Boris Johnson has called Russia's invasion of Ukraine a 'disastrous misbegotten venture by President Putin' as the Kremlin's forces continue to face resistance.

Blasts have been heard both in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and the country's second biggest city of Kharkiv on Monday morning after a relatively quiet night in both cities.

It comes at the worst time for BA, with bookings at their highest since the start of the pandemic after the UK and most European countries ditched Covid traveller tests for fully vaccinated holidaymakers.

Modelling from Professor Neil Ferguson (pictured) and colleagues at Imperial College London published on March 16, 2020, predicted the NHS would be overwhelmed within weeks.

Staying fit into middle age can reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease by up to a third, a study suggests. Even small gains in heart and lung health can be hugely beneficial.

Kristina Rihanoff came under fire over the weekend for raging: 'I don't give a s**t about the war' on Twitter when complaining about the impact of the pandemic on her business.

An airport cargo worked was crushed to death by a high-loader on Wednesday at Heathrow Airport while working for contractor Dnata in loading cargo pallets at Terminal 3.

The Ukrainian  military published several videos this weekend that it claims shows a Turkish armed drone carrying out strikes against Russian forces in the south of the country.

Ex-Eton pupil Sacha Jafri (pictured) will have his latest piece set 'eternally' on the lunar surface as part of the £70billion Artemis I mission later this year.

Gemma Fernandez met up with Bronson, 69l, who is dubbed 'Britain's most violent prisoner', last December after Covid restrictions eased at the high-security jail HMP Woodhill in Milton Keynes.

Television architect George Clarke, 47, has been forced to part ways with a striking £40,000 observatory he had built as a tribute to his late father, following his divorce from his wife.

A private militia known as the Wagner Group 'has orders from Vladimir Putin to decapitate Zelensky's government to pave the way for Moscow to take over.'

Mikhail Fridman and Oleg Deripaska have condemned Putin's invasion by calling for peace talks 'as fast as possible' between the two countries in an unusual intervention.

Downing Street said the funding will help aid agencies respond to the deteriorating humanitarian situation by providing Ukraine with medical supplies.

A woman claims a doctor told her to go home and watch Netflix after she was rushed to A&E with a headache - which turned out to be a brain tumour.

Ursula von der Leyen announced the new measures in a press conference this afternoon, in which she also revealed fresh sanctions against the regime in Belarus.

Questions remain over whether the monarch is helping him foot the bill, which includes a £2million donation to Ms Giuffre's charity, which helps victims of sexual assault and trafficking.

GENERAL RICHARD DANNATT: Could Vladimir Putin's threat be a strategic bluff? Despite his massive military capability, Russian progress in Ukraine has been slower than he would have liked.

BEL MOONEY: At times like this it is not enough to shed a tear at the heart-rending picture of a toddler screaming in terror at a packed train window.

A badly contorted section of the B4069 near Lyneham in Wiltshire has suffered earthquake-like damage, causing officials to commission a report from experts to find out how it became so warped.

The expressions of army general Valery Gerasimov and defence minister Sergey Shoygu were caught on camera as the Russian president put his atomic arsenal on stand-by.

Dog owners who dress up their pets in outfits may have to accept their love has got out of hand, vets warn. A study suggests that pet owners who do so may see the animals as almost human.

US researchers believe a drug called rapamycin could extend the average lifespan of a dog by as much as a third. Previous experiments in mice found it can extend lifespan by up to 30 per cent.

Staff members at Cardiff University say they have faced a 'campaign of intimidation and harassment' for raising concerns about the institution's links campaign group Stonewall.

Peak-time commuters between London and Birmingham, who pay between £52 and £188, could get return flights to 51 European places from London airports for the same price range or less.

The move by the Unite trade union, which represents more than 1.4million workers, comes despite it previously taking action against companies that have proposed similar steps.

Former President Donald Trump laid down a marker to other possible Republican 2024 runners by winning 59 percent support of attendees at a major conservative gathering in Florida.

A former Leeds student has made millions after joining OnlyFans and filming herself living out punters' fantasies ranging from pouring beans over her body to pretending to be a giant.

Ken Stewart, 54, from Edinburgh, his Ukrainian wife Tanya (pictured), 36, and their two young children were battling to reach the sanctuary of Poland yesterday before heading to Britain.

Millions of people are changing their food shopping habits in an effort to beat growing prices by switching to 'yellow sticker' reduced items and cheaper ranges in supermarkets.

A new Economic Crime Bill will force foreign shell companies holding property in the UK - including the mansions of oligarchs close to Vladimir Putin - to reveal identities of the true owners.

