The Prime Minister all but confirmed yesterday that he will give the green light for reopening mid-month as he underlined the success of the vaccine programme.

The Porsche smashed into a Belisha beacon outside a restaurant in Fulham, south London, after narrowly missing the passersby and a cyclist yesterday.

Pinned down by enemy fire in the searing heat of the Iraq desert, 21-year-old Corporal Shaun Jardine decided there was only one way out of his predicament.

Virgin Galactic´s Richard Branson is planning to beat Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos being the first to blast off into space on their July 11 flight.

Votes cast yesterday are being checked before the final results as revealed as Labour and the Conservatives battle for the northern Red Wall seat in the West Yorkshire constituency.

Nearly one million Britons were found in May to be experiencing long Covid - defined as symptoms which last for more than four weeks after infection.

More than one million workers came off furlough in May as the economy reopened - but around 2.4million were still reliant on the scheme. The biggest reduction came in businesses serving drinks.

Medics who treated the patient, believed to be from York, revealed the tale in a case report in the British Medical Journal. They did not say what position he was in when he suffered the injury.

Peter McGuinness, 54, and wife Deborah, a 49-year-old former personal assistant to three heads of the military, were found dead in a Land Rover at a remote beauty spot in Dorset.

Princes William and Harry managed to put their bitter personal animosity to one side for just over an hour to honour their mother, Diana, Princess of Wales in the Sunken Garden at Kensington Palace.

Theories of potential drug involvement were sparked after an investigation into Charalambos Anagnostopoulos's finances revealed he lived a lavish lifestyle, despite earning a pilot's salary.

A government carbon reduction scheme could increase the average cost of running a petrol car by more than £100 a year while the average gas bill could rise by as much as £170 - almost a third.

Although the use of coins and notes continues to fall, new plans proposed by the Treasury say people should never have to travel beyond a 'reasonable distance' to take out or deposit cash for free.

The Prime Minister hinted that a 'summer holiday firebreak' would be needed to give schools time to prepare for a new set of arrangements.

Yvonne Doyle, Public Health England's medical director, said Three Lions supporters should watch the much-anticipated Euro 2020 quarter final against Ukraine outdoors rather than indoors.

A post from the British charity, which has since been deleted, told followers it had been busy 'flushing someone's head down the toilet' and has to go 'pinch someone's lunch money'.

It is estimated the move, which is now out to public consultation from the Department of Health, could bring in an extra £300million for the NHS by 2026/27.

Restaurateur Henry Dimbleby is set to make the salt tax a central recommendation of his National Food Strategy, a government review aimed at getting Britons to eat healthier.

Emma Woodhall, 35, and Corinne Murray, 42, ditched their usual hiking attire to tackle the famous Wainwright Blencathra in Keswick, Cumbria, on Sunday.

Some 34 years after the first UK store opened its doors, the US retailer has announced it is closing all 81 of its stores across Britain and Ireland. Here, FEMAIL charts what went wrong.

The victim was rushed to a central London hospital after sustaining knife injuries at the junction of Regent Street at 8pm. He remains in a critical condition.

Beatrice, 32, who is expecting her first child with husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, clutched the pink toy as she arrived for dinner with girlfriends at 5 Hertford Street, in London's Mayfair.

Italy's embassy in London said no one who has been in the UK in the past fortnight will be allowed into the Stadio Olympico in Rome for England's quarter-final game - even if they have a ticket.

Darren McGrady, 58, who was personal chef for Princess Diana,shared a tribute to the late royal in a video on his YouTube page to mark her 60th birthday.

EXCLUSIVE The viral video of Jonathan Chew and his friend Lewis Hughes, both 24, grabbing the Government's top medical adviser as he walked through St James' Park was highly criticised.

Adil Khan, 51, and Qari Abdul Rauf, 52, have been told they are to be sent back to Pakistan for the public good after both were part of the Rochdale grooming gang.

Hussein Bisad, 46, became famous in 2002 when he claimed to be the world's tallest man. Now he is living in a care home in Brent, north London.

Sophie Wessex, 56, attended the second day dressed in a long mint green skirt and white trainers. The Queen has attended every year the event has taken place since 1943.

Adventure-enthusiast Sheldon Marshal, 64, fell from a horse on his way to Everest Base camp - around halfway up the world's tallest mountain.

The woman had been staying with her father's close friend Syed Taqveem Ahsan after his burial in the city of Lahore when she was allegedly attacked by Ahsan's son.

