At least 17 people were killed and scores injured when a truck carrying explosives to a gold mine in western Ghana collided with a motorcycle.

Ilyan Benamor, 15, will rub shoulders with the elite at the world's most famous school in Windsor, Berkshire, which counts Princes William and Harry and Prime Minister Boris Johnson among its alumni.

Statisticians at the Office for National Statistics estimated eight per cent of youngsters aged two to 11 had Covid on any given day in the week to January 15, the equivalent of one in 13.

Matthew Farmer, 42, knifed his ex-partner of 15 years, Stacey Clay, 39, repeatedly, in the garden of her home in Nottingham. CCTV footage saw him buying a knife from his workplace.

The UK Health Security Agency today said BA.2 is now a 'variant under investigation'. This category is reserved for variants that are spreading in the UK.

MailOnline has been inundated with emails from people who had already flown into Sin City from across the US, Canada, Mexico, the UK and Europe to see the star.

Matthew Willson, 31, from Surrey, was staying in an upmarket suburb of Atlanta, Georgia having flown to America last week to visit his California-born partner Kate Shepard, a physicist.

Aimee Jones, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, denied she was on drugs hours before her daughter died, but said someone on cocaine could care for a baby as it 'makes you more alert'.

Steve Freeman, who sat in front of the woman in first class, said she 'tried loads of different masks, complained about each mask'. He also said she appeared drunk and was 'extremely abusive'.

A poll found more than half of Scots believe the saga threatening to engulf Boris Johnson has hurt the case for the Union.

The war over WFH turned sour today after Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng ordered civil servants who are avoiding their offices in Whitehall in central London to 'get back to work'.

University of Bristol researchers found girls carry 13.4lb (6.1kg) more bodyfat at the age of 24 if their maternal great-grandfathers' smoked before the age of 13 than if they didn't.

Boris Johnson is spending the weekend at his country retreat after fending off an initial coup bid from so-called 'Pork Pie' plotters - but even supporters admit that his fate hangs in the balance.

Kieran Hayler, 34, angrily denied the accusations from ex-wife Katie Price, who says she has also given a statement to detectives from Sussex Police.

Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland could all see an increase in NATO presence after its member states held talks over expanding their presence in the region.

A furious backlash in India has forced Nestle to discontinue a range of KitKat bars covered by wrappers with Hindu gods on them.

The Office for National Statistics' monthly report found there were 2,856 Covid deaths registered in England and Wales last month, down 18.1 per cent from the 3,487 the previous month.

The sickening biographies of over 200 SS women serving at Auschwitz death camp and their 'after work parties' have been published in an effort to show the world that it wasn't just men involved.

A judge has demanded authorities explain publicly how two gang members, one with 48 previous offences, were granted £145,000 in fraudulent Covid bounce back loans.

Bishop, who was being held at HMP Frankland, in County Durham, passed away in hospital last night. Reacting to his death, Nicola's mother Michelle Johnson branded him an 'evil wicked monster'.

Hard-living and hard-rocking, Meat Loaf sold more than 100 million albums over a career that spanned six decades, including the 1977 smash hit Bat Out Of Hell.

Backbenchers pushing for the Prime Minister to be replaced amid Partygate chaos claim to have taped party enforcers attempting to bully MPs, as well as having copies of text messages.

The Scottish mother of Grand Slam champions Andy and Jamie has signed up to website Cameo, which provides personalised messages from celebrities for a fee.

Chinese experts have found wearing masks on a flight cuts the chances of spreading Covid using a computer simulation and testing it against real word flights where passengers caught the virus.

Pamela Anderson and fifth husband Dan Hayhurst have called it quits after just 13 months of marriage according to reports.    

Motorists have been warned of possible travel chaos as the mercury falls as low as -7C, bringing with it 'severe frost' and icy conditions across large parts of England and Wales.

Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi (pictured) saying he will personally vet any plans to bring back masks in classrooms is an example of Whitehall seeking to 'micromanage' schools, teachers said.

The £6million Marble Arch Mound, nicknamed 'S**t Hill', is being dismantled after it was branded the 'capital's worst tourist attraction' and a 'waste of money' following six months of mockery.

Figures released by Parliament reveal the crumbling state of the historic building, with reports of large chunks of stonework crashing down on 15 occasions in the last three years.

The Bat Out Of Hell star alleged the Duke of York had tried pushing him into a moat while the pair were filming for the one-off charity event It's a Royal Knockout at Alton Towers, Staffordshire, in 1987.