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: As a schoolboy in the 1980s, I vividly remember the paranoia of the decades that followed. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, I assumed those days were over.

The eight-year-old royal was spotted in the stands at Twickenham Stadium between Prince William, 39, and the Duchess of Cambridge, 40, who were in direct competition.

Lord (Greg) Barker has earned up to £6 million a year as executive chairman of aluminium giant EN+, which boasts sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska as a major shareholder.

After the weekend's sunshine, Brits can expect 'changeable weather' over the next week. Warnings are in place for flooding in some areas of the country as there will be rain tonight.

Kacey, 13, was last seen in Willenhall, West Midlands before midnight on February 25 and cops have been trying to locate her ever since.

Today, further petrol queues were spotted at Costco in Bushey, Watford, despite being urged not to panic buy. Queues of cars stretched out of the forecourt as people waited to get in.

Shayne Pooley, a councillor who sits on Ipswich Borough Council, has been suspended by the Conservative Party after he made pro-Putin social media posts, which he has since disavowed.

Peter Mandelson, pictured with Qatari minister Ahmad Al-Sayed, right, opened a new office for his consultancy business in Doha, leading to criticism due to their government's human rights record.

After 9/11, we became laser-focused on a threat from an ideology not from a great power. We 'went to war against terror'. We succeeded and failed writes NIALL FERGUSON.

The Pope has intervened over the invasion of Ukraine, describing war-waging as a 'shameful capitulation', just hours after an unprecedented visit to the Russian embassy.

Bo Bruce, 37, has described her High Court battle with her viscount brother over their multimillion pound inheritance as a 'way to tackle the patriarchy.'

Major Hugh Lindsay, a former equerry to the Queen, died after being hit by a wall of snow and ice in Klosters on March 10, 1988.

Mega Mansion Hunters is based on an estate agents founded by Tyron Ashraf, 36, in 2019 - four years after he was given a 40-month prison sentence for cocaine possession with intent to supply.

NICK HARRIS: The Mail on Sunday can reveal that Abramovich remains the owner and Saturday night's announcement is 'symbolic' rather than technical.

MATT BARLOW: He has given virtually none of himself to public scrutiny from his takeover at Stamford Bridge in 2003 to Saturday evening,

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle asked for the world to help support the Ukraine as they accepted the President's Award at the NAACP Image Awards on Saturday for their public service achievements.

Hollymount Primary School in Raynes Park, South London, hosted the burlesque entertainer Dolly Trolley during its 'This Is Me' day last Tuesday as part of a week-long celebration of diversity.

OLIVER HOLT: This weekend, as Kyiv fought and Kyiv burned and Kyiv mourned, London got busy washing away blood with a festival of laundering.

SIR ANTONY BEEVOR: Leon Trotsky and other Bolshevik intellectuals dismissed Joseph Stalin as a pock-marked Georgian gangster until it was too late.

SARAH VINE: After much umming and ahhing and a good deal of cajoling, yesterday the EU finally did the right thing and agreed to join Britain in strengthening sanctions against Putin.

In a BBC radio interview, Justin Welby makes his admission to Dr Susan Blackmore, a psychologist and atheist, after she expressed doubts about whether she would ever convert to a faith.

Murdered toddler James Bulger's father has intervened to try and stop his son's killer Jon Venables from being released from prison - saying he 'will kill again'.

Isle of Wight Councillor Lora Peacey-Willcox shared a Facebook post with a collection of the dolls, which were popular in the 1970s but are now considered racist, in the background.

A source said the Duke of York, who turned 62 last Saturday, has been struggling with the public humiliation of the £12million sex case settlement.

The Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme (VDPS) allows people who are severely disabled due to a vaccination to claim a one-off tax-free payment of £120,000.

The Conservatives are facing 'electoral wipeout' following the Partygate scandal, a pollster warned, as data shows they are on track to lose a staggering 164 MPs

Although it is hard to pin down the exact dates of his predictions - laid out in his famous 1555 book Les Propheties - it is believed he envisioned there would be a major conflict this spring.

Moscow has been refusing to admit to suffering casualties during their invasion of Ukraine, but photographs showing burned out armoured vehicles and dead soldiers are emerging.

Mancunian Jeremy Myers became caught up in a 'crush' at the Polish border with his Ukrainian girlfriend Maria Romanenko as people queued for 25 hours to escape bombs in the war-torn country.

