The British Empire was branded 'far worse than the Nazis' during a controversial debate about Sir Winston Churchill's legacy last night.

Nearly 3,000 people in the UK and US answered four questions on how they rate their ability to understand what others are really thinking. Women consistently returned better scores than men.

The Treasury could abandon annual increases to the £12,500 and £50,000 income tax thresholds, which would see tens of millions of Britons paying more.

Cops in Piauí, Brazil, found a mother and her daughter on road near a school Monday night after they escaped a farm they were enslaved in for six years.

The proposal by the payments watchdog could include forcing all banks to commit to another new code of conduct or changing the rules around 'faster payments' and online bank transfers.

Michael Misick resigned as premier of the islands, which is a British Overseas Territory, in 2009, after a British government commission found a 'high probability of systemic corruption'.

The Chief of the Defence Staff said economic crises and 'nationalist barriers' will create 'security challenges' across the world.

It is understood that the Prime Minister's plan to end lockdown is based on the expectation that people will continue to adhere to social distancing rules for months to come.

First doses of the Pfizer and Oxford vaccines have now been administered to 13,509,108 people. Pictured: Co-creator Peter Lord tweeted a photo of his character from TV show Take Hart.

On the night Libby Squire disappeared, Pawel Relowicz, 26, who was yesterday convicted of the 21-year-old's rape and murder, had been searching for women to prey on.

Sahayb Abu, 27, allegedly bought an 18ins gladiator-style sword, a combat vest, two balaclavas, fingerless gloves and a military hat as part of his plot, jurors heard.

Judith Buchanan, the head of St Peter's College at the prestigious university, is reported to have said she was 'truly sorry' for allowing Mr Loach (pictured) to speak at the virtual event on Monday.

In an exclusive article for the Daily Mail, chief economist Andy Haldane insists the public are 'desperate to get their lives back'.

A rise in landfill tax by 700 per cent between 1998 and 2014 has contributed to a surge in fly-tipping and helped cost the Treasury £275million a year in lost income, according to the National Audit Office.

Superintendent Simon Rotherham of Scotland Yard suggested the Black Lives Matter demos over George Floyd's death in the US dented officers' 'fragile' confidence.

Two beavers will be released at a 29-acre site surrounded by housing estates in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, as part of a project to reintroduce the animals across the UK.

The flames can be seen miles away in Plymouth as gorseland was blazing. Dozens of firefighters are trying to get to the exact location which appears to be centred on Cudlipptown near Peter Tavy, Devon.

A report by the Financial Conduct Authority revealed the extent of UK's financial position during the pandemic with a quarter of the population fearing they will struggle to make ends meet.

President Donald Trump skipped Thursday's impeachment action and headed for his south Florida golf course, exclusive pictures by DailyMail.com reveal.

The London Fire Brigade is 'not in a position' to do better in the event of a second Grenfell-like fire, a report by Her Majesty's Inspector of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services said yesterday.

Police rushed to reports of three men brawling on Ackmar Road at 6.42pm on Thursday. The 19-year-old was treated for stab wounds at the scene but could not be saved.

Charles Byrne, 24, was charged with murder and attempted murder, West Mercia police said on Thursday night.

EXCLUSIVE: The three-star Ibis Styles London Heathrow East hotel opened in December 2019 and features brightly-coloured 1920s 'Art Deco-inspired' rooms.

West Midlands PCSO Kieron Poole shrieked in terror as Muhammad Nadeem, then 18, slammed his foot down while the officer's arms were trapped inside the driver's side window.

Footage shows one border force official telling an impatient passenger at Heathrow it was taking up to 30 minutes to wave through a single person.

Mr Blair, 37, founder and chief executive of Multiverse, which offers people non-university career paths, joined the Chancellor to back his Plan for Jobs programme to stem unemployment .

The City of London Corporation last month declared it would remove sculptures depicting William Beckford and Sir John Cass from its Guildhall headquarters over their links to slavery.

Two out of three lion cubs born last month at the Port Lympne Hotel and Reserve safari park in Hythe, Kent, which is owned by Ms Symonds' new employer the Aspinall Foundation, have died.

They've travelled from London to Croatia to LA, then Switzerland, France, Monaco and The Maldives - then back to Monaco since lockdown began in March. 

