Ghislaine Maxwell has been found guilty of sex trafficking charges, and speculation is now mounting that she may 'flip' and testify against others in a bid to reduce her sentence.

Eight hospitals in England will start to build temporary structures to house up to 100 Covid patients each. They will be fitted with beds and machines for those who need treatment after intensive care.

New high-tech cameras can can instantly capture motorists calling, texting or scrolling at the wheel. The cameras are being trialled on an undisclosed motorway ahead of a blanket ban next year.

The performance was one of the most memorable moments of the service at Westminster Abbey. However, papers released by the National Archives suggest there was resistance to the plan.

Katrina Jones, who joined the firm as a risk and compliance analyst in 2015, alleges that the 'oppressive and abusive' behaviour of Christopher Holliday, 44, caused her psychiatric harm.

Ghislaine Maxwell, 60, was found guilty of sex trafficking of children on Wednesday, and could be sentenced to up to 65 years in prison. She may well be sent to Danbury prison in Connecticut.

The US has blacklisted the Chinese Academy of Military and Medical Sciences and 11 affiliated institutions for allegedly working to develop 'brain control weaponry' for the armed forces.

RICHARD KAY: Although his name was barely mentioned, Prince Andrew's presence hovered uneasily over every moment of Ghislaine Maxwell's trial.

Los Angeles attorney Lisa Bloom said the conviction of Epstein's madame for sex trafficking brings the Queen's favorite son one step closer to facing a jury.

Fawziyah Javed, 31, was believed to holidaying in Scotland with her husband Kashif Anwar, 27, when she plunged to her death on the famous cliffside at around 9pm on September 2.

After a disappointing Boxing Day sales in terms of footfall - which was down more than a third on 2019 - figures released by Springboard today show how the gap is narrowing on pre-pandemic levels.

The siblings of Ghislaine Maxwell have already begun appealing her sex trafficking conviction, saying they 'firmly believe' in their sister's innocence and are 'disappointed' in the verdict.

The then Labour backbencher wrote to the prime minister in the summer of 1998 demanding he put an end to the 'mystery' surrounding her death the previous August.

The former Blue Peter presenter told Platinum magazine how in 1999 she took her puppies Digger and Buddie to Noel Fitzpatrick, now better known as TV's Supervet.

NHS statistics revealed the proportion of so-called 'incidental' coronavirus admissions had risen to a record 29 per cent in England - sparking claims that official figures were misleading.

Fritzl, 86, kept his daughter Elisabeth locked in a dungeon in the basement of the family home in Amstetten, Austria for 24 years, fathering seven children with her between 1984-2008.

Australia scientists have found what they say is an early driver of Alzheimer's disease by tracking how some genes associated with the condition disrupt brain cells' ability to produce energy.

Once a well-heeled socialite and daughter of a British publishing magnate, Ghislaine Maxwell now faces the rest of her life in a tiny prison cell after being convicted of sex trafficking.

The New York sex abuse case against Prince Andrew was weakened because prosecutors in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial failed to call his accuser as a witness, it was claimed last night.

Virginia Giuffre, who also accused Prince Andrew of sexual assault, said on Twitter that today the jury had given her the 'justice [her] soul had yearned for years.'

Rapid swab kits were not available online and pharmacies across the UK warned they had run out too. Appointments for drive-through and walk-in Covid tests were also unavailable for hours.

Aides secretly instructed US lawyers to assess just how much trouble the president was in over his affair with his intern as they finalised details for the trip, which happened in February 1998.

Alex Boston, 43, pleaded guilty at Liverpool Magistrates' Court on November 12 to stalking the Celebrity Big Brother star, 28.

When Sir Christopher Meyer met the then Texas governor in 1998, he was candid about his lack of international experience despite his own father having been president from 1989 to 1993.

Eurotunnel has warned Britons with second homes on the continent that they will no longer be able to travel through France to their homes in countries such as Spain and Portugal.

The trial of Ghislaine Maxwell cast a spotlight on the lives of her siblings who put their own reputations on the line by showing public support for her.

Months after winning the 1997 general election, Tony Blair's government was hit by a series of damaging headlines and allegations of sleaze regarding the conduct of ministers.

Experts warned the move could have the unintended consequence of pushing up premiums for those who regularly switch insurers for the best deal as the companies seek to protect their bottom line.

Desks, beds and wardrobe sets are among the items to see massive overnight price rises as the costs of shipping, raw materials and energy soar for retailers operating in Britain.

