Dr Chaand Nagpul, the head of the British Medical Association, laid into ministers last night and warned they must ramp up Covid control measures 'now' to stop the NHS being overwhelmed.

The new trade deal to cut tariffs and slash red tape was agreed in principle by Boris Johnson and New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern yesterday.

Robot artist Ai-Da has been detained by Egyptian security forces in Cairo on suspicion of being part of a spying plot and officials have demanded the removal of her eyes - which contain cameras.

Star Hobson died in September 2020 from injuries she received at her home in Keighley, West Yorkshire, Bradford Crown Court was told.

Sherrilyn Speid, 34, was accused of 'attempted murder' by one climate activist after she gently drove her car into protesters at Junction 31 of the M25 near Thurrock on October 13.

The Health Secretary said the UK bought 480,000 antiviral molnupiravir pills made by US pharmaceutical company Merck and 250,000 Pf073 courses from Belgian firm Pfizer.

On a stretch of the M62 in Manchester, a staggering 24 of the 36 roadside message screens are broken while two overhead gantry signs stopped working for a month. Insiders branded it 'dire'.

Police are probing claims that Ali Harbi Ali, 25, the suspect in the killing of Sir David Amess, may have planned to target another MP.

The Metropolitan Police Commissioner confirmed that the guidance, which sparked outrage when issued in the wake of Sarah Everard's murder by serving PC Wayne Couzens, had been axed.

Originally titled the 'Festival of Brexit' when it was revealed in 2018, the £120million ceremony was first coined as a way of championing Britain's decision to leave the European Union.

DAN WOOTTON: At 95 years of age, she doesn't consider herself to be old, despite the furore over her decision to start using a walking stick at some public events. Pictured: Her Majesty on Thursday.

Ho Van Lang survived in the Vietnamese jungle for more than four decades after he and his father fled society in 1972 when US carpet bombing during the Vietnam War killed half of his family.

Video posted to Twitter apparently shows Michael Chaves and sovereign citizen 'Jamie Freeman' serving NHS staff at Colchester Hospital with bogus legal notices about the Nuremberg Code.

Martin Twort, 31, raped a woman at knifepoint after he spotted her walking home from visiting a patient at Northampton General Hospital in 2012.

Rowan Nash Lascelles, 43, would simply ignore the proposed Criminal Behaviour Order and take his offending to other neighbourhoods, Deputy District Judge Olwen Davies ruled.

Britons are expected to wake up to a deluge of surface water following a night of torrential rain caused by a storm that was yesterday named Aurore by Météo-France.

Police officers and ambulance crews were called to Charter Avenue in Ilford, east London, at around 6.30pm yesterday after the 13-year-old was stabbed.

A model for a tax on 'high-carbon foods' was drawn up for the UK Government as ministers explore ways to tackle rising global temperatures.

They spelt out their opposition in an open letter to the Health Secretary signed by 1,689 doctors, nurses, pharmacists and medical students.

The Harry Potter author's children's story - The Christmas Pig - has shot to the top of the official UK charts, selling It sold 60,010 copies during its first week - double that of the book in second place.

Priti Patel said industry leaders will develop technology to entrap fraudsters who send fake texts. The initiative aims to correct the shocking neglect suffered by fraud victims.

The image, which was presented to employees as part of an internal BBC course set up in conjunction with the lobby group, depicts sex as a spectrum.

Inflation figures mean the state mention will rise by 3.1 per cent, handing pensioners an extra £4.25 a week. But rising energy and food costs mean pensioners face extra costs of £22 a week.

Vulnerable Afghans, including unaccompanied children, have become stranded in tented camps awaiting flights to the UK, MPs heard yesterday.

The taste test panel looked at the chocolate treats available from nine top-selling Advent calendars, ranging in price from £9.99 to £68.

Researchers from the Clalit Research Institute in Israel analysed data from 94,354 adolescents who had received two doses of the Pfizer vaccine.

Russia had worked for years to establish contacts with the Taliban, even though it designated the group a terror organisation in 2003 and never took it off the list.

The average price of used cars has surged by 24% in twelve months in a sales frenzy, wiht some used models being sold for up to £7,000 more than they were new.

EXCLUSIVE: Lisa Keogh, 29, was investigated by Abertay University in Dundee after classmates complained she made 'inappropriate comments' which 'could be construed as discriminatory'.