Ben Wallace on hearing that Ukraine's citizens are told to throw Molotov cocktails at the invaders, the Defence Secretary says: 'The nature of war is… everyone is involved.'

Ernest Hemingway's classic novel The Old Man And The Sea is the latest victim of today's woke standards, with students warned that it contains 'graphic fishing scenes'.

Newman University, Birmingham, tells students studying the holy book that the module 'includes themes of sexual violence and abuse - in images and biblical texts'.

Roman Abramovich has tonight handed over Chelsea FC to the trustees of the club's charitable foundation.

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WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: These upsetting pictures chart the fight to save a little girl wearing pink unicorn pyjamas who was fatally injured in a Mariupol apartment block yesterday.

An urgent danger to life warning has been issued as floodwaters submerge the city of Lismore on the northern NSW coast on Monday and more rain expected for Tuesday..

Kyiv remained under Ukrainian control early Monday despite another night of Russian bombing and attacks, with Putin's forces suffering 'heavy losses', Ukraine's commander said.

Lismore local John, 86, was rescued from rising floodwater on Monday and after struggling aboard a boat gave a typically Australian response to the weather event.

The incident happened on the A46 Northbound near Leamington Spa on Friday February 18 at 5.14pm. The driver of a white Renault was seen undertaking multiple cars and cutting up a HGV.

Dmitry Muratov, the editor of Moscow-based newspaper Novaya Gazeta, said the move meant 'if Russia isn't treated as he wants, then everything will be destroyed'.

Roman Abramovich, who last night ceded 'stewardship' of the top-flight team to the club's charitable foundation, has a chequed history as an oligarch and alleged crony of Vladimir Putin.

BP saw a huge chunk wiped off its value following the announcement about abandoning the 19.75 per cent holding in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine.

Sixty British volunteers gathered by Mamuka Mamulashvili, 43, commander of the Georgian National Legion (pictured) are going to Ukraine to fight Vladimir Putin's Russian forces.

A tractor-trailer carrying US mail plummeted off a bridge and into the Charles River near Boston Saturday, but the driver miraculously survived after he sought refuge atop the truck.

Speaking on nation-wide TV, TV anchor Dmitry Kiselyov told viewers: 'Our submarines can shoot more than 500 nuclear warheads.'

Swimming Australia has condemned the actions of the Russian government and president Vladimir Putin, with the country's troops continuing their military assaults in Ukraine after last week's invasion.

A Gold Coast man and his dog have died after their car was swept away in torrential rain on Currumbin Creek Road at about 3am on Monday.

Western Australia will introduce Australia's toughest Covid-19 restrictions from 12.01am on Thursday despite having just 11 people in hospital with the virus and none in ICU.

A supermarket bag containing $100,000 in $100 notes, a Labor MP and a property developer making an 'unlawful' donation - ICAC finally solves the Aldi bag mystery.

The unnamed 55-year-old mechanic said he scuppered the vessel in Mallorca because he claims his boss sells weapons to Putin that are being used to kill and maim his countrymen.

Russia's communications regulator asked Google to restore access to its state-sponsored media channels on YouTube in Ukraine, accusing it of 'censorship.'

A Labor MP was forced to take meme down that he posted of Transport Minister David Elliott, who admitted he was asleep when the fateful decision was made to close the rail network last Monday.

A fringe group of Russian patriots in Australia are fervently backing Vladimir Putin's bloody invasion of Ukraine.

An ominous graphic has revealed the regions in southeast Queensland and northern NSW hardest hit by the unravelling flood crisis as residents are told to prepare for the wet and wild conditions to worsen.

A man couldn't quite put the breaks on his sinking car on Monday, but he sure gave it his best shot. He was filmed wading around his car as it floated around in Brisbane's flood waters.

Australia just a decade ago was exporting uranium to Russia despite its history of aggression towards its neighbours. Vladimir Putin also came to Sydney in 2007 and did a yellowcake deal.

A bystander filmed carparking chaos at a local surf event in Manly when a pedestrian tried to save a spot by standing in it - with the video sparking a heated debate on carpark etiquette.

The image of the pin-up president dressed in combat gear has gone viral since the war erupted on Friday, but the inspiring pic was actually taken long before Russian tanks targeted Kyiv.

US first lady Jill Biden expressed concern in a series of tweets Sunday for the mental health of those who are feeling distressed about the conflict in Ukraine.

Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer cast aside their differences to back the Daily Mail's call for urgent donations. Mail readers yesterday gave £268,000 on the first day of the Ukraine Appeal.

