Photos show people in London riding Tube services and traffic building up on the A102 Blackwall Tunnel approach in Greenwich during rush hour this morning after the PM axed Covid curbs.

The immediate threat to Boris Johnson from Partygate has receded after the defection of Red Wall MP Christian Wakeford to Labour shocked the Tories into closing ranks.

The Prime Minister said the Government is no longer asking people to work from home. He called on people to speak to their employers about arrangements for returning to the office.

Luke Whitehouse, 34, and Lachlan Mantell, 37, were told by the owners of their desired property Luke Main, 33, and his wife Dr Joanna Brunker, 34, that they wouldn't sell to 'two men in a partnership'.

Malik Faisal Akram, 44, said his decision to kidnap a rabbi and three others at the Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville in Saturday was his own declaration of war on America.

Two men have been arrested in Birmingham and Manchester as part of the investigation into the Texas synagogue attack by British hostage-taker Malik Faisal Akram, police said today.

The move will give the hard-hit travel industry another boost after the Government scrapped pre-return tests and costly post-arrival PCR swabs earlier this month.

Andrew Watts, 40, from Bexley, had one of the longest patient stays doctors had ever seen after being admitted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital, in Woolwich, on Christmas Day 2020.

Czech singer Hana Horka died after catching COVID on purpose in order to start having a 'free' life again, saying she longed to go back to the cinema, on vacation, to take a sauna, to the theater.'

Sadiq Khan has said customers on the Tube and buses will still have to don masks in London - despite the Prime Minister ending the rule to wear them.

Professor Alice Gast continues in her £519,000-a-year role as president of Imperial College London even though her behaviour was found to fall 'short' in a secret QC-led investigation.

Downing Street announced last week that a member of his family had tested positive for the virus. It did not state who the relative was but it is understood to be his daughter Romy.

Tory turncoat Christian Wakeford was branded 'Christian Wineford' over his drinking. And Dehenna Davison was accused of 'often being on the whisky and Coke in the afternoons'.

President Joe Biden said his guess is that Russia will 'move in' when asked if Vladimir Putin would invade Ukraine, saying he was 'very concerned' about the situation there.

The former stripper denies what he describes as 'false allegations' and insists he will cooperate with police inquiries to clear his name.

From today, it will no longer be mandatory for pupils to wear face coverings while learning at school.

The Prime Minister was snapped with the mask-mishap as he left Downing Street ahead of Wednesday's Prime Minister's Questions.

Tim Davie, 54, reportedly told employees that the licence fee settlement, which will see the fee frozen at £159 for two years, would require the BBC to rethink its operational structure.

Around 80 firefighters from 13 fire station crews across the county were called to the warehouse complex off Dale Street, in the Ossett area, just before 8.20pm.

Excitable members of the so-called 'Pork Pie Plot' of rebel Red Wall MPs had briefed journalists that the PM would be facing a vote of no confidence by early afternoon - and 5pm at the latest.

The dog-themed screenings are taking place at the Ducie Street Warehouse complex in Manchester, where owners are already welcome to take their pets into the cinema.

Jozef Puska, who was arrested on Tuesday appeared before a special sitting of Tullamore District Court last night. Following his court appearance, he was taken to Cloverhill Prison.

Almost two-thirds of menopausal women surveyed in the UK said their workplace had not introduced any kind of policy to make things easier for them.

Pensioners will be hit particularly hard after ministers broke the 'triple lock' promise, meaning their pensions will tick up by just 3.1 per cent in April instead of rising in line with inflation.

People who watch TV for four hours or more a day are a third more likely to suffer from blood clots than those who watch for two-and-a-half hours, University of Bristol researchers have found.

Experts at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) pioneered the Artificial Intelligence programme to help healthcare staff during times 'when PCR tests are not readily available'.

Superbugs, bacteria resistant to commonly prescribed antibiotics caused 1.2million deaths could have been a factor in nearly 5million a study by experts Washington and Oxford has found.

The Office for Students (OfS) wants to eliminate 'low-quality' courses by setting a new threshold requiring courses to send at least 60 per cent of students to further study or professional employment.

A close ally of the PM said last night that Mr Johnson was 'delighted' about Mr Wakeford's move as it has given the party a common enemy, while a senior Tory MP said it had 'united' the backbenches.

Britain may add to the 2,000 anti-tank missile launchers sent to Ukraine this week to try and thwart any Russian invasion, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said last night.