The woman, who did not want to be identified, said the monstrosity has loomed high over her fence since being dropped just steps away from her living room doors in Hull 18 months ago.

Royal photographer Chris Jackson, took to Instagram and explained how he captured a series of behind-the-scene pictures from the inaugural event at Alexandra Palace in London.

Plain clothes Met Police officers will prove they are no threat to women by FaceTiming uniformed supervisors - as the force tries to win back trust lost by killer cop Wayne Couzens.

Former Ukip leader Nigel Farage has been tricked into wishing 'Gerard from Brighton' and team leader of Tiocfaidh ár lá, a happy birthday. The phrase, which is Irish, means 'our day will come' in English.

Andrew Carvel, from Tamworth, Staffordshire, erected the giant ship which is 30ft long and 9ft wide and just fits inside the boundary of his property along with his fiancée Lisa Tarren.

Home Secretary Priti Patel has demanded an update from police investigating the scale of the so-called 'spiking epidemic' after reports of incidents in Nottingham, Scotland and Northern Ireland

Steven Bowkett, 33, trawled missing pet websites looking for women's phone numbers and then messaged them pretending that he had found their dog.

Professor Martin Marshall, chair of the Royal College of GPs, said doctors were too overworked to help with the booster drive. He added that many were having to prioritise clearing a backlog of patients.

Farai Hombarume (pictured), 53, from Thornaby, Teesside, was considered a sex pest by female colleagues at a psychiatric unit, who dreaded his sexualised 'banter' at work.

Katharine Birbalsingh, who developed a reputation as one of the country's toughest headteachers, insisted the devices should be off limits.

Cardiff Crown Court heard today that the doomed aircraft's owner Fay Keely had emailed David Henderson, pictured, that he should not employ David Ibbotson again due to safety concerns.

A woman stabbed her husband to death following a row over serving bubble and squeak with a steak for her birthday, a court heard.

The stern warning came as research found households expected to end up paying as much as £23 more per week for food, non-alcoholic drinks, electricity, gas and motor fuel by the end of the year.

The 95-year-old monarch - who has been seen using a walking stick at engagements over the past week - is said to be in good spirits but disappointed not to be able to carry out the trip.

Brenda Morris shot to fame following her performance of Pink's So What on the ITV talent show in 2010. The retired chemistry lecturer was kicked off stage just seconds into her audition.

Health Secretary Sajid Javid claimed the emergency powers were 'still necessary and proportionate to help with the pressure' as 223 Covid deaths were recorded in the UK on Tuesday.

EXCLUSIVE: Official data shows how the AY.4.2 Delta variant has surged from London and the South East across the whole of England. Scientists say it may have first appeared in the UK.

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng struck a different tone after a Treasury assessment warned that new levies will be needed to cover the costs of the transition.

Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, six, was killed after suffering months of systematic abuse 'designed to terrorise' the youngster at home in Solihull, West Midlands, prosecutors claim.

A plan to give ministers new powers to bill consumers for using products that cannot be reused or recycled are set to be announced by the Government today.

Footage recorded on Tuesday morning shows a Greg's Courier HGV driving down the busy M1 motorway near Luton with a white Volkswagen VW attached to its front bumper.

A survey of more than 5,000 women in the UK with hyperemesis gravidarum (HG), the largest of its kind, found 5 per cent terminate their pregnancy because of the illness.

In Ashley Banjo: Britain in Black and White, which aired on ITV yesterday, the dancer, 33, revealed that Jim had agreed to have a 'real, direct, honest' conversation 'after weeks of negotiation'.

Presenters Ant and Dec compered the charity event in London yesterday, but stumbled when they introduced the Duchess of Cambridge as 'Her Majesty' instead of 'Her Royal Highness'

Two adults and two children have been taken to hospital following a severe explosion at a house in Ayr which was heard for miles around.

The food supply chain crisis has left Pizza Express without ingredients to make spaghetti bolognese. It follows problems with imports from Italy and disruption to deliveries.

The bill - which is 2.2 per cent higher than last year - includes maintaining 10,258 hospitals and other buildings across England, as well as ambulance services.

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Meghan Markle, duchess of Sussex, made a rare and personal political statement on Wednesday as she wrote a letter to Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer advocating for paid family leave.

The footage was captured by Wing Na Wong, 38, on Main Street in Danbury, Connecticut. The bizarre contraption appears to be powered by a remote control monster truck.