The then prime minister also blocked proposals for a race equality strategy following the landmark report into the 1993 murder of the black teenager by white thugs.

On a wet road in West Yorkshire, early in the morning of November 28, a policeman, coming to the end of his night shift, received a report. The officer in question was PC Alan Godfrey.

Demonstrators in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, were filmed shouting 'shame on you' at NHS testing site staff and appeared to steal testing equipment before dumping it in a bin.

Residents of Charlestown, near St Austell, which stood in for Truro in the BBC drama, claim their lives have been blighted since landowner Rolf Munding installed a parking camera.

The news that the duke is writing his memoirs in which, we are promised, he will be telling the inside story 'behind the scenes of the world's most celebrated family', is remarkable.

The count - which eclipses yesterday's previous record by more than 45,000 - is skewed upwards because it includes five days' worth of backlogged data from Northern Ireland.

Police were called to separate knife attacks on Kilburn High Road and Seven Kings railways station on Wednesday - just an hour apart from one another.

Ryan Connolly, 37, had his phoned seized during a separate police anti-corruption investigation into him in February last year. The content included 'an act which threatened a person's life'.

One of Russia's top diplomats on Wednesday accused the United States and the West of igniting a new Cold War by betraying the trust shown to them by Moscow after the break up of the Soviet Union.

Among 149 local authorities, 30 are running a two-week autumn break, including three - Kent, Peterborough and Bromley - which are introducing it for the first time in 2022.

Barbara Thaxton, who is described as vulnerable, is believed to have left her home in Hackney, east London around 5.35pm on Monday, December 27. She was later seen at Farrington station.

Shadow levelling-up minister Lisa Nandy slammed the decision to hand a six-figure sum to Lord Gage from a levelling-up fund to repair a track on his estate in leafy East Sussex.

A boy, 13, from Surrey was rushed to hospital after he had an allergic reaction to the Facebook virtual reality headset he got for Christmas, swelling his eyes shut.

The highly anticipated new episode of the re-booted series, called 'Twitchers', was released on BBC iPlayer yesterday. Some eagle-eyed viewers spotted at least four hidden jokes.

Conservative MP Sir Roger Gale says there was a global shortage of testing supplies but that the UK was buying 'all that is available' as Brits scramble to stay Covid free before NYE.

The alleged incident is said to have occurred at the supermarket in Dumfries on Tuesday afternoon.

EXCLUSIVE: Three-quarters of UK white-collar workers are considering quitting their jobs or changing their careers due to 'burnout' and a lack of 'work-life balance', a new poll has found.

Social media was flooded with people saying they planned to head to England on Friday, and hard-pressed hospitality businesses are welcoming them with open arms.

Early US Government data reports lateral flow tests are less effective at detecting Omicron. The finding is at odds with UK health chiefs who insist that the tests can detect the new Covid variant.

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has confirmed international travellers will no longer need to provide a negative Covid PCR test to return to Australia.

Lawyers in the US warned today that Andrew's chances of defeating the legal action brought against him by Virginia Roberts Giuffre will now be even harder after Maxwell's convictions.

The new-generation Angara A-5 heavy carrier rocket was launched on Monday from Plesetsk spaceport, but experts say there was a 'malfunction' during separation 12 minutes into the flight.

Roughly 75,000 people and businesses in the UK who were already set up to receive payments from 2,000 companies with Santander accounts were wrongly paid twice.

A brave ice cream parlour employee in Brazil stopped an attempted robbery on 26 December, using a chair to beat the suspect into submission - before wrestling him to the ground

Cameras are not allowed in federal court, so it was down to New York's courtroom artists to depict Maxwell's trial, and her transformation from pre-trial haggard figure into confident woman.

There was confusion as Eurotunnel warned its passengers that anyone with homes in EU countries such as Belgium could no longer drive or take a train through France to get there.

Tom Williams, chief operating officer for Parkrun Global, is asking the Welsh government to allow the organisation's New Year's Day event. Pictured: Cardiff Parkrun, Christmas Day.

Kimberley Sampson, 29, and Samantha Mulchay, 32, gave birth by Caesarean section just weeks apart in hospitals within the East Kent NHS Trust in 2018.

The Prime Minister said people should 'take a test' before heading to festivities but lateral flow tests and PCR test appointments are still unavailable this morning.

Paul 'Lobby" Lobb brought the nightly news to hundreds of thousands of regional Australian viewers for more than a decade before he was unceremoniously sacked by the Nine Network.