Grassroots hard Left figures in the party lashed out at the Bury South MP's recent voting record and questioned why he was being allowed in by Sir Keir Starmer.

The star, who gained international attention for his portrayal of a young Hannibal Lecter in Hannibal Rising, was hospitalised after Tuesday's accident in the Alps.

Plans are being drawn up for soldiers to construct temporary housing for Channel migrants on Ministry of Defence land across the UK. The project is likely to cost tens of millions of pounds.

Muriel McKay's killer, Nizamodeen Hosein, revealed last month the location on a farm where he buried a woman who died in a bungled kidnapping more than 50 years ago.

Brian Harwood, of Penrith, Cumbria died after a Polaris Ranger vehicle pulling a trailer fell into a river when the wooden bridge, supported by scaffolding, collapsed in Lancashire.

The image of Marine Scotland worker DeeAnn Fitzpatrick went viral after she claimed she was subjected to the ordeal for blowing the whistle on abusive and misogynist behaviour in the office.

Chris and Millie Adams said Matthew Carter had left them 'living in a nightmare' after building the 3ft barrier at the house in Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire.

Kyrell Matthews died with a litany of internal injuries including 41 rib fractures and a cut to his liver as prosecutors say he was subject to serious abuse before he died at a London flat in October 2019.

Blackpool forward Beryly 'Bez' Lubala (pictured), 24, is accused of grabbing the 18-year-old by the hair, telling her to stop making noise and 'be a good girl' before the alleged rape on September 13, 2019.

Researchers from King's College London and the Australian National University found heparin - which costs around £33 per dose - improves oxygen levels by 70 per cent in virus patients.

Two-month-old Malik Olayia was found unconscious and not breathing at a flat in Harlow, Essex. Ellodie Goncalves, 31, and Muritala Olaiya-Imam, 36, were charged with murder.

The Duke of Cambridge was leaving the Foundling Museum in London today when a journalist from Sky News asked him: 'Your Royal Highness, could I just ask, do you support Prince Andrew?'

Paolo Messeri was sacked from The Royal Hospital For Neuro-disability in London but has now won his claim for unfair dismissal after the tribunal ruled there was insufficient evidence against him.

The Prime Minister went into quarantine on March 27, 2020, and was later taken to London's St Thomas's Hospital, where he spent three days in the high-dependency unit amid fears for his life.

It marks the first week that the ONS has recorded a fall in infections in England since Omicron first took off in late November and the trend now matches the Government's daily stats.

Charlotte Buesden, 28, was killed after her Nissan Qashqai collided with the front of a HGV on a busy road in Kemsley, Kent on August 23.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex had been expected to attend the memorial at Westminster Abbey which was announced by the Queen on December 23 and is due to take place in spring.

Cheeryn Allette worked at the Scarsdale Grange Nursing Home (pictured) in Sheffield, South Yorkshire - for 13 years until she was sacked in January 2021 for refusing to be vaccinated against Covid.

Those visiting the Duke of York's official Twitter page @thedukeofyork today were greeted with a message saying 'this account doesn't exist - try searching for another' just hours after it was still live.

The Chancellor is said to have hit out at the speed of the announcement about the £159 annual levy, which was revealed in the Mail on Sunday and a later tweet by Nadine Dorries.

Allies have insisted there is no prospect of the PM resigning, despite admitting that he attended a boozy Downing Street bash at the height of lockdown in May 2020.

All frontline workers must have had two doses of the vaccine by April 1, meaning the first must have been administered by February 3.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the jobless rate fell to 4.1 per cent between September and November. That left unemployment just a fraction above the 4 per cent seen before Covid hit.

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Ms Price, 43, who was married to Mr Hayler from 2013 to 2018 and had two of his children, has admitted she has gone to the police about him herself.

Angela Terry, from Somerset, said Britons need to dump the glass houses because they 'act like a furnace' for the rest of the home.

Nick Kyrgios and Andy Murray have both complained after Australian Open fans used a Cristiano Ronaldo chant which sounds a lot like booing during their opening matches.

Police investigating the murder of 86-year-old Freda Walker in Derbyshire say CCTV has identified potential witnesses - sparking hope the killer too may have been caught on camera.

An under pressure Nick Kyrgios has lost the first set of his tough second round Australian Open match up against the World No. 2, with the frustrated Aussie blowing up at the chair umpire.

Jason Isaacs said he would not be drawn into the trans debate, describing it as a 'minefield', adding that he would not 'jump to stab Rowling in the back' over her views on trans rights.