Schools across England are in open rebellion against the Government over masks as more than 100 head teachers have written to parents warning that children must continue wearing face coverings.

Rollo Gabb, head of South African vineyard Journey's End, drew the ire of neighbour Meghdad Farrokhzad floor over the curtains in his 'high class' Kensington flat.

Nicole Iwalowo (pictured), 21, was fired from the branch in Romford, east London, after her footage went viral on TikTok.

Emma Martin, a 40-year-old dinner lady from Hartlepool, Durham, was shocked to find energy giant EDF had charged her £336,865 for one month's electricity bill.

Doctors discovered a married father-of-three from Kosovo had a uterus, cervix, fallopian tube, as well as an ovary attached to his testicle when performing routine hernia operation.

CCTV footage of the unidentified person has been shared by officers in Stroud in Gloucestershire. Gloucestershire Police said the man has been ringing the doorbell at least three times a month.

A study has found that post-menopausal women who walk fast are much less likely to develop heart failure - a condition where the heart can no longer successfully pump blood around the body.

At least 27 people underwent the controversial anal swab tests at an apartment building in Beijing where a 26-year-old woman had contracted Omicron.

Greg Simpson, 36, an army reservist who toured Afghanistan as a member of the London Regiment, was said to have been part of a four-strong gang who stole 5.8 billion Indonesian Rupiahs (£300,000).

According to Emma Pinchbeck, chief executive of Energy UK, the trade body for suppliers, households could see at least another 20 per cent climb in energy bills.

Four officials, including the head of Belarus's air navigation service and his deputy, have been charged in the US with piracy over the hijack of a Ryanair flight in May last year.

Avon and Somerset Police said they clocked the £85,000 BMW i8 'supercar' travelling at 142mph on the M5 in Somerset on Thursday, January 20, before stopping the vehicle near to Bristol.

Brian Harwood (pictured), 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.

Eshe Symonds, 31, from Tipton in the West Midlands, who has a seven-year-old daughter called Shaya passed away on January 13.

Cyril Evans (pictured), who manned the telegraph equipment on the SS Californian, could not have saved the victims of the sinking, according to expert Parks Stephenson.

French actor Gaspard Ulliel died aged 37 in a skiing accident earlier this week when he collided without a helmet with another skier in the Savoie, who gave testimony today.

Malik Faisal Akram, 44, had also been investigated by MI5 in 2020. However the father-of-six, who was shot dead by FBI SWAT teams while holding up a Texas synagogue, was not considered a threat.

After his decision to join Sir Keir Starmer's Labour, Bury South MP Christian Wakeford has tried to insist he will carry on representing the constituency without going back to the voters.

The controversial new document will become compulsory for those who want to visit cafes, restaurants and a range of other businesses in France from next week.

Almost a week after Novak Djokovic was kicked out of Australia, his coach Marian Vajda has spoken of the 'huge suffering' the player endured during the saga.

Luke Whitehouse and Lachlan Mantell were stunned when they were told that they could not buy the three-bedroom home as the Christian owners didn't want to sell to 'two men in a partnership.'

Whitehall sources said the PM had torn up his diary to talk with wobbling MPs before the expected publication next week of the inquiry into the 'Partygate' row by ethics chief Sue Gray.

A San Francisco Main Library security guard was attacked by a dog as he tried to administer Narcan to its unresponsive owner on Sunday as crime and overdose deaths in the city continue to surge.

Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, declared bankruptcy during a High Court libel case brought against him by Syrian schoolboy Jamal Hijazi.

The grandmother, 88, has become the first patient in the country to benefit from the fitting of the 'groundbreaking' device at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London as part of a Europe-wide trial.

Sales volumes were down sharply in the crucial festive period, with the 'Plan B' work from home order coming into force and consumers not fuelling up cars as much.

Charlotte Briggs said on Thursday that she was left in tears by Andrew's foul-mouth rants, and on one occasion faced his wrath over a tiny gap in his curtains. Pictured: Prince Andrew in 1996.

Lady Neville-Rolfe, who has previously described motorised scooters as fuelling 'a Wild West of lawlessness', said they should either be banned or strictly regulated.

The World Heart Federation says studies suggesting that wine can be good for us are 'observational' - meaning they fail to take into account important factors.

As recently as December 23, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) warned that, based on modelling, hospitalisations could peak at between 3,000 and 10,000 a day.