Trump listed off nearly every major domestic policy criticism that Republicans have levied against the Biden administration in a newsletter reviewing the president's shortcomings.

Police are growing concerned for missing 13-year-old Selina Dimitrova (pictured) from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, who vanished on Tuesday and may have travelled to north London.

Sean Charles Greer, 27, caused a disturbance during his first court appearance Wednesday. 'You can't make me stay in this [inaudible]!' Greer said.

Swanage Town Council have been forced to abandon their attempt to re-name 'Darkie Lane', as residents slammed the move as 'political correctness gone mad'

Aylee Gordon, 3, of Edneyville, North Carolina, died four days after accidentally shooting herself in the head on Christmas.

Marcello Distefano, boss of the San Carlo Italian chain, admits he will have to close several of their 23 UK restaurants due to staff shortages with staffing for New Year's Eve still touch and go.

Sydneysiders are forced to fork out up to $385 for the best vantage points to catch the city's famous New Year's Eve fireworks display amid the Omicron Covid-19 outbreak.

Footage captured outside the Tower of London earlier today shows the child step into the path of the Guardsmen as they march through the grounds and shout: 'Make way!'

Abel Elias Acosta, allegedly fired off more than 20 shots at the Garland Texaco, Texas, on Sunday, killing three fellow teenagers.

Rick Saleeby, (not pictured) a former producer for Jake Tapper's The Lead, was forced to resign from the network after his arrest on December 18.

Dozens of yachts, some owned by the world's richest people, have been pictured moored up in St Barts - a French island in the Caribbean - as guests soak up some winter sun post-Christmas.

The Biden administration is under pressure from Americans as many wait hours to be tested for COVID - while the US broke a record for new daily average cases with 301,472.

An Indigenous influencer from NSW has hit back at internet trolls for saying her light skin and blue eyes mean she isn't Aboriginal.

JobSeeker unemployment benefits would barely cover the rent in a cheaper apartment in Melbourne or Adelaide. But with job vacancies now at a 13-year high, there are other options than the dole.

The Irish citizen reached the third floor of the building in a breach that has ignited a review into the security of the People's House.

CHRISTOPHER HART: Some months ago, Kew's management team announced bizarre plans to 'decolonise' its collections.

Dimension, real name Robert Etheridge, arrived on a flight from the UK via Doha on Dec. 16 and returned three negative tests before testing positive on Dec. 27, as a result of a day nine test.

Australians will no longer need to isolate if they are exposed to Covid at work and will instead only need to monitor for symptoms in major changes to the definition of a close contact.

Cicada expert Dr Lindsay Popple has revealed why unusually wet weather and surprisingly long life cycles affect cicada's 'singing' as well as what inspires the little critter to create music in the first place.

Jason Bragg, his partner, and his nephew Andre were on a festive Boxing Day fishing trip in Kaipara Harbour, New Zealand, when they accidentally caught a massive great white shark.

Travellers to Tasmania will be required to take a rapid antigen test one day before arriving in the island state, as it moves to scrap its 72-hour PCR test requirement.

Memorial Hospital of Gardena, in Los Angeles, is being clammed for leaving nearly 20 bodies of dead COVID-19 patients outside in the rain before moving them to a mobile refrigerator.

BREAKING NEWS: Fire at Old Parliament building in Canberra. Protesters at the site are reportedly chanting 'let it burn'.

Kuachua Brillion Xiong, 25, is now being held at Pottawattamie County Jail in Council Bluffs, after authorities seized an AR-15 rifle and ammunition, in his car on December 21.

The US overtook the UK in June as the G7 nation hardest hit by COVID deaths on a total per capita basis, and has maintained the ignominious title ever since.

Facing the rest of her life behind bars, Ghislaine Maxwell has one option to significantly reduce the time she will be ordered to serve - flip on the big names who have been linked to Jeffrey Epstein.

Maria Elita, who owns the Frigg Café and Catering business with stores in Brisbane and the Gold Coast, was forced to shut her Manly West venue for a week on December 23 after a worker got sick.

The Australian Medical Association warns a move to relax close contact and isolation restrictions will let Omicron to rip through the population even more quickly - and threatens to overwhelm hospitals.

Australia is set to see in the New Year with contrasting extreme weather: heavy rain and and big seas to the north, and dangerously hot weather to the south, including Melbourne.

