Huge fire engulfs entire 33-storey apartment block in South Korea, as firefighters race to evacuate hundreds of people inside A blaze has engulfed 33-storeys of a residential building in Ulsan, South Korea Fire is said to have started on floor 12 before spreading through the building Firefighters have been working to clear the 136-household block … Read more
Britain’s beleaguered Test and Trace system is performing worse than ever, official data today revealed. Nearly 32,000 contacts of coronavirus-infected patients in England were not tracked down in the last week of September. This is the equivalent of 32 per cent of all 100,000 contacts the service tried to reach. And a further 17,000 contacts … Read more
Apple, Google and the UK Department for Health have still not fixed a glitch in the NHS Covid-19 app, which has resulted in thousands of users receiving phantom ‘exposure notifications’. The alerts have been popping up on both iOS and Android devices since last week, with the title: ‘Possible COVID-19 exposure’, ‘COVID-19 EXPOSURE LOGGING’ or ‘COVID-19 … Read more
Billie Faiers shows off her svelte figure in workout gear as she leaves Dancing On Ice training with pro skater Mark Hanretty By Joanna Crawley For Mailonline Published: 16:39 BST, 8 October 2020 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 8 October 2020 She’s thrown herself into training since announcing she’ll be taking part in Dancing On Ice … Read more
Deadly wildfires in California have burned more than four million acres and while many scientists say climate change is to blame, others are also pointing to beetles. These insects have eaten their way through millions of acres of trees across the western North America, creating heaps of dry timber just waiting to be ignited. The Creek Fire … Read more
Ed Sheeran and Cherry Seaborn announced the arrival of their daughter on Instagram at the beginning of September. And, on Thursday morning, the singer, 29, was seen out with baby daughter Lyra Antarctica Seaborn Sheeran for the first time since becoming a father. Ed was spotted out and about in London, carrying the newborn in a baby … Read more
The US could have up to 300,000 doses of Regeneron’s antibody treatment for coronavirus this fall, White House officials and the company said Thursday. ‘We’ve applied the same methods to supporting therapeutics [as the government has to vaccine development] too,’ Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Alex Azar said during a Thursday Goldman … Read more
SAGE experts met today to demand Boris Johnson gets even tougher by imposing a nationwide ‘circuit breaker’ lockdown – despite the PM already facing a backlash from the North over plans to shut pubs and restaurants in hotspots. Scientists are warning that coronavirus has a ‘gun to the head’ of the country as daily cases … Read more
It comes as the PM signed off a new ‘traffic light’ system of curbs for England after days of bitter wrangling between ministers and scientists, with a swathe of the north facing even tougher rules.
‘A rose by any other name would smell as sweet,’ declaims the titular tragic hero in William Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’. But what if that rose were really a fish? For up to 2.2 per cent of people, the stench of fish is indistinguishable from sweet roses, caramel or nothing at all — with a … Read more