It had been claimed that Ms Davison was one of the ringleaders of a move by rebel Red Wall Conservative MPs to force a vote of no confidence in Mr Johnson over the Partygate row.

Large banks, advertising firms and insurers announced plans to return to the office after two years of Covid disruption although most said flexible working arrangements would remain in place.

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will accuse Russia of failing to 'learn the lessons of history' and predict an invasion of Ukraine 'will only lead to a terrible quagmire and loss of life'.

A year-long review ordered by ministers will begin today to consider curbs on the bombardment of passengers with announcements such as 'See it. Say it. Sorted'.

Government dashboard data shows another 107,364 people tested positive across the UK in the past 24 hours, down only slightly on the 109,133 last week.

US researchers found nearly three quarters of children with the allergy given immunotherapy avoided a reaction when given the equivalent of 16 peanuts after two-and-a-half years.

Alp Mehmet, chairman of Migration Watch UK, which campaigns for tougher border controls, said the decision was a 'cowardly act', adding that the British people 'deserve better' from Priti Patel.

While major banking firms said they would be 'fully' re-opening their offices, the likes of HSBC and JP Morgan said they would be maintaining their 'flexible' working arrangements.

Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show just a third of black-Caribbean Britons had received a third Covid vaccine in England by New Year's Eve, the latest date data is available for.

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World no.1 Ash Barty has stormed her way into the quarter-finals at the Australian Open.

Analysis of data from London Fire Brigade showed firefighters had slowed response times 3,035 times last year and a fifth of fire engine delays happened because of traffic calming measures.

Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab (pictured) has warned of 'there will be very serious, severe economic consequences' if Russia invades Ukraine as troops continue to amass on the border.

Researchers discovered many see their careers derailed - or even ended - just as they reach the peak of their working life due to absences caused by debilitating menopausal symptoms.

Radio 4's Any Questions presenter Chris Mason, 41, has joined Laura Kuenssberg's deputy Vicki Young in saying publicly that he did not want to be in the running for the BBC political editor role.

Samantha Rowe's eight-year nightmare began in 2014 when she gave birth to her son Cooper, who was born on Valentines Day at just 21 weeks - too early to survive outside the womb.

Aussie tennis stars Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis are through to the quarter finals in the men's doubles at Australian Open after an epic three set thriller. 

EXCLUSIVE: Maryia Hussain, 26, from Luton, first tested positive for the virus in December 2020, then again in November last year and then a third time last Monday.

Police officers have launched a murder investigation after they were called to Thirlmere Avenue, in Stretford, shortly before 7pm last night to reports of a boy with serious injuries.

Nusrat Ghani, 49, alleges she was told she was being axed as a transport minister because her status as a Muslim woman and a minister was 'making colleagues feel uncomfortable'.

Australian cricket star Mitch Marsh said WA Premier Mark McGowan's decision to extend the state's hard borders is 'gut-wrenching' and revealed he hasn't been home in six months.

The videos, uncovered on Periscope, Alexander - a prominent figure in the House of Representatives' panel investigating the riot - saying he'd talk to the two groups about providing security.

Notorious assassin Siar Munshizada, serving three life sentences for murder, was allegedly conned out of $15,000 by Helya Yousefi, a woman he met in jail while she was visiting another prisoner.  

The Queen has stayed in the cottage, Wood Farm, before, but it will be the first time since Philip died and thus very fitting that she should return now. When he retired, it was the place he called home.

Queensland has recorded 11,947 new Covid cases and another 10 deaths as authorities reveal virus-related hospitalisations are expected to be even greater than the figures being reported.

The couple first went public with their affair in November in an explosive announcement that ended his marriage to lawyer Ellie, and his new girlfriend's marriage to Christopher Nasser.

Ranpati Amarasinghe, 24, was arrested by Australian Federal Police at his home in Melbourne in September 2020 after spending two years tricking underage girls into sending nude photos.

Senior Cabinet Office official Sue Gray has received evidence that Josh Grimstone and Henry Newman went to Carrie's flat several times during lockdown. (Pictured, Mr Newman with Carrie.)

People who drink more than five glasses of red wine a week had a 17 per cent lower risk of catching Covid-19, according to new research at China's Shenzhen Kangning Hospital.

Senior officials are understood to want the Duchess of Cambridge to take on the honorary role after the Duke of York was stripped of his remaining military and charitable affiliations.

Now staff at the University of Northampton have issued a trigger warning for Orwell's novel on the grounds that it contains 'explicit material' which some students may find 'offensive and upsetting'.