Ellie Ellison, 29, from Norwich, and the father of her unborn child 'Joe Donor', 50, appeared on ITV's This Morning where Ellie explained how she saw the insemination as a 'deposit.'

Allies of Angela Rayner have been laying the groundwork for her to launch a leadership challenge against Sir Keir Starmer if Labour lose today's crunch Batley and Spen by-election.

Genetics can explain anywhere between 5-17% of when individuals have sex for the first time or have a first child, according to academics at the University of Oxford.

Katy Butler, who had just turned 18 at the time, lost control of her vehicle on a bend just a mile from her home and smashed into a tree in Hamble, Hampshire, in December 2019.

Amanda Holden looked striking in a red and white jumpsuit as she revealed on Heart FM what it was like to spend the day with Prince Harry.

Sewa Badial, 87, and his wife Sukhjit, 73, were found by paramedics at their home on Coventry's most exclusive street on Tuesday. Pictured: Mr Badial's department store.

The stone-built road, which was around 13 feet wide, was unearthed on Saturday in a dig at Coxet Hill led by Stirling University archaeologist Murray Cook.

German interior minister Horst Seehofer condemned the European football governing body for their irresponsible decision to allow large crowds into stadiums amidst the spread of COVID variants.

Associated British Foods (ABF) - the owner of the UK retailer - revealed the record was reached in the 16 weeks to June 19, 'reflecting an increase in both confidence and willingness to spend'.

The Queen and Princess Anne visited the Edinburgh Climate Change Institute (ECCI) at The University of Edinburgh to learn about their work to combat climate change today.

EXCLUSIVE: Footage of the heart-stopping moment the man jumped down onto the tracks at a train station in Kent has been shared exclusively with MailOnline.

The unnamed mother took to the British parenting site Mumsnet to explain she feels she needs a stress-free break with her husband and two-year-old daughter after losing her father earlier this year.

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Donald Trump Jr on Thursday night said the prosecution of the Trump Organization's chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg (left) was a witch hunt, and something from Putin's Russia.

Historian Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse, 49, is fighting against fake history and uses the above image and others to demonstrate how even photograph evidence can be manufactured.

The law was passed in Norwegian parliament last month and will force any person or company making money off their posts to clearly label when a photo of someone's body has been retouched.

The man was filmed on a neighbour's CCTV camera desperately trying to cling onto the side of his boat as it rolled down the hill in Everett, Washington State, late last month.

Dramatic footage shows the moment two organic food store owners in Bowral, NSW, grapple with police while being arrested for refusing to let customers wear masks in their shop.

Some 34,000 Australians stranded overseas may now find it more difficult to get home despite an increase to repatriation flights to Howard Springs near Darwin.

The American drugs giant said there was only a small drop in potency against the 'Delta' variant compared to earlier versions of the virus.

The 2,000lb beast should be living near Greenland in the North Atlantic ocean but probably drifted south while sleeping on an iceberg.

Phylicia Rashad was condemned by current and former students of Howard University, where she is currently dean of its College of Fine Arts. She tweeted 'FINALLY!' after Cosby was freed.

Tucker Carlson said North Koreans will have read the latest issue of Vogue 'with their jaws open' - and said the magazine's description of the Jill Biden as 'a joy multiplier' might be too far even for Kim Jung Un.

Hartin was filmed taking a perfect shot at a watermelon and dancing from the ceiling of a bar in what she fears is an attempt to smear her and stop her from seeing her four year-old twins.

Gavin Newsom, 53, will face a recall election on September 14, it was confirmed on Thursday. Newsom faces no significant Democrat challengers but several Republican rivals.

Experts panned the monument (pictured) in west London as 'an awkward, lifeless shrine' and a 'spiritless hunk of nonsense' in withering reviews in today's newspapers.

Makenzy Beard, 14, borrowed paints and brushes from her mother and began working on canvasses inside her garden shed in Gower, southwest Wales, to pass the time.

Despite seven major cities locked down across the country and coronavirus cases skyrocketing, people around Australia are continuing to flout the rules.

The next few days in New South Wales are 'critical' as the state continues to record new Covid-19 cases in people who have been infectious in the community - with a Coles shopping centre in Sydney's east now on alert.

The images show 119 nearly identical construction sites in China that analysts say mirror features seen at other existing launch facilities in the country.