Olga Freeman, 40, stuffed a sponge into 10-year-old Dylan's mouth before laying him down to die next to his toys in the master bedroom of her £544,000 flat in Acton, West London, in August.

Sir Paul Nurse, 72, said hundreds of volunteers are left standing around at the Francis Crick Institute's vaccination centre in London. He said said vaccines have been left unused in the fridge.

Five cast-members - among them Sarah Michelle Gellar and Charisma Carpenter - have publicly accused show creator Joss Whedon of 'inappropriate behaviour.'

EXCLUSIVE: A recording of a Zoom meeting on Monday shows Bill Michael telling employees at the top City firm they are in 'a very lucky sector' and should not 'sit there and moan'.

Cristina Ortiz-Lozano was knifed 23 times by Abdelaziz El Yechioui Ourzat in a 'frenzied' attack after he spotted her enjoying a night out in Southampton with a new partner.

Israel has started implementing a three-stage plan to exit Covid restrictions - similar to the blueprint Boris Johnson is set to lay out on February 22.

Researchers found heavy breathers are likely superspreaders of coronavirus, as they disproportionately contribute to the production of infectious aerosols.

Tracy Tweedy, 50, and her husband Dean, 52, bought Borth Wild Animal Kingdom in Borth, West Wales, for £625,000 five years ago but the attraction faced a series of blunders and escapes.

Shannon Matthews was nine when she was kidnapped in a plan devised by her mother and a man named Michael Donovan in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.

The BBC has axed editorial director Mr Ahmed from its news board in a 'modernisation' plan - leaving it with no BAME members despite a pledge to increase diversity last year.

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick pledged a further £3.5billion to help end the safety crisis following the 72 deaths in the Grenfell disaster. But victims still face bills of tens of thousands of pounds.

Research by Savanta ComRes found backing for independence has slumped four points over the past month - although it still stands at 53 per cent.

The Met Commissioner is in the firing line after Lord Brittan's widow said Scotland Yard lacked a 'strong moral compass' and had a culture of 'cover up and flick away'.

It took Riyad Mahrez five weeks to realise the money had been taken and block the card which truck driver Sharif Mohamed, 32, had defrauded in 2017.

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Concerns over the former Labour deputy leader's position grew yesterday after Lord Brittan's widow spoke out about the impact of his involvement in false claims made against her late husband.

Nick Kyrgios has returned to the court for his third-round Australian Open clash with Dominic Thiem after a nail-biting victory. 

The professor of black studies at Birmingham City University has branded 'whiteness' a 'psychosis', called for the overthrow of 'genocidal' capitalism and repeatedly compared Sir Churchill to Adolf Hitler.

Ex Blue Peter presenter Anthea Turner is in an anti-mask disability row after 'coronavirus selfishness' post of a fat woman in a wheelchair eating McDonalds berating a thinner lady in no PPE.

Nick Kyrgios' glamorous girlfriend Chiara Passari has been spotted cheering him on at the Australian Open after sharing a cryptic Instagram post about cheating. 

Emma Gunning, pictured, was five times the drink drive limit when she crashed into a parked car in Wigan while out looking for her missing dog on December 9, 2020.

The government portal is still not live with less than 72 hours left to go until the first people are due to check in.

President Donald Trump was sicker than he admitted when he had COVID-19 in October, with officials believing he may need to be put on a ventilator.

The Joint Committee on Vaccinations and Immunisations - which designed the UK's priority list - is set to make the recommendation within two weeks, according to reports.

Gales of up to 50mph are predicted to combine with blizzards of snow today to provide a freezing start to the weekend across the UK

Health officials have emphasised that even with effective vaccines, many of the current safety protocols will have to remain in force until the U.S. has clear herd immunity.

The pictures, taken earlier this week as adverse weather from Storm Darcy hit the city of Glasgow, were shared widely on Facebook, with volunteers insisting 'this has to end'.

Shocking video shows the Royal Mail worker ignoring 72-year-old pensioner Patricia Stewart's pleas for help after slipping outside her home in Falkirk, Scotland as Storm Darcy lashes Britain.

Whitney Wolfe Herd founded the female-empowering dating app in 2014 after leaving Tinder over claims of sexual discrimination and harassment.

Bill Michael will leave the top City firm at the end of the month following the uproar sparked by his comments on a Zoom call on Monday.

'She played a woman who kicked a** & who girls looked up to. She was instrumental in making Star Wars fun again. Of course Disney canceled her,' Cruz tweeted of Carno on Thursday.