A 14-year-old boy has been charged with the murder of five-year-old Logan Mwangi, from Bridgend, South Wales Police have said.

Victoria is set to scrap all quarantine requirements for vaccinated Australian travellers within weeks, as Melburnians prepare to depart from to the world's longest lockdown.

A HGV driver had a lucky escape after his trailer plunged into Bristol Harbour earlier today. The truck reversed through a metal railing and crashed into the water shortly after 6am today.

Footage shows the small dog being left with his tail between his legs as he walks back into his crate after his owner caught him returning to their home in the Compton area of Los Angeles, California.

The low-pressure system named Storm Aurore barrelled along the English Channel overnight, bringing more than two inches of rain and 77mph winds in the worst-affected areas of the South.

Mahjabin Hakimi, a rising star of Kabul Municipality Volleyball Club, was mercilessly slaughtered by the jihadists earlier this month, her coach told The Persian Independent.

Human remains belonging to a 'child or small adult' have been found in sand dunes in South Australia's south east. 

Devon and Cornwall Police say a woman reported being assaulted in Fever & Boutique in Exeter on Saturday October 16. It comes following reports of other incidents across the UK.

The AFL has announced a bombshell vaccine mandate requiring all players across both the men's and women's competitions to get a Covid jab or be barred from taking the field. 

That NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet, the father of a large young family, would throw a huge sum of taxpayer cash at parents isn't that surprising, but it is shocking.

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Alan Dyke, 69, suffered multiple facial fractures and a bleed on the brain when he was attacked inside his new home in Hull earlier this year.

The men are understood to have travelled by boat from their homes in Tenerife to reach dangerous out-of-bounds areas near the 1075 degree Celsius lava under the cover of darkness.

With cases rising, the former prime minister says the Government needs to act 'rapidly and decisively' to avoid the need for another lockdown as winter approaches.

The government borrowed another £21.8billion - the second highest on record for September but below official forecasts and down from £28.8billion last year.

Doreen Lofthouse's £41m fortune, made after she transformed Fisherman's Friends from a Lancashire-based firm into an international powerhouse, will go to her Lofthouse Foundation charity.

Alok Sharma is furious with Boris Johnson for talking up the COP26 summit as a make or break moment for the planet, it was claimed today.

Jonathan Smith, 61, leapt into the water when the boys, seven and ten, got into difficulty in the strong currents in the craggy bay of Gouves, on the north of the Greek island.

David Sassoli, president of the European Parliament, issued the threat as leaders of the EU's 27 nations met in Brussels today for two days of talks with Poland set to be top of the agenda.

Countries including Australia, Saudi Arabia, Brazil and Japan are reportedly among the countries asking the UN to play down the need to move rapidly away from fossil fuels.

More than 650 people in 37 states have become ill in a salmonella outbreak linked to onions imported from Mexico and at least 129 people have been hospitalized as of Wednesday.

The unvaccinated Uber driver who is 'so sick with Covid he can barely speak' and publicly labelled Daniel Andrews a 'gronk' has been identified as Duran Raman.

Harris, now 57, celebrated her birthday from the White House with gifts from President Joe Biden and a chocolate cake from staffers in a White House dining room.

Diners in their droves are eating away from Sydney's CBD, as the likes of Newtown, Manly and Parramatta thrive. Work-from-home trend devastates city businesses.

A product manager working for defunct Silicon Valley startup Theranos has testified that the founder Elizabeth Holmes was warned that claims about her technology were excessive, yet continued.

The New York City mayoral debate got personal on Wednesday night with Democratic candidate Eric Adams branding opponent Curtis Sliwa a criminal and Sliwa saying Adams is an elitist.

Hunter reportedly made the offer to aluminum giant Alcoa, saying he could provide the company 'with statistical analysis of political and corporate risks, elite networks' associated with Deripaska.

In the wake of Thursday's announcement, many questioned why only some NSW residents have been given the cash boost.

Glenn Youngkin attacked his opponent, former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, saying the Democrat was at odds with what parents want in Virginia regarding critical race theory and other 'woke' policies.

EXCLUSIVE: The 'right to die' campaign has received a boost as former Cabinet minister Michael Forsyth said he had changed his mind after a deathbed encounter with his father John.

The premier, flanked by Police Minister Paul Papalia and Deputy Commissioner Col Blanch, said on Thursday he would continue to 'support the investigation into the disappearance of Cleo'.