Amanda Milling, the co-chairman of the Conservatives, said the former health secretary's romance with aide Gina Coladangelo 'was something that came up' on the doorstep.

Queensland has recorded another Covid-19 case after three infections were earlier recorded on Friday - leading to Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk to announce Brisbane would remain in lockdown for another day.

The states' top doctors repeatedly talking down to Australians, telling people what to do and 'overreacting endlessly' to Covid is wearing thin - even to an infectious diseases expert.

Ms Sturgeon said she had been 'very explicit in saying to fans who didn't have tickets for Wembley not to travel' - yet SNP ministers told fans it was fine to travel if they had somewhere 'safe'.

The couple arrested by police for banning masks in their health food store were fervent anti-vaxxers who had posted QAnon and pro-Trump memes on their social media in the past year.

Street seller Raimundo da Silva, 71, starting feeling unwell as he rode to work on his motorbike on Tuesday in the city of Araguaina.

Video filmed by a passerby shows the two men sizing each other up before grappling and almost tumbling into the outside lane between the junction for Blue Bell Hill and the Maidstone turn off.

The White House on Thursday tweeted that the price of a July 4 BBQ was cheaper than last year. Critics were swift to point out that the 16 cent saving did not take inflation into account.

Dr. Anthony Fauci and CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Thursday that vaccinations, not masks, are the tool to protect against the COVID Delta variant.

Saskia Jones' uncles believe Dr Ruth Armstrong and Dr Amy Ludlow must not remain in charge of the Cambridge University Learning Together programme.

A reporter who clashed with Annastacia Palaszczuk at a Covid press conference has said the Queensland Premier is shifting blame to distract from the state's Covid cases and lockdown.

Chef Issa Ismail was helping prepare a wedding banquet at the Hazel wedding hall in Zakho, Iraq on June 15 when he reportedly slipped and fell into a large pot of boiling soup on a kitchen floor.

Marshall quit Mumford & Sons last week after 14 years, following a March tweet in which he praised conservative author Andy Ngo. Marshall spoke to Bari Weiss for her podcast.

Popular items like jelly babies, gummy bears and mini-fried eggs could all be affected with German firm Haribo the latest to be hit by supply chain issues.

Germany is set to ease quarantine rules for fully-vaccinated British travellers as Angela Merkel prepares to meet Boris Johnson today for crunch talks at Chequers.

Malaysians seemingly can't get enough of the AstraZeneca jab - even after it was pulled from its main immunisation program in April.

A defiant hair salon on Sydney's northern beaches was spotted trading on Thursday during lockdown. Salon worker Sharon Carr insists they can trade as an essential service.

A beloved nanny who died this week on Sydney's north shore after going into cardiac arrest is being mourned by devastated family back in Fiji.

Analysis of figures predicts that the isolation figure will soar to 1,734,000 by July 28 if current trends continue, given the steep week-on-week rise in cases and the popularity of the NHS smartphone app.

A 2020 engineering report found the building's ground-floor pool deck was resting on a concrete slab with 'major structural damage' and needed extensive repairs at a cost of more than $16 million.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has blasted her critics as sexist and racist - just six weeks after she sparked fury by refusing to be interviewed by white journalists.

A Republican congressman returned from a trip to the border on Thursday and said that the U.S. has lost all control of security. Rep Bob Good claimed Joe Biden has deliberately given up.

Ms Palaszczuk on Thursday said she wants the travel cap of arrivals into Queensland to be reduced by at least 50 per cent.

South Australia has reported one new Covid-19 case with a baby less than 12 months old testing positive to the virus.

A timber shortage has gripped the construction industry with suppliers struggling to keep up with demand from homebuilders.  

The Optus network is currently down as customers experience mass outages across the country. The first reports of the outages flooded in from 11am on July 2.

Former NRL player Jamil Hopoate, who was charged over a 514kg cocaine import in May, has been bailed to father John's care - with brother Will promising a $200,000 surety.

Ninety per cent of vaccine-related complaints to ACCC-run Scamwatch in June turned out to be from 'legitimate' advice about AstraZeneca or Pfizer jabs.

Dog gastroenteritis has spread to family pets after they visited Citizens park in Melbourne's inner-east in the last three weeks since June 11. Vets have treated more than 100 cases.

Private investigator turned 'funeral-crasher' Bill Edgar from Gold Coast Australian has signed multiple deals to tell his story including a movie deal from Paramount Pictures.