Paul Page has claimed he personally made three separate complaints to Buckingham Palace officials during the time worked in the Royal Protection Command from 1998 until 2004.

Sydney's controversial lockout laws did little else than deferring assault incidents into surrounding areas and killed famous establishments in the city's most popular areas, a new report has found.

An MP claims a $26 million contract paper-trail proves the federal government 'commandeered' rapid antigen tests intended for Queensland Rail workers but Health Minister Greg Hunt said this is false.

President Joe Biden met with his national security team at Camp David on Saturday to discuss 'continued Russian aggressive actions toward Ukraine,' the White House said in a statement.

The One Nation leader called for a Royal Commission into governments' handling of the Covid pandemic, sparking an explosive response from a Queensland minister.

Slain NYPD rookie Jason Rivera, who was shot to death on-duty Friday night, told high school freshmen 'to put in the work' to make it in life in an inspirational video filmed when he graduated in 2017.

Curtis Keith Bankston, 55, and his wife Sophia Simm-Bankston, 56, were arrested for false imprisonment after eight disabled people were found behind a deadbolted door in their home.

Former President Donald Trump reappeared during Saturday Night Live's cold open played by impressionist James Austin Johnson. Trump went on a rambling rant using the Wordle game.

Footage has emerged of security guards and police demanding an Australian Open spectator to remove her shirt which featured a slogan expressing welfare concerns for Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai.

Paul Vernon Hoeffer, 60, admitted to the charges in federal court in Fort Pierce on Friday, confessing to threatening House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Transgender University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, 22, won two of her races against Harvard University on Saturday although her win's were by narrower margins than of late.

Local leaders and organizations gathered for a prayer vigil on Saturday evening after an NYPD officer was killed and another was critically injured in Friday shooting.

The Oscar and Emmy-winner was was joined by her son and a man named Brandon, whom she called her 'bonus son,' in a virtual appearance on Cooper and Cohen's New Year's Eve show.

Convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, 60, is learning Russian for 'her sanity' while in solitary confinement at New York's Metropolitan Detention Centre.

The Crystal Symphony, which was scheduled to return to Miami on Saturday to end a 14-day Caribbean cruise, instead veered off to Bimini in the Bahamas, where it docked on Saturday night.

Popular barbecue brand Weber has apologised after sending email subscribers a meatloaf recipe just hours after musician Meat Loaf died following a battle with Covid-19.

Bill Maher is pushing back against those who are blindly following the COVID guidance of Dr. Fauci and other doctors, saying 'don't sit there in your white coat and tell me "just do what we say."'

The order comes after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met in Geneva on Friday for crunch talks over the Ukraine crisis.

Andrew Johnson's photo as a clean-cut boy shooting up heroin in a filthy drug-infested lane shamed Sydney into action, but sparked a lifelong addiction which endures today.

The magazine Lashawn McNeil, 47, used allowed his gun to carry 40 extra bullets to the Glock's usual 10 when he fatally shot Jason Rivera, 22 and injured Wilbert Mora, 27.

Tennis boss Craig Tiley has claimed Novak Djokovic will return to the Melbourne courts in 2023 despite being banned from the country for three years and given a stern warning from the Victorian Premier.

WA Health Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson made the surprising admission at a press conference on Sunday, as 24 cases were recorded - the largest daily leap ever recorded in the state.

Two bodies have been found after a suspicious house fire west of Brisbane early on Sunday morning. Police have established a crime scene to investigate the cause of the suspicious blaze.

Dr Sarah Bendall, author of a new book Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern England, says corsets not as restrictive as people think.

Food delivery driver Ujwal Shrestha, 25, was arrested on Friday after he was linked to two random late-night attacks in Sydney's north shore years apart.

Gascon's comments come after Governor Gavin Newsom visited a ravaged rail depot in the Lincoln Heights area of the city Thursday (right), saying it looked like a third-world country.

Australian politicians long ago weaponised quick-wit and smart mouths to one-up opposition. From Paul Keating to unfortunate Midnight Oil dances, Aussie politics throw the verbal punches like no other.

Australian tourists could be banned from travelling to Europe or face tough new entry requirements as the EU declares Down Under a 'Covid danger zone' amid surging Omicron cases.

Throughout the pandemic Qantas had the comfort of knowing it was recognised as the safest airline in the world. But not anymore. It has had a sharp drop in an annual safest airline list.

Premier Dominic Perrottet made the announcement at a press conference on Sunday morning, and confirmed that teachers and pupils will be given two free rapid antigen tests every week.