The Health Secretary warned there could be more coronavirus restrictions if people 'don't wear masks when they really should in a really crowded place'.

The Health Secretary said people should consider taking lateral flow tests before seeing friends and family at Christmas parties.

Former Australian jockey Greg Hall has detailed the moment media tycoon Kerry Packer walked away with a $20m payout from Derby Day in 1993.

Drone footage captured off Sydney's Bronte Beach shows local legend Alex the seal using waves to catch fish as amazed surfers watch on.

A potential deal to help Evergrande pay off its massive debt has fallen through. Now China's second biggest property could collapse in days if it misses a key debt deadline extension.

A McAuliffe spokesman on Wednesday shared screenshots of his text messages with WJLA-TV reporter Nick Minock, which purport to show the interview was scheduled for 10 minutes, not 20.

Australian vlogger Sarah Stevenson, who goes by Sarah's Day online, announced last month she was expecting her second child with her photographer boyfriend, Kurt Tilse.

Northern NSW is cleaning up after a 'supercell' hail storm hit parts of the region yesterday, turning entire suburbs into carpets of white. NSW SES said it was responding to more than 850 requests for help.

A Gold Coast resident has tested positive to Covid-19 - bringing an end Queensland's short run of coronavirus-free days.

Victoria has hit its 70 per cent Covid vaccination double dose target as the state prepares to open up tomorrow after 262 days of lockdown.

West Australian Premier Mark McGowan will make an important announcement about missing four-year-old Cleo Smith.

WA Police confirmed that everyone who was at the campsite where four-year-old Cleo Smith disappeared is a potential person of interest.

The explosion happened at a restaurant in Liaoning Province at 8.20am on Thursday morning (local time).

Stephanie Wheeler finally gave up and moved from Newcastle to Tommy Esau's home town in the Solomon Islands after he was denied an exemption from Australia's border ban 17 times.

The new Trump Media & Technology Group said it will create a rival social network to the current 'liberal media consortium.' Former President Donald Trump will serve as the company chairman.

John Beatty, the only conservative member of Loudoun County's school board, has said he fully supports an investigation into an alleged rape in the girl's bathroom of a school in May.

The 42,000 state workers in Oregon had until Monday to be fully vaccinated, get a religious exemption or get fired. As of Monday, 4,281 of them, or 11 percent, got a religious pass.

Authorities believe that Wambles' boyfriend, William Shane Parker, is the one who shot Raul Ambriz Guillen. Parker is awaiting trial on a charge of second degree murder with a firearm.

Former Superman colorist Gabe Eltaeb announced he was quitting DC Comics in a podcast October 13 in response to the decisions to make Superman bisexual and change his slogan

President Biden repeated a story about being congratulated by an Amtrak conductor for traveling by rail even though the employee was dead at the time the event supposedly took place.

Sydneysiders living on Holt Street, in Surry Hills got the fright of their lives when they spotted the naked pair together in a communal garden and barbecue area at about 11am on Wednesday.

MPs said proposals which would make it harder to get a mortgage on poorly-insulated homes would turn many homeowners into 'mortgage prisoners' trapped in unsellable houses.

Renowned beauty Margot Robbie came in third, but also on the last were former premier Gladys Berejiklian, Dr Kerry Chant, ABC 7.30 report host Leigh Sales, and Brittany Higgins.

Onetime magazine journalist Phoebe hit out at Wilkinson in an essay she wrote but did not have published during an alleged sexting incident involving her then husband Sam.

A cyclist has died after a suspected hit and run incident in regional Victoria early on Thursday morning. The tragedy unfolded in in Delacombe, near Ballarat, just after 5.45am.

Larry searched for 'plant you take to never wake up' in March 2020, 10 months before Maya was last seen alive on January 7. In December, he searched for date rape drug Rohypnol and Benadryl.

Neighbours say Toufik Hamze, 64, was a lonely man who 'no one cared about', before he was gunned down with his son Salim, 18, outside their rental in Guildford, north-west Sydney.

Isaiah Dixon, Thomas Courto and Bree-Anna Thomas were reported missing from Wynyard in Tasmania on Monday and the bodies of Ms Thomas and Mr Dixon were found on Wednesday.

Pru Goward, the mum of ex-model Tziporah Malkah, has been blasted in Parliament for saying poor people lacked housekeeping skills. She was previously community services minister.

Eddie Obeid, his son Moses and former Labor minister Ian McDonald have each been jailed for conspiracy charges.