'I think it's an absurd report that they would be doing that, I think it would be unconstitutional, it would be unwise and it would be unjust,' said Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Thursday.

Daniel Andrews has suggested Australian citizens stranded overseas should not be allowed to travel home unless they're granted an exception on compassionate grounds.

An aerial drone captured the remarkable incident at Bondi Beach, in Sydney's east, with the surfer and shark side-by-side in the water.

Eighteen years before Chase Coleman III became the world's top-earning hedge fund manager for 2020, his then-future wife Stephanie Ercklentz appeared in HBO's 'Born Rich'.

During a Thursday performance titled 'African Song and Dance', Chinese dancers appeared on stage wearing outfits that approximated African clothing and had darkened their skin with make-up.

Notorious gang rapist, Mohammed Skaf, has been seen by the public for the first time in 20 years in a court sketch drawn as he seeks parole for the fourth time in three years.

A grand jury indicted Klete Keller, 38, on four new charges on Wednesday. He was arrested last month after video showed him storming the Capitol while wearing a distinctive 'Team USA' jacket.

Neighbours say Libby Squire's killer Pawel Relowicz treated his wife Jagoda 'like a dog,' before she left him in 2019 after he was jailed for a for a spate of sexually motivated burglaries.

Michelle Troconis is facing charges of conspiracy to commit murder and evidence tampering in connection with Jennifer's disappearance in New Canaan, Connecticut, in May 2019.

The outbreak has been blamed on infections leaking out from a Melbourne airport quarantine hotel (pictured) - days before Britain brings in a similar system at the border.

Aaron Torgalski and Robert McCabe of Buffalo police sparked worldwide anger on June 4 when they shoved Martin Gugino, 75, to the sidewalk and left him bleeding from the ear.

Putin (pictured) said he might get the Russian-made vaccine in late summer or early autumn 2021, many months after it was approved by Moscow's health ministry.

Melburnians have descended on city pubs to farewell freedom after Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews condemned them to their third hard lockdown in a year. 

Details from the November 14 police report show that the 71-year-old singer was swaying and glassy-eyed, smelt of alcohol and took 45 steps instead of the requested 18.

The tragedy occurred along Interstate 35 near Fort Worth shortly after 6am, with video showing a FedEx truck plowing into a barrier after losing control on an icy downhill stretch of road.

The NHS England statistics, which go up to February 7, show Somerset had given at least one dose to 93.4 per cent of all of its over-70s.

An investigative team at the Whydah Pirate Museum in West Yarmouth on Cape Cod have discovered the remains of at least six skeletons. They were unearthed from the wreck site of the Whydah,

The Japanese tennis star was competing against Tunisia's Ons Jabeur in the third-round when the orange and black butterfly landed on her leg in Melbourne on Friday.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. Dr Daniel Aranov from Malvern, Victoria, shared footage to TikTok of one of his client undergoing an eyelid lift, also known as blepharoplasty.

Fabricio Arena, 34, was arrested by Brazilian authorities Monday and confessed to murdering his wife, Cristiane Arena, 34, and then her nine-year-old daughter Karoline Guimarães.

GDP grew by 1 per cent in the fourth quarter, better than some experts had expected, and easing fears of another full-blown recession after the historic plunge last spring.

Tiara Lott, 22, has been missing from her home in Buffalo, New York since January 29th. She is said to have disappeared after a video chat with a friend in which she appeared 'bruised'.

Andrew Cuomo's top aide, Melissa DeRosa, admitted in a conference call with state Democrats, obtained by New York Post, their administration 'froze' when the Trump government asked for data.

An Arizona tourist claims he was injured while under hypnosis at a comedy hypnosis show in 2019. Kevin Casselbury, of Scottsdale, Arizona, has filed a lawsuit against Savard (pictured, right).

Dershowitz, who defended Trump in his first impeachment trial but is on the sidelines for the second, was reacting after House Democrats acting as prosecutors rested their case on Thursday.

Skye Elliott, 30, from Toukley, in NSW's Central Coast, had been giving ten-month-old Zander Howe the over-the-counter gel for pain relief for about six months when he suddenly fell sick.

Leicestershire Police discovered the illicit gathering in Leicester yesterday, and dished out fines of £200 to seven men found inside the makeshift pub.