Jacinda Ardern has announced she will delay her own wedding after putting all of New Zealand on Covid Red Alert.

Jacinda Ardern has placed the whole of New Zealand under the highest Covid alert setting after just 84 new cases in the country.

NSW has recorded 20,324 new Covid-19 cases, 2,712 hospitalisations and 34 deaths, while Victoria saw 13,091 positive test results and 14 deaths.

Mask wearing and restrictions on singing and dancing in hospitality venues, entertainment facilities and major recreation facilities in NSW were due to be lifted on January 27.

Like more than one million other Uighurs, Gulbahar Haitiwaji was imprisoned in a Chinese 're-education' camp in Xinjiang. She survived three years but feared she would never see her family again.

The Nasdaq has posted its worst week since the start of the pandemic, wiping billions from the wealth of tech billionaires, and Bitcoin is down nearly half from its peak level.

Boris Johnson is reportedly considering delaying bringing in the mandatory jab rule for NHS workers by another six months in a bid to prevent another Tory revolt

Several of Vice President Kamala Harris's aides were forced to abandon her trip to California and Wisconsin on Saturday after a member of the advance team tested positive for COVID-19.

Ekaterina Pereverzeva (pictured), 27, is struggling to stop fears of war tormenting her as vast numbers of Russian forces mass across the border near her home in Ukraine's second city.

Scott Quiner, 55, of Buffalo, Minnesota, has died of COVID-19, almost a week after he was transferred to a Texas hospital after his wife won a restraining order to keep him on life support.

A source claimed Adele's shows were destined for trouble due to behind-the-scenes clashes between the 33-year-old superstar and acclaimed set designer Esmeralda Devlin.

Almost two dozen MPs were on a five-star junket to Qatar in the same week that women's rights activist Noof al-Maadeed mysteriously vanished, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

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The video, which has been viewed more than 4,600 times, shows the position on a beach in Cornwall where the 3,000-mile-long 'Grace Hopper' cable comes ashore and begins its route inland.

Inspectors at HMP Downview in South London said that a 'large proportion' of the 210 female inmates were 'overweight', with many gaining weight over lockdown.

Although the UK's mortality rate has dropped massively as more of the population has been vaccinated, some anti-vaxx nurses maintain the life-saving vaccine is an 'experimental drug'.

Katie Price was arrested on suspicion of breaching her restraining order after allegedly branded her ex-husband Kieran Hayler's fiancee a 'gutter slag' in 'abusive messages'.

As Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky warned of a 'large-scale war', Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said that Yevhen Murayev was being lined up to run the country as a satellite of Moscow.

A team of cave explorers survived being trapped in massive water-filled cavern systems underneath the Australian desert after a huge storm caused the cave entrance to collapse in an avalanche.

Nusrat Ghani, the Tory MP for Wealden in East Sussex, was sacked as transport minister in February 2020 as part of a mini-cabinet reshuffle.

Zara Rutherford has spent the last five months flying solo around the world with her 5ft 3 inch frame propped up on a cushion so she can see out of the cockpit of her ultra-light aircraft, Sharky.

Premier Daniel Andrews and Minister for Education James Merlino announced on Sunday that pupils and teachers are encouraged to take a test twice a week for the first four weeks of Term 1.

Dr Matthew Willson, 31, was killed by a shot fired less than 100 yards away in Atlanta on Sunday morning - moments after being woken by the sound of 'rapid gunfire' as he slept alongside his partner.

In a letter to tutors, undergraduates on Oxford's famous PPE degree said the move to in-person exams leaves many with 'minimal time' to 'completely rewrite their notes before finals'.

The World Heart Federation last week published a pamphlet on the dangers of drinking, but has been accused of misrepresenting a 2018 study published by The Lancet.

Andrew Percy, MP for Brigg and Goole, is calling for a 'Freedom Bill' to repay people who found themselves on the wrong side of the rules for anything other than 'egregious' offences.

Shaun Pinner is one of at least ten UK nationals who have travelled to Ukraine's wartorn eastern region, known as the Donbas, to take on pro-Moscow separatists.

The Duke of Sussex, who lives in California and pays for a private security team, is seeking a Judicial Review against the Home Office, questioning a decision to remove his protection in the UK.

Phones 4U billionaire founder John Caudwell revealed his son Rufus had 24/7 surveillance in his bedroom to ensure he wouldn't commit suicide after catching Lyme disease in 2014.