Emma Raducanu aced her toughest test yet last night after defeating 2019 French Open finalist Marketa Vondrousova.

Outside his home in Elkins Park, near Philadelphia, on Thursday, Cosby's spokesman Andrew Wyatt told reporters that he would work again.

The Prime Minister hailed a 'new deal for Australians' as he outlined the stages titled 'vaccinate, prepare and pilot', post vaccination phase, consolidation phase and final phase.

The man who stabbed teenager Maaka Hakiwai and his brother after an attempt by hits mates to steal a cap will spend no less than nine-and-a-half years behind bars.  

Timothy Adrian Sexton, 60, pleaded not guilty to the District court in South Australia, as he was sentenced to 14 years jail for unlawfully maintaining sexual relationships with two girls.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday issued a memorandum that imposes a moratorium on federal executions.

More than 47.7 million Americans will take to the nation's roads and skies this Independence Day. Just 2.5% fewer Americans are expected to travel this year compared to 2019.

An attorney who was involved in legal team in the impeachment of Donald Trump, Daniel Goldman, has said he does not believe the Manhattan DA will bring any additional charges.

Rebecca Vickers, who has lived in the US for the past seven years, made her emotional plea after her mother suffered a stroke and entered intensive care. Ms Vickers said her mother is all alone.

Roughly 1,000 people living in and around Lytton, British Columbia, fled from their homes on Wednesday as flames ripped through the area, engulfing the town in minutes.

'The United States Congress should hear your story and be inspired to bipartisan action. What happened to you should never happen to any other American,' the members wrote

Olympic hammer thrower Gwen Berry, who sparked anger on Thursday with her protest against the national anthem, is being paid by a defund the police group, it has emerged.

Gladys Berejiklian confirmed another 31 cases of coronavirus on Friday morning including 13 active cases in the community.  

A young mother-of-six from Ipswich, Queensland insists she wasn't trying to spit at police officers but rather her former partner, when she was found by cops on the street having stripped down to her bra.

The Trump Organization's chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg was paraded in court wearing handcuffs to hear charges he failed to pay taxes on a company car, apartment and school fees for his grandchildren.

GRAPHIC IMAGE WARNING: Sarah and Ygal Saadoun, of Brooklyn, are suing Peloton after their three-year-old son was left with horrific third-degree burns to his back and sides.

Ms Palaszczuk made the controversial comment at a press conference on Friday morning, where she announced Brisbane will remain in lockdown for another day after the state recorded three new cases.

Sally Tindall, a former adviser to Labor prime minister Julia Gillard, said the increase in employer super contributions to 10 per cent on July 1 could be taken out of some people's pay packages.

'Who shot Ashli Babbitt?' Trump put simply in a statement on Thursday after Nancy Pelosi announced the makeup of the select committee to look into the Capitol Riot.

A woman from Victoria has praised a Woolworths employee after her act of kindness when she popped into the store while she was upset after her pet German shepherd passed away.

State premiers and chief health officers across the country have speculated that the 'magic number' is 80 per cent - but a figure has not been officially agreed.

'The political Witch Hunt by the Radical Left Democrats, with New York now taking over the assignment, continues. It is dividing our Country like never before!' he said in a statement.

The 15-count indictment unveiled on Thursday charged Weisselberg, who has worked for Donald Trump for 48 years, with tax fraud, falsifying business records, and grand larceny.

More than two million West Australians are set to learn when they will be freed from lockdown as the state grapples with its latest coronavirus outbreak.

The Northern Territory could remain in lockdown after an infected miner breached his isolation order and allegedly lied to authorities.

Britain is preparing to allow fully-vaccinated sun-seekers to enjoy foreign holidays, while Australia's slow vaccine rollout sees the nation still trapped within its own borders.

Zorro Ranch, approximately 35 miles from Sante Fe, comes equipped with a 30,000-square-foot house and includes a private grass air strip 4,400-feet long for easy access.

President Joe Biden capped off an emotional day in Florida by visiting a memorial wall honoring those in the building collapse in Surfside, after a wrenching day meeting with families.

Australians could be offered lottery tickets, prizes and gifts to get a Covid jab in an effort to speed up the nation's stalling vaccine rollout. 

New Yorkers will have to face metal detector screenings at this year's 4th of July Fireworks extravaganza, amid a spike in gun violence across the city.

Lockdown will continue for another 24 hours in Brisbane and Moreton Bay as three new community acquired cases were announced on Friday morning. Other LGAs will have lockdown lifted.