Amy Wainman, 36, spotted the ghostly eel-like creature with an almost completely transparent body off the coast of Cape Town in South Africa's Western Cape.

Spectators gasped as skater and performer Lukasz Malewski missed a landing ramp and fell 20 feet to the arena floor during a stunt at the Flic Flac circus in Duisburg, Germany.

Prosecutions in England and Wales fell from 6,394 in 2016/17 to 3,025 in 2020/21, while the number of convictions went from 4,751 to 2,595 in the same period, data obtained by the NSPCC reveals.

Parents have launched a campaign to prevent 'overzealous' schools from imposing masks in schools after teaching unions threatened to derail Boris Johnson's easing of Covid curbs in England.

Kylie Patten posted a series of pictures of three-month-old Kevin John Patten on her Facebook account two weeks ago and called him her 'cutie'.

Charlise Mutten's mother has been revealed to be expecting a baby with the nine-year-old's alleged killer.

The pieces - Girl With Balloon, Kissing Coppers and Vandalised Oils (Choppers) - will be up for sale in the first edition of Sotheby's The Now Evening Auction in London on March 2.

One superannuation fund outperformed all others in 2021, even in a 'remarkable' year for Australian funds, which saw median growth of 13.4 per cent. How did yours perform?

Kim Jong Un has not tested inter-continental ballistic missiles or nukes since 2017 after putting launches on hold, but fears are growing the tests will restart after the US crossed a 'danger line'.

FBI agents have been spotted conducting a 'court-authorized' investigation at the Laredo home and office of United States Representative Henry Cuellar, who has vowed to cooperate fully.

The senior Conservative told the Prime Minister to 'in the name of God, go' in the Commons on Wednesday shortly after one of the newest Tory MPs defected to Labour.

Britney's attorney, citing a New York Times article, claimed Jamie has responsible for a recording device that was secretly installed in Britney's bedroom and her phone calls being monitored.

Shocking footage has emerged of the moment an allegedly stolen vehicle driven by a man and woman rams into three police cars at a Melbourne carpark - causing injuries to an officer's legs.

Zhi Sin Lee has been fined after she admitted to accepting an internship at a Sydney hospital where she worked 126 shifts despite not being a registered health practitioner.

Vishal Garg, 43, will be returning to his 'full-time duties' after taking time off to figure out what kind of 'leader' he wanted to be, he announced in a company letter on Tuesday.

Tennis boss Craig Tiley has sidestepped questions about Novak Djokovic in a tense interview with the host broadcaster of the Australian Open.

A woman approached an eight-year-old boy who was with two of his siblings in Brooklyn and made anti-Semitic statements to them all before spitting on them.

'Eliminating the filibuster would be the easy way out. It wasn't meant to be easy,' centrist Democratic Senator Joe Mahcin said Wednesday during a Senate floor debate on voting rights legislation.

Donald Trump on Wednesday night denied he was intimidating to the Republican party, after Joe Biden claimed there was 'one man out of office' who 'could intimidate an entire party'.

The Australian Federal Court has revealed judges' reasons for Novak Djokovic was deported, siding with Immigration Minister Alex Hawke on all grounds.

President Joe Biden has confirmed that he plans to keep Vice President Kamala Harris on the ticket in 2024, following rumors of tensions between the pair. 

GlaxoSmithKline's chief scientific officer Hal Barron, left, is leaving to run a new privately-owned biotech start-up backed by Jeff Bezos that hopes to reverse the ageing process.

The offending driver was caught by Kent Police as part of a new crackdown on dangerous driving on major roads and motorways across the county.

Pasadena police have arrested a man in connection with the fatal stabbing of a UCLA student last week, according to reports. The DA described her murder as 'heartbreaking'.

Trump hit back at reports of a bitter rift with Republican Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis on Wednesday, insisting they had a good relationship.

Trent Twomey, National President of the Pharmacy Guild, explained it would be more 'convenient' for his family to contract Covid-19 now before his children return to school in a few weeks time.

The Pentagon has declassified and publicly released video footage of a U.S. drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 civilians, including seven children, in the final hours of the chaotic withdrawal.

Justin Stein allegedly spent five hours towing a boat carrying the body of schoolgirl Charlise Mutten encased in a barrel on a five hour trek before dumping her in remote bush on the Colo River.

Ivanka, her husband Jared Kushner and their three children - Arabella, Joseph and Theodore - exited the building and got into a black car with luggage. It is unclear where the family was headed.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has angrily denied a rumour that his government has diverted rapid antigen tests ordered by state governments and other private companies.