EXCLUSIVE: Analysis of official data shows just 1.5 per cent of people in England catching Covid during the Omicron crisis are hospitalised, compared to 10.9 per cent during the Delta wave.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: With pathetic opportunism, Labour hopped off the fence last night to brand the Covid test shortages a 'shambles'.

The enigmatic, unsettling - and depraved - relationship between Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein exerts a terrible fascination.

Research has revealed more than 100 pre-loved presents were listed every minute on Boxing Day by Australians on eBay, with Victorians the most prolific peddlers.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Health Minister Greg Hunt were identified as casual contacts of Covid-positive cases after attending an event at Bribie Island Surf Club in Queensland.

A man has died after being pepper sprayed by police in NSW's Central West.

Australians will no longer have to wait several days before receiving Covid test results as testing centres switch from PCR tests to rapid antigen tests.

Despite the secrecy the trial was conducted with- with no cameras allowed in the courtroom and key documents being sealed -, some details about the 12 jurors were unveiled.

State premiers have agreed to a new definition of a close Covid-19 contact in a National Cabinet meeting with the Prime Minister on Thursday.

One of Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent accusers, Australian resident Virginia Giuffre, said she hoped others involved in their trafficking operation would now be held accountable.

Western Australia escalated its COVID-19 response with tougher border rules, banning Queenslanders and South Australians. Premier Mark McGowan blamed the Omicron surge.

A two-year-old has tragically died while positive for Covid-19 in South Australia.

A 25-year-old man from Ellenbrook has been charged in relation to a horrific sexual assault of a seven-year-old girl in her Ellenbrook home on Boxing day.

Dozens of family and friends gathered to say goodbye to the Jalailah Jayne-Maree Jones who was described as 'one of God's angels and a perfect star' by her heartbroken grandparents.

A man who allegedly sexually assaulted and choked a seven-year-old Perth girl in her bed has been charged.

NSW Fire and Rescue and police services attended a Sydney home on Thursday following reports of an explosion. No one in the home was injured in the explosion caused by a ruptured cockroach bomb.

A driver on an international licence has been banned after he was caught doing twice the speed limit in a quiet country town street - but he managed to avoid a harsher penalty on a technicality.

The Labor leader posted the picture on his Twitter account on Tuesday with the caption: 'We need more nurses. That's why Labor is going to make 465,000 TAFE places free.'

Thompson also said that an interim report on the committee's findings can be expected as early as summer of 2022. The panel is due to issue a final report later that fall.

The victim was shot in Carnelian Street in Leppington as he got out of a black BMW SUV, but he escaped with three non-life threatening wounds to his legs.

Adelaide City councillor Phillip Martin is supporting the chief health officer and is urging Adelaide City Council to cancel New Years Eve celebrations after he returned his ticket.

The remote community of Palm Island has received a temporary morgue as the island's mayor warns residents to get vaccinated, predicting up to 60 people could die if Covid spreads there.

A man blew more than six times the legal alcohol limit after mounting a median strip and smashing his car into a street sign in Sydney's west.

Queenslanders are still getting used to living with Covid two weeks after the state - which detected a record 2,222 new cases on Thursday - finally opened its borders to the rest of the nation.

Rapid spread of the Omicron variant continues in Queensland as the state recorded 2,222 cases of Covid-19.

Up until now Australia health authorities have shunned rapid antigen tests in the fight against Covid and relied on PCR lab testing - but now with 18,000 cases a day that has all changed.

David Warner has hinted at retirement from international cricket as he reflects on Australia's 3-0 victory over England in The Ashes and aims for a whitewash in the next two tests.

Tyson Robert Scholz, 36, has been caught faking a glamorous wedding proposal to girlfriend Sophie Lee Anderson with a helicopter, diamond rings, and a private jet.

2021 has had its fair share of ups and downs, but Pugh has been there to chronicle it all - From England reaching the Euros final to Insulate Britain blocking the M25, here's 2021 in review...

Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis and his estranged wife Abbey Wilson have gone back and forth on social media accusing one and other of poor parenting.

As Australia closed in on 20,000 new Covid cases in 24 hours on Thursday, medical experts have warned the official figures are just the tip of the iceberg - and the real situation was much worse.

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet said lockdowns were not what the people wanted and that the burden on the state's resources was reduced by 92.7 per cent of people being vaccinated.

The Prime Minister made his debut on the Chinese video-sharing app over Christmas after repeatedly criticising the platform for harming children and posing a security threat.