The words 'Vaxx Macht Frei' and the swastika symbol appeared on concrete road barriers and on the side of a building at Punt Road and Olympic Boulevard in Melbourne on Thursday.

Three men in Sydney's west have been charged with a raft of offences after police uncovered 295kg of the drug ice sent to Sydney hidden inside a digger imported from Hong Kong.

Premier Daniel Andrews has snubbed Melburnians as they prepare to leave what has been the longest period of Covid-19 lockdown on the planet. 

Madie Nicpon, a much-loved member of the Tufts University lacrosse team, died on Sunday at a Boston hospital, the day after choking during a hot dog eating contest.

The vouchers will be available through Service NSW for households which had a least one school-aged child in 2021. They can be claimed from March, are valid until October.

Why Gladys will be having nightmares about the number '0.88': Explosive corruption probe evidence about Daryl Maguire's $5.5M pet project.

Michelle Freeman, the grief-stricken girlfriend of Ashley McGowan who died in a freak motorbike accident on the Sunshine Coast on Tuesday, has revealed his heartbreaking final moments.

Prosecutors on Wednesday said that they were not intending on pressing charges against Philadelphia train riders who filmed a rape rather than helping the victim.

Hill, 34, is now 21 weeks pregnant with her first child, she and her partner Alex Thomas, a former reporter for Playboy turned novelist, revealed in an interview with the magazine.

The former attorney general accepted an undisclosed donation from a blind trust to pay for his legal battle against the ABC which was settled in May.

Roger Peter McGrath will be sentenced on Thursday afternoon for the kidnapping of his 76-year-old mother, after he was told he would need to move out of her home.

Two unidentified individuals wearing hooded jackets were caught on amateur video during a brazen 'smash-and-grab' spree in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Murder victim Shandee Blackburn, 23, had visited a psychic about her jealous boyfriend shortly before she was stabbed to death while walking home Mackay's Harrup Park Country Club in 2013.

The parents of Daniel Morcombe said Cleo Smith's story has given them 'immediate flashbacks' and they are praying for her to be found safe and alive.

Jury candidates who visited the Glynn County Superior Court website to learn about the jury duty process had easy access to all the motions filed so far on Arbery and the three suspected killers.

Karen Ferry, who is half Chinese and half European, told the ABC's Gruen program on Wednesday: 'Shopping sucks, it's not great.

Clinton, 75, issued the statement via his official Twitter account Wednesday evening, and spoke in the grounds of his upstate New York home.

Six days after she disappeared from her tent at the Blowholes campsite north of Carnarvon in Western Australia, Cleo's little friends are starting to ask questions about where she is.

Social media has gone into meltdown over the footage filmed in Mount Isa, which shows a mysterious flash light up in the sky for several seconds.

A second young woman has been charged over the alleged kidnapping of a 14-year-old girl - who police claim was later injected with heroin and threatened with a blowtorch.

Steve Bannon invited Congressman Matt Gaetz onto his podcast on Wednesday, shortly after he was held in contempt of Congress. Bannon asked Gaetz: 'You've said for a while this is all a set up.'

John Larter, a veteran Tumut paramedic is going to court to seek relief from being fully vaccinated, despite recent NSW Supreme Court rulings going in favour of the vaccine mandate.

Daniel Andrews has been humiliated as a 'world-first' study that justified his mandatory mask mandate was described by leading researchers as 'crap'.

CCTV footage captured the moment a brawl broke out between two men at the Nerang RSL on the Gold Coast.

Gladys Berejiklian giggles and grins after one of her 'closest friends' condemned her for Daryl love affair - here's why she won't be smiling for long.

The Senate voted 51-49, along party lines, which meant the Freedom to Vote Act fell short of the 60 votes needed to beat the filibuster and proceed to the next stage.

A 41-year-old man has been rushed to hospital suffering severe burns to 80 per cent of his body after an apartment explosion in Newcastle.

Police raided four properties around Sydney on Tuesday and three men are facing possible life sentences after being charged over their alleged role in the importation.

All Woolworths and Coles staff will be required to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 in the coming months.

A paper published on a Government website urging people to go greener to 'embarrass' frequent flyers and 'shifts dietary habits' away from meat has been deleted.

A map has shown the possible roads the missing four-year-old may have travelled on after she vanished from the Blowholes campsite near Carnarvon in WA on Saturday morning.