A 35-year-old woman was walking in the Williamsburg section on Monday evening when she was attacked and groped, as seen in harrowing surveillance video released by the NYPD.

Brendan Nikolajew has been given just weeks to live after receiving a shock cancer diagnosis. The 29-year-old, who lives in Queensland's Moreton Bay, says he will fight to the end.

Lori Vallow was charged with conspiracy to commit murder in the July 2019 death of her fourth husband, Charles Vallow, in Maricopa County, Arizona, on Tuesday.

After a five-set win against Ugo Humbert in his first Wimbledon clash, Kyrgios continued his good form to beat Gianluca Mager is straight sets on Friday, serving 29 aces to overcome the Italian.

A former senior advisor for former president Donald Trump launched a social media app called GETTR. It's description on the Apple's App Store reads, 'GETTR is a non-bias social network

Judge Loretta Preska ruled Thursday that dozens of documents about Ghislaine Maxwell's personal affairs should be unsealed in two weeks.

Nashville police officer Andrew Delke has agreed to plead guilty to a charge of involuntary manslaughter, instead of first-degree murder, in connection with the 2018 killing of Daniel Hambrick.

A decision on whether Queensland's lockdown will be extended is expected on Friday as the state works to gain control over five unrelated Covid incidents.

Dane Kallungi, 38, was arrested after he allegedly admitted to strangling and burying his wife Jepsy Amaga Kallungi during a phone call to his ex-wife: 'I didn't want to watch her suffer anymore.'

Former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has lashed the Morrison government's vaccine rollout as a phenomenal failure.

Just imagine you are one of the employees working for the national charity Oxfam. This week it emerged that Oxfam had sent out a 'racial justice' survey to its 1,800 strong British staff.

Footage of Team GB sprinter Bianca Williams and her partner Ricardo dos Santos, a fellow athlete, being removed from their car provoked public outrage last July.

BBC Radio 4's official Twitter account reacted to a tweet from Neil Crombie which featured a picture of the bronze image of the Princess of Wales with the caption: 'I'm sorry but this is hideous.'

Health officials are said to have drafted a five-year plan with options for what freedom-limiting restrictions can be freely reimposed in England should cases spike again.

Pinterest on Thursday said it would ban all ads related to weight loss as it said people right now are feeling pressure about their looks after emerging from COVID lockdown after 15 months.

The NFL has fined the Washington Football Team $10 million and owner Dan Snyder is stepping away from day-to-day operations after a league probe into sexual harassment claims.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene blasted the nearly 40 Democrats, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who asked House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy to address her 'dangerous' behavior.

Tucker Carlson has been telling guests on his Fox News show that he voted for Kanye West in 2020, according to a report. The guests were unsure if he was joking, and Carlson did not comment.

NSW Health listed Maroubra's Des Renford Swimming Pool, Club Marconi in Bossley Park, and the Domestic Terminal 2, at Sydney Airport, as new venues of concern on Thu

Florida fire officials confirmed heartbreaking reports of a failed effort to rescue a woman trapped underneath the collapsed Surfside condo whom rescuers could hear crying for help.

Households in the UK have on average more than ten different connected devices. Which? consumer watchdog set up a fake home to see how much they would be targeted.

The unnamed spectator caused the mass crash by holding a cardboard placard in the riders' paths during the first stage of the Tour de France between Brest and Landerneau on Saturday.

One NHS trust chief said medics who have had both jabs and tested negative are pleading to return to the frontline as the NHS must tackle a record backlog of 5.1million people waiting for care.

Senior Labour figures were yesterday considering challenging Sir Keir Starmer for the party leadership as voters went to the polls in a crucial by-election in Batley and Spen.

While risks to youngsters remain low, experts warn they will soon become the biggest source of infection to the vulnerable. Around 62.7 percent of adults have been fully vaccinated

Donald Trump's son Eric blasted prosecutors on Thursday for running a 'political vendetta' against the former president as the first charges against employee are about to be unsealed.

UK Government scientists announced on Wednesday that the top-up vaccines would be offered to up to 32million patients starting from September.

Boston police officer James Clark violated conflict of interest law when he created a fake criminal complaint for his best friend's brother who was on the verge of being fired for missing work.

A deadly shooting in Houston claimed the lives of a young married couple and their six-year-old daughter, and left their 10-year-old child wounded and traumatized. A one-year-old was unharmed.