The CIA has said the strange and mysterious symptoms are not as a the result of a sustained global campaign by a hostile power. There have been 200 reported cases of the unexplained illness.

Heavy rain is expected for large parts of Australia on the weekend but capital cities are mostly in for good summer beach weather with the exception of a few showers across Sydney.

A Queenslander who saw what looked like a deadly brown snake hiding in the laundry asked a neighbour to catch it - resulting in the serpent being badly injured.

Caitlyn Jenner said  the 'woke world' is not working for women's sports and is calling on the NCAA to adjust their transgender policy for sports in the wake of UPenn's Lia Thomas' performance.

A bizarre Facebook page has resurfaced showing the mother of allegedly murdered schoolgirl Charlise Mutten licking the windows of police cars and glass doors in public venues.

2GB radio host Ray Hadley has launched another scathing attack on Dominic Perrottet accusing him of lying about the state of NSW's hospital system on Thursday.

Biden has been criticized over his cognitive health throughout his presidency. Jones, however, alleges his 'foggy and meandering' answers are a 'real problem' if 'you're also not winning'.

NSW has recorded a drop in Covid-19 cases and hospitalisations as Victoria reported a spike in cases with 21,966 new infections.

Forensic officers scoured the home for clues on Thursday and took away the large freezer for further examination as Homicide Squad detectives joined local police to set up a strike force into the death.

Ghislaine Maxwell's attorneys have requested that her sex trafficking conviction be overturned and the case be retried, due to a juror's possible failure to disclose that he was sexually abused.

Hospitality workers are far from the only staff desperately needed, with demand for farmers now at record highs. Heavy rainfall and Omicron is creating a new kind of labour market chaos.

A heavyweight Australian investor believes welfare recipients and asylum seeks should be put to work on farms to help solve the country's labour shortage crisis.

Andrew Bogut said he received a letter from the Victorian Electoral Commission threatening to fine the ex-NBA star over social media posts he made which were critical of the Andrews Government.

The wheelchair tennis chair didn't disappoint in his entertaining post-match interview with the world number three at the Australian Open in Melbourne.

Residents of Western Australia remain in the dark as Mark McGowan's government are yet to release the plans for the state finally re-opening on February 5.

Victoria's Premier Dan Andrews has declared that he will not shut down schools as the state pushes forward with a new Covid-19 strategy.

US Marine Louis Barrera, 19, was charged for driving the vehicle involved in a fatal crash that left two other Marines dead and 17 injured, after a military truck crashed in North Carolina on Wednesday.

Embattled Tennis Australia boss Craig Tiley has received a volley of boos from fans as he made his first public appearance since the Novak Djokovic visa debacle.

Trump slammed Democrats and their 'witch hunts' for investigating his adult children on Wednesday evening, claiming they had ruled President Joe Biden's son Hunter to be off limits.

An 11-month-old baby girl was sitting with her mother, 32, in a car in the Bronx at 6:45pm on Wednesday night when two men began shooting at each other, injuring the baby in the crossfire.

Missy Hernandez, 30, went missing on December 7, in Huron, California. Her friends became worried she ignored calls and texts. Ramon Jimenez, 41, has been arrested for murder.

Pita Taufatofua, Tonga's oil-clad Olympic flag bearer, has raised more than $500,000 in disaster relief after the nation was smashed by a volcanic eruption and tsunami last Saturday.

Katherine Keating, the New York-based daughter of former prime minister Paul Keating, has been seen back in Sydney in the company of hotels king Justin Hemmes.

Mr Morrison, who is often pictured behind the wheel of forklifts and other industrial vehicles, wanted children to be allowed drive forklifts to help get items onto supermarket shelves more quickly.

The world number one is reportedly preparing to launch legal action against the Australian government over his deportation on the eve of the Australian Open.

Zeshi Wu, 28, has received bail over the theft of 42,000 rapid antigen tests worth around $500,000 when they were were uncovered in two Rosebery storage units on Wednesday.

Cleo's mother Ellie Smith and stepfather Jake Gliddon have been seeking advice from other parents whose children have been thrust into the spotlight after suffering comparable ordeals.

The Chinese-made MG ZS is by far Australia's most popular electric car with more than a quarter of the market. The federal government's Climate Change Authority wants to phase out petrol cars.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern confirmed New Zealand will scrap lockdowns once Omicron cases emerge in the community and will instead adopt its traffic light Covid-19 protection framework.