Under the Commonwealth Bank's 'downside' forecast, house values will plummet by 15 per cent and unemployment will jump to 10.4 per cent.

A top real estate agent skipped around his Sydney home singing 'I'm going to kill her' before attempting to murder his love interest's friend with a samurai sword, a court has heard.

Stage Four restrictions endured by Victorians during winter have been re-imposed with residents confined to homes except for two hours of exercise, essential shopping, care-giving and work.

Britney Spears' conservatorship battle continued Thursday with a judge denying her father Jamie' objections to establishing Bessemer Trust as a co-conservator over her estate.

Queensland has confirmed the state will close its border to Greater Melbourne for two weeks from 1am Saturday. 

Aaron Epstein, of North Hollywood, paid for the ads to be featured in two separate editions of The Wall Street Journal on February 3.

'Of COURSE I can't say if you'll have a summer holiday - I have my limits'

The Aussie firebrand has hit the ground running at the Australian Open in his first Grand Slam appearance in 12 months - thrilling the Melbourne crowd on Wednesday with a whirlwind five-set upset.

The Holiday Inn cluster swelled to 13 on Friday, leaving five million Melburnians on edge as they brace for a potential city-wide lockdown over the weekend.

The Communist regime accused the BBC of 'seriously violating' broadcasting regulations, harming Chinese interests and undermining national unity.

Katherine Creag, 47, died on Wednesday night. The cause of her death is unknown but NBC News said it was unexpected. Creag was a mother-of-three and had been married for 14 years.

A popular New England brewery has created a new beer, 'S'mitten Mittens'. The can features Bernie Sanders infamous pose from the Biden inauguration.

Victoria, about to enter a 'circuit breaker' five-day lockdown, will be locked out of Western Australia for 72 hours from 6pm on Friday.

Fines handed out to NSW drivers have soared by 525% per cent since the removal of the 'Speed Camera Ahead' signs that were required to be placed 250m before the camera.

A red heeler named Flea has displayed her highly unusual - but effective - method when dragging a tennis ball across a beach on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.

In a 3AW radio interview on Friday morning, the prime minister said a 'proportionate' response similar to the three-day lockdown in Brisbane last month is appropriate.

A family spotted the shark swimming in the shallows of the Port Hacking River on Thursday afternoon.

A missing man is suspected of being eaten by a crocodile after his upturned boat was found in a creek.

Richard Lee Oliver was headed to his mother's house near Milwaukee on Saturday when his truck hit snow on I-94 and plummeted 70 feet off of an exit ramp, leaving him with a broken back.

Fans will be allowed in the stands on Friday evening for Nick Kyrgios' crunch third-round clash with Dominic Thiem, before rules come into place banning spectators until at least Thursday.

Last week, officials from the Region of Durham released a chart which challenged council employees to complete six different activities.

The woman found the Russian tent web spider hiding inside a cocoon structure suspended from the leaves of a succulent plant on Thursday.

The secret to how McDonalds makes its delicious onions was revealed in a viral TikTok - you'd be surprised - and now a Sydneysider has confirmed this is how we do it here too.

The CEO of Avalon Airport in Melbourne has called for a national approach to coordinate border closures so people can once again feel confident to make travel plans.

Sheep shearers can make $2,500 a week only working four days, and don't require any qualifications. Farmers still face a severe shortage of workers for the demanding job.

Victorian health officials early on Friday morning said customers and staff at Terminal 4's Brunetti cafe may have been at risk at any time between 4.45am and 1.15pm on February 9.

The Australia and New Zealand Ministerial Forum on Food Regulation said orange juice should be reclassified by sugar content, sparking a debate with farmers.

Data from Apple Maps illustrates how Australians across the nation's biggest cities have chaged their transport habits during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Alex de Minaur wrote the initials 'KT' on the camera lens following his Australian Open victory on Thursday night, leading many to speculate he was referring to British player Katie Boulter.

In May 2019, Sorokin - who went by Anna Delvey when she was committing fraud - was sentenced to between four and 12 years in prison.

Premier Daniel Andrews held crisis talks with health chiefs on Thursday evening after five new infections were linked to the Holiday Inn Melbourne Airport cluster - bringing the total to 13.

Nadal was up 5-4 in the second set against American Michael Mmoh on Thursday night when he was heckled by the female fan who hurled insults at him and then flipped him the bird.