Total chaos reigned at the teeming Lviv railway station on Sunday, less than 50 miles from Poland, as thousands of Ukrainian refugees fleeing Russian forces flooded into the city.

Lady Gaga reiterated the importance of gratitude and said: 'There's so much going on in the world and my heart goes out to Ukraine'. Michael Douglas said we should 'appreciate what true democracy is'.

Jessica Van Nooten and Kevin Middleton, from Melbourne, had 15 failed rounds of IVF over a seven-year period before they decided to get help from a surrogacy agency in the Ukraine.

Human remains found in the Margaret River region in Western Australia are suspected to be of a missing father-of-three who vanished three months prior when a bushfire ravaged the area.

Sisters Viktoria and Diana Petrova are the lucky ones that escaped the bloodshed and made it into Poland - but it was an arduous journey to safety...

She claims the attention the conflict has received, compared to other conflicts, demonstrates 'insidious racism' in the media. She also said shock for Ukraine shows racial bias.

An irate Today Show reporter lashed out at a 4WD passing through flooded waters on the Gold Coast. The driver splashed her on its way out as the city bears the brunt of a massive deluge of rain.

Representative Darrell Issa of California, 68, and Mark Green of Tennessee, 57, made the remarks on the sidelines of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

Russian forces are said to have taken a small Ukrainian town in the south of the country. Berdyansk, a port city on the northern coast of the Sea of Azov is home to 100,000 people.

Pictures show as William Blount, 57, was escorted out of Transit District 20 after he was arrested on Sunday for the hammer attack of Nina Rothschild at the Queens Plaza subway station Thursday.

One person has died and four people remain in hospital in South Australia, their cases possibly linked to mosquito-borne diseases, prompting a warning from health officials.

Tasmanian residents in the state's east coast, and parts of the southeast and northeast have been warned for severe storms and potential flash flooding on Monday afternoon.

Stephen Bruce Porter, 57, dubbed the 'stinky rapist' due to his foul-smelling body odour will remain behind bars for life over the rape of a 19-year-old girl back in 2007.

Hundreds of mourners gathered at Sydney Cricket Ground on Monday for the state funeral of rugby league immortal Johnny Raper. His wife of 60 years Caryl wiped away tears during the service.

The flooding in southern Queensland has caused widespread destruction to both residences and towns, with one Brisbane local revealing the real impact the deluge has had on her home

A pontoon that was carrying a crane has broken free of its mooring at the Howard Smith Wharves in Brisbane as massive flooding continues to devastate the city. 

The former attorney-general hoped to be Prime Minister until his political career came crashing down after he denied a historical rape allegation last year.

New Zealand has reopened its borders after almost two years of harsh lockdown. Kiwis returning to New Zealand from Australia will not be required to quarantine as of March 3.

Families have been rescued from the roof of their home after they were forced to climb to higher ground as raging floodwaters battered northeastern NSW on Monday.

The celebrity couple previously threw an annual Australia Day party at their palatial North Shore mansion until it was derailed by the pandemic, but now it has returned and rebranded.

The extension, announced Sunday, is part of the United States' effort to instill confidence in their eastern European allies during the crisis.

The Office of the Attending Physician announced the policy change Sunday, noting 'individuals may choose to mask at any time, but it is not a requirement'. The policy follows new CDC rulings.

A mother who suffers from muscular dystrophy was trapped on top of a bunk bed in her Lismore home on Monday as rising flood water threatened to drown her. Lismore was evacuated early Monday.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine could have huge health consequences due to low Covid vaccination rates and high case numbers, the ABC health correspondent warned.

Australia's Foreign Affairs Department issued a dire warning that Scott Morrison's support for Ukraine and sanctions on Russia and its interests could spur retaliation.

Brisbane residents in low lying areas are on high alert as the Brisbane River peaked at 4m as the desperate search for a young father feared missing in floodwaters in Goodna continues.

A video of Kristy Mirzikinian went viral when the glamorous blonde told reporters the personal impact on her of a crater opening up opposite her Point Piper home in Sydney's eastern suburbs.

A former Australian SAS sergeant recalled a controversial mission in 2012 where an Afghan prisoner was allegedly handcuffed and kicked off a 'steep slope' by Ben Roberts-Smith.

Residents in Lismore, northern NSW, have been urged to evacuate as the mayor, Steve Krieg, shared his own plea for locals with a boat to help rescue a pregnant woman from the roof of her home.

Scott Morrison on Sunday activated the Disaster Recovery Payment of $1,000 per  adult and $400 per child.