Joe Biden claimed five Republican senators have told him they'd vote alongside Democrats on various bills, but expressed fear Donald Trump would unleash a primary challenger.

The vehicle smashed into the police vehicles at the Westfield in Airport West, injuring the legs of one officer just before midday on Thursday.

Police made the horror discovery last night as they searched a house in Corowa, 60km west of Albury on the NSW-Victoria border, after reports of a missing infant.

Britney's legal team presented a letter in court requesting Jamie admit to the alleged wrongdoings, which include the affair with Lou and the trip to the Holy Land,

Justin Stein, 31, was charged with murdering the schoolgirl and denied bail after her body was found in a barrel in scrub near the Colo River in Sydney's north-west.

The TGA has given the green light to Novavax - the first protein COVID-19 vaccine approved in Australia.

The woman filmed herself angrily confronting the masked man as he stood outside Vermont South Shopping Centre in Melbourne's east holding a paper sign and a Woolworths bag.

Australia's unemployment rate has fallen to a 14-year low of 4.2 per cent. The Australian Bureau of Statistics data covered December as a surge in Omicron cases worsened work shortages.

WA Premier Mark McGowan has labelled NSW's $5million hotel quarantine invoice as 'arrogant' and 'unAustralian' and revealed he threw the 'ridiculous' bill in the bin.

The Prime Minister said that 'from now' No10's work from home guidance will no longer apply, and face masks will no longer be required in school classrooms in England from tomorrow.

Australian biologist and jellyfish expert Doctor Lisa-ann Gershwin has explained why there is a current 'gobsmacking abundance' of the marine creatures at beaches across the nation.

Sunrise Hosts David Koch and Natalie Barr grilled Health Minister Greg Hunt on the nation's lack of Rapid Antigen Tests on Thursday morning.

Former President Trump ripped into journalists for asking soft questions during his successor Joe Biden's White House press conference on Wednesday evening.

Jim Belushi said John suffered brain damage and used drugs to self medicate. He believes if John had used cannabis, instead of cocaine and heroin, that he would be alive still today.

Police from Albury made the horror discovery last night as they searched a house during a hunt for a missing child in Corowa in the Murray River region.

Charlise Mutten's heartbroken cousin has broken her silence to pay tribute to the 'sweet, innocent' girl allegedly murdered by her stepfather and dumped in bushland.

Superstitions are not uncommon among athletes searching for an edge - but the on-court mannerisms of Japan's Naomi Osaka at the Australian Open are bizarre to say the least.

Hunter Biden is being investigated by senators Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley for 'use of government-sponsored travel while he conducted private business.'

Joe Biden admitted his administration fell short on supplying the U.S. with coronavirus tests, but during his Wednesday press conference said he believed the pandemic was getting better.

'Shocked' Australian mum Chloe called for her husband after finding an angry scorpion when she cut into some fresh broccoli bought at Aldi on the NSW South Coast.

Experts have suggested that by focusing on protecting the mouth and nose, residents may be more vulnerable as virus droplets can travel through the eyes into the respiratory system.

Queensland has announced 16,812 new cases of Covid-19 and nine deaths. There are now 850 people in hospital, with 48 in ICU and 28 people needing ventilation.

Radim Passer, 58, posted a video online of himself racing down the A2 between Berlin and Hanover. Like many sections of autobahn there was no speed limit.

A Queensland mother is furious after her daughter suffered a serious facial injury at daycare that required surgery - but staff did not alert her and thought it was minor.

Former Attorney-General Christian Porter and his barrister Sue Chrysanthou have been ordered to pay $430,200 to cover the legal costs of Jo Dyer, a friend of the woman who accused Mr Porter of rape.

Jane Hartley, 71, is a prominent Democratic fundraiser who was US ambassador to France and Monaco during the Obama administration. Mr Biden announced the decision yesterday.

Two pills to help treat Covid infections have been approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration for the first time in Australia.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a bid by former president Donald Trump to block the release to a congressional committee of documents related to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.

In Victoria, NSW and Queensland 18 is the minimum age for getting a licence to drive a forklift, but Mr Morrison will reportedly ask at today's national cabinet meeting for this to be lowered.

Tennis star Novak Djokovic reportedly purchased a majority stake in a biotech company looking to develop a treatment against Covid-19 in the lead up to the Australian Open.

Shares in the aircraft manufacturer fell from $225 to $214 throughout the day, wiping $5billion from the company's valuation.