Emergency services were called to Budgeree Road in Toongabbie, in Sydney's west, about 10.30pm on November 15 last year, where they found the man.

Thomas Caldwell, 66, is charged with conspiracy to obstruct Congress alongside two other alleged members of the group, and court papers filed on Thursday provide chilling new evidence.

Suspicions conspiracy theorist Pete Evans might enter politics were confirmed with a 1am Friday announcement by failed former One Nation MP Rod Culleton's The Great Australia Party.

Next Thursday's major prize will jackpot to a whopping $50million - the largest winnings offered in seven months.

China has already crippled many Australian industries with trading tariffs, including beef, barley and wine, with fears the highly-profitable education sector could be next.

Senator Jim Carlin did not offer an explanation for his bill, but it comes after accusations that Iowa's public universities repressed the free speech of conservative students.

The suspensions reportedly stem from a video the group shared on Wednesday which featured Facebook's Vice President of Integrity, Guy Rosen, a screenshot shared by Project Veritas showed.

A man was caught on surveillance camera walking across at Seattle parking lot. He approaches a blue car that is parked up and fires at two women with his gun. One of them was killed.

Footage captured the altercation unfold at Westfield Garden City in Mount Gravatt, Brisbane, on Thursday.

Mail Force's star-studded fundraising video has reached 115 million people through social media, with A-listers including David Beckham and Naomi Campbell urging viewers to back the drive.

The Justice Department's fraud section and the San Francisco U.S. attorney's office have sought information about the Gamestop trading frenzy from brokers and social-media companies.

The two-foot snake was found hiding under a wooden pool deck in terrifying footage posted on Facebook.

Today co-host Karl Stefanovic has grilled Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton about Australia's slow vaccine rollout.

Research led by the University of Bristol said the first waves of vaccination are probably already leading to a 10% reduction in Covid deaths but lockdown is making data hard to interpret.

Richard Christian 'Chris' Dillard killed himself outside Beth Van Duyne's home in a gated community in Irving, just outside Dallas, on Wednesday afternoon.

A fisherman has been missing since Thursday afternoon in central Queensland, with his upturned boat found early Friday morning.

He unveiled a White Paper on the greater integration of NHS and social care in England. But proposals on the funding of care - promised by the Prime Minister - were not included.

Teachers at the Wesley School in North Hollywood were tapped by the Northridge Hospital Medical Center to get immunized from the virus through a 'special program.'

Disney on Wednesday announced it had fired conservative actress Gina Carano. Cancel Disney+ began to trend on Twitter shortly after Carano's firing and people pointed to Pascal's tweet.

The lawmaker inadvertently exposed his own flouting of COVID-19 rules this week when he posted footage of the nuptials at Cass House in San Luis Obispo County, on December 5.

Highways England could be taken to court for corporate manslaughter following the death of Nargis Begum who was killed when her car broke down on a motorway with no hard shoulder.

Sales were up 26.7 per cent or $3.3billion on 2019 levels, with locals locked out of pubs and bars thanks to restrictions which plagued most of 2020.

One amorous couple face being fined £200 each after they were caught 'fornicating under the stars' on Dartmoor on the coldest night of the year.

Whether it's dunking a digestive or snacking on shortbread, we all have our favourites. But it seems there's one thing the nation can agree on - that biscuits are its number one sugary snack.

A deadly dugite snake has been found eating a huge lizard on a popular beach after onlookers mistook it for 'a bit of rubbish.'

Top Justice Department officials turned down New York prosecutors' requests to get a warrant for Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani's communications in the summer and after the elections.

As a boy, Simon George loved watching the trains rumble past at the busy railway junction in a hamlet near his home.

Desire Reid, 11 (far right), purportedly died trying to save her eight-month-old brother, Keyon Robinson (pictured in mom's arms), from a fire that engulfed their Jersey City home overnight.

Police in New Haven, Connecticut, have named MIT graduate Qinxuan Pan, 29 (left), a person of interest in the shooting death of Yale graduate student Kevin Jiang, 26 (right) last week.

Sir Richard Henriques says confidence in the criminal justice system has been 'gravely damaged' by the failure to hold officers to account following the disastrous VIP child abuse inquiry.

Face coverings will be optional in hairdressers, beauty salons, places of worship and hospitality venues across Greater Sydney, Wollongong, Central Coast and Blue Mountains from Friday.