The Defence Minister, who represents Dickson in north-west Brisbane, set up the page on Sunday as the city was lashed with heavy rain, prompting flood alerts for 140 suburbs.

The Prime Minister took the rare step of banning a fellow leader at midnight as Ukrainian troops fended off Russian forces in brutal firefights in Kyiv and other cities.

The Microsoft co-founder hailed Australia's response to the Covid-19 pandemic as 'gold standard' and said the rest of the world wouldn't be calling the next outbreak as a pandemic if they followed suit.

Daniel Andrews has been holding discussions with peak industry groups about the possibility of introducing a third vaccine mandate to some industries.

TOM LEONARD: Amid the zeal to recycle, there's no small irony in the fact the main sources of renewable energy cannot themselves be renewed when they reach the end of their life.

Emergency crews battling Queensland 's devastating flood crisis rushed to the Brisbane River's Holman St ferry terminal at about 9am on Sunday when the floating home sunk.

Lviv is the capital of western Ukraine. Its railway station is a shabby, Art Nouveau relic of steam's golden age. Today the ornate entrance hall was a scene of utter chaos.

Desperate Russian troops are starting to adopt brutal 'siege tactics' in Ukraine that will greatly increase the likelihood of civilians being killed in Putin's war of aggression, US defence officials have claimed.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Ukrainian fighters, bolstered by weapons from Britain and others, have proved impressively resolute.

A video has recently surfaced online showing Russian loyalists outside the Sydney consulate on Saturday hanging a mysterious sign with the letter 'Z'.

Syndey's inner-weast residents were confused when a large fish was spotted outside Summer Hill train station. People wrote the shark could have made its way to the gutter through last weeks floods

Lions midfielder Mitch Robinson dressed down in budgie smugglers and swimming goggles for a quick dip in his inundated backyard in Brisbane on Sunday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky took to Instagram yesterday to hail the Daily Mail for its coverage of Ukraine and its Saturday front page, which splashed 'Kyiv, the city of courage'.

Elon Musk is pushing to build a massive 6.2-mile underground tunnel to ferry Tesla vehicles and their passengers in the traffic-clogged area of North Miami Beach.

Eleven-month old Jayleigh Murray was found unresponsive at her home in Aldrin Avenue, Dubbo, about 6.20pm on June 6, 2019.

Alyssa Mahoney (right), 18, shared a video a video of the roof of her home caving in. The Toowoomba home had been subject to heavy rainfall as part of southeast Queensland's current wild weather.

An emergency text alert from Brisbane City Council was sent just after 8pm on Sunday night as the Bureau of Meteorology warned severe flooding is likely to come with the high tide on Monday morning.

Mark Perez, 38, who was awarded a multi-million verdict after an accident at Jones Beach, is being sued by his ex-attorney, Benedict Morelli, who claims he is entitled to $5.5 million in legal fees.

Terence Darrell Kelly, 36, will appear in Carnarvon Magistrates Court by video link on Monday, accused of assaulting a public officer while in custody in a police cell a day after he was arrested.

Kevin Rudd's political career effectively ended in 2013 when he lost the general election to Tony Abbott just weeks after he staged a coup against the then-PM Julia Gillard.

Police plan to give lessons to volunteers on how to make and throw Molotov cocktails. Such preparations highlight the terrifying speed with which war has changed this country.

The Ukrainian state security service has officially reported that a rocket attack on Zhytomyr Airport - located some 93 miles west of Kiev - was launched from the territory of Belarus.

'Is this the Iron Curtain?' said Vladimir Soloviev, on his late-night program after learning sanctions by Italian officials would hinder his access to a pair of properties he owns off Lake Como.

Britain was last night pushing for even tougher sanctions against Moscow, amid predictions that Russian banks could start to run out of money after most were excluded from the Swift payment system.

Donald Trump Jr. said Russian President Vladimir Putin didn't invade Ukraine under his dad's watch because former President Donald Trump had 'balls.'

'The election was not "stolen." Trump lost it,' the former attorney general states plainly in his forthcoming book 'One Damn Thing After Another' about his time in the Trump White House.

Psaki spoke with ABC after Putin indicated that he was preparing his military for the possibility of nuclear war in light of 'aggressive statements' and 'unfriendly economic actions' from the West.

Volunteers, among them a former Miss Ukraine, have taken up arms to fight off Vladimir Putin's army, with 'long queues' of citizens waiting to be issued weapons at recruitment centres in Kyiv.

The journalist, who has not been named, started crying as she read out Volodymyr Zelenskyy's words for German news channel Welt.