ElizabethHolmes have received 13 million views on the platform, with many users imitating Holmes' mannerisms while wearing her signature black turtleneck.

Brazil's presidential office announced on Tuesday that Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga had tested positive for the virus and will be quarantining in New York for two weeks amid the UN meeting.

West Australian Premier Mark McGowan said on Sunrise the state will remain closed to NSW and Victorian travellers until beyond Christmas, as social restrictions on WA residents would remain.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki was put on defense during a sit-down interview with 'CBS Mornings' when anchor Gayle King  the Biden administration's 'very bad behavior.'

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer demanded the Biden administration stop deportation flights of Haitian migrants and cease using Title 42 to expel them.

The Asian hostess who was attacked by three black women at Carmine's had only been working at the famed New York City restaurant for a few days, a staffer has revealed to Dailymail.com.

Footage from the CBD shows dozens of police officers handcuffing at least one male and two female demonstrators on Wednesday morning.

Brodie Lancaster shared the footage to Twitter on Wednesday morning after filming her pure white cat, called Carol, playing with her new toy.

A teenager has died after a heart-breaking car crash in which he slammed into the tree he walked past every day on his way home from school in Christchurch New Zealand.

Footy fans have been warned to be cautious when buying tickets for Saturday's AFL grand final.

A Sydney woman who travelled to Byron Bay to work on the reality TV show 'I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!' and then tested positive for Covid-19 is now facing criminal charges.

Luchiano Lewis, 16, was charged with second-degree murder as well as first-degree and second-degree robbery on Tuesday for his role in the murder of Tessa Majors, 18, in 2019, court said.

Current lockdown orders for regional NSW towns Albury and Lismore will be officially lifted for residents from midnight on Wednesday. NSW Health confirmed the update via a statement.

Disneyland is giving Jessica Rabbit a politically-correct makeover as a private investigator on the Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin ride, with her wearing a trench coat and a fedora.

A talented young football star has opened his eyes for the first time in two weeks after an alleged unprovoked attack left him in a coma and fighting for life.

A street cleaner has been slammed for appearing to shoot a homeless person with a jet washer while they are lying in their makeshift bed in Camden.

The huge trove of information could take months or years to sift through, experts caution, but far-right activists who used the web hosting service Epik are already being named and shamed.

A leading seismologist says one of the factors that led to 13 people dying in the 1989 Newcastle earthquake could have killed people on Chapel Street in Melbourne during Wednesday's quake.

An aggressive magpie recently met its match in Melbourne after taking on a drone mid-air. The footage was uploaded online, prompting a number of hilarious responses.

A man is in police custody following the death of another man at the Cairns Central shopping centre on Wednesday morning. Detective Inspector Kev Goan has confirmed the victim was stabbed.

The Reserve Bank of Australia has warned that a surge in house prices could be bad for the economy as Sydney and Melbourne emerge from lockdowns.

Hollywood veteran and 60s sex symbol Raquel Welch, 81, was seen stepping out in Beverly Hills during a trip to the Heritage auction house on Friday, DailyMail.com photos show.

The Victorian government is set to announce vaccine mandates for another industry just days after rolling out the measure for construction workers sparked violent mass protests in Melbourne.

A surveillance camera captured the moment the homeless man waves a chair over his head, appearing to threaten the handyman who holds his hands up to stop the first attack.

Amy Farrugia shared the video to TikTok on Tuesday, where she explained the situation and shopped for supplies to set up her partner Jake's new accommodation in their Newcastle home.

The promising footballer's future in sport as a player and a coach is hanging in the balance after a growing backlash over his 'appalling' thuggish behaviour.

A celebrity eyebrow artist has allegedly been caught buying cocaine after her drug dealer was pulled over by police for driving erratically.

Evergrande has defaulted on its debts and credit ratings agency S&P is expecting China to let it fail. This has major implications for Australia which relies on exporting iron ore.

Ms Smith died at the scene, along with her six-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son.

Stipe Lijovic took his own life at the Crema Construction site on Spencer Street in Melbourne's West just hours after a two-week ban on construction was announced.

Annastacia Palaszczuk has demanded an apology from Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt, saying she had been 'relentlessly attacked' over the issue of childhood vaccination against Covid.

Victoria has announced an 'Australian first' $190million package to roll out air purifiers in public schools as children finally return to the classroom in Term 4.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has admitted that mandatory hotel quarantine is 'tough'.

Scott Morrison has held a press conference from Washington to provide an update on the 6 earthquake that rocked Melbourne and regional Victoria on Wednesday.

Sydney has cancelled its famous New Year's Eve fireworks display for a second year running, but NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian may yet come to the rescue

Today show host Allison Langdon said no country had hit 90% vaccination rate, but she's wrong, Ireland already has.

NSW is another step closer to eased restrictions as the state recorded 1035 new coronavirus cases and five deaths.

Police rushed to the Isle of Dogs, east London, around 8.30pm last night after reports of a group of males fighting. A man, believed to be in his 30s, had suffered stab wounds. He died at the scene.

Two bison get a fight over a female during mating season at Yellowstone National Park. The pair were filmed ramming into each other in a battle of dominance.

The father of Bryson and Brayden McDaniel, 20 months, will not face charges for their death after he forgot them in his car on September 1, the sheriff's department reported.

Shattered family and friends have paid tribute to the 'deeply caring' woman whose body was found inside a cabin in remote forest last weekend on the NSW mid-north coast.

Brian Laundrie's father Christopher Laundrie broke cover for the first time Tuesday - but refused to answer questions about his missing son, a person of interest in Gabby Petito's disappearance.