Federal prosecutors announced that Amanda Renee Henry, 43, turned herself into the FBI agents in Nashville on Tuesday after allegedly attacking two flight attendants on a November Spirit flight.

More questions were raised about when the Biden administration will be able to deliver on its promise to have 500 million at-home tests with news contracts will be signed 'late next week.'

Dino Tomassetti, 29, of Hewlett Harbor, Long Island, allegedly shot his parents Christmas day over a custody dispute when he tried to take his one-year-old son from the family home.

A new study has found catching Omicron could protect you against more severe variants of Covid in the future - and even found the strain neutralises the more deadly Delta.

Tech entrepreneur Scott Borgerson, 46, secretly married 59-year-old Maxwell in 2016, but the union was kept secret even from their closest friends and family until her arrest.

A rare pygmy hippopotamus calf - the first born at Sydney's Taronga Zoo in four years - has died unexpectedly.

New South Wales has recorded another 12,226 Covid-19 cases and one death while Victoria's infections have climbed by 5,137 and 13 deaths - but ICU rates remain low.

The ruling was discovered by a Twitter user Wednesday who wrote: 'Tax szn is around the corner. Remember to report your income from illegal activities and stolen property to the IRS.'

Just 0.1 per cent of cases of the variant in NSW are in the ICU, and just 0.3 per cent of Victorians, where patients actually declined by two. Vast majority of patients are unvaccinated or have Delta.

Lori Caldeira, who shockingly confessed she 'stalked' sixth-grade students' searches to seek out recruits for a school LGBTQ+ club, now claims her comments were meant to be 'tongue in cheek.'

Ms Lambie says Prime Minister Scott Morrison should have sent every Australian a Christmas present they could really use - a rapid antigen test.

South Australia's chief health officer Professor Nicola Spurrier was slammed for asking the state's residents to have their 'quietest New Year's eve ever' as officials try to slow the rise in cases.

On Monday Biden signed the National Defense Authorization Act, which included a 2.7 percent pay increase across both military and civilian Defense Department employees.

'He was a man of action, and a man of his word - guided by faith, loyalty, and unshakeable resolve,' said Biden in a proclamation Wednesday announcing that flags would be lowered.

Flight nurses Tina Ward (foreground, circled) and Laurie Gentz (background, circled), have been identified as two of the four people who were killed in Monday's medical plane crash near San Diego.

The Golden State Warriors broadcast team has come under fire for comments deemed insensitive after they mocked Denver Nuggets' Facundo Campazzo on Tuesday night.

Judge Trevor McFadden became the second to reject the argument on Tuesday and issued a ruling saying defendant David Lee Judd had not done enough to show discrimination.

'Delta Karen' Patty Cornwall said 'I am the grinch and I'm stealing Christmas' before attacking fellow Tampa-to-Atlanta passenger Russell Miller two days before the holiday.

A Walmart in New Jersey was forced to close for days after more than 90 workers tested positive for COVID a day before the state recorded a record breaking 20,000 daily new cases on Wednesday.

More than 3,000 passengers aboard a Carnival Cruise Line ship have beeb unable to visit two of the first three Mexican cities on the itinerary due to a COVID-19 outbreak.

Judge Alison Nathan is becoming increasingly concerned that the rapid spread of the coronavirus could strike jurors and force them to end their deliberations without a decision

The father of a young boy who was shot and killed last year in San Francisco slammed Chesa Boudin Wednesday for laws that will allow one of the boy's killers to walk free before the decade is through.

The holiday travel nightmare continues on for it's sixth day with no end in sight with 945 flights cancelled and nearly 4,000 delayed as airlines brace for winter storms in the Western U.S.

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers has doubled down on his skepticism of the COVID-19 vaccine: 'If science can't be questioned, it's not science anymore.'

Lily Ebert, who has ten grandchildren and 34 great-grandchildren, celebrated her birthday on Wednesday. She was on one of the last trains carrying Hungarian Jews to enter Auschwitz in 1944.

The test-positivity rate for COVID-19 has hit the highest rate since early in the pandemic in New York city and state, where roughly one in five who were tested on Monday were positive for the virus.

California's Sierra Nevada recorded a record breaking nearly 17-feet of snow this month after the region experienced months of extreme drought that triggered water shortages and stoked wildfires.

England's hapless cricketers have been described as the worst-ever touring team to visit Australia, by Aussie great Ricky Ponting.

Darwin has been rocked by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake which struck Indonesia overnight.