Russia has invaded Ukraine, health secretary Sajid Javid declared this morning, after Russian troops, tanks and trucks were seen rolling into breakaway regions in the country's east overnight.

The public finances were £2.9billion in surplus in January, traditionally a bumper month for the Treasury as cash rolls in from self-assessment tax returns.

The Government website ran out last night with packs still unavailable online and via the 119 phone line this morning after Boris Johnson said they would be phased out in six weeks.

As Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered forces into separatist regions of eastern Ukraine, the FTSE 100 benchmark index of Britain's leading companies dropped in London.

IAN BIRRELL: Vladimir Putin's aim is simple: To prevent democracy from infecting his own blighted citizens and leading them to challenge his corrupt regime, one that has failed them so badly.

The star, who returned to the court in Dubai last night, told the corporation's media editor Amol Rajan last week he will refuse to play at future Grand Slams if it means he has to take a Covid vaccine.

Ewen Sergison, 46, pictured with his partner Rachel Lovett, 30, beside a damaged Mini Marcos at their home in Darlton, Nottinghamshire.

Kate Garraway has revealed that her husband Derek Draper flew to Mexico for cutting-edge medical treatment at a specialist clinic.

Ms Truss tweeted about the new sanctions on Monday evening after Putin recognised Donetsk and Luhansk in eastern Ukraine as breakaway republics.

DAN WOOTTON: The biggest danger now is those folk in the media and politics who should know better continuing to propagate the myth that we remain in the midst of a dangerous pandemic

Around one in seven women going through the menopause in England are believed to be on HRT, which can help to relieve symptoms such as hot flushes, night sweats and depression.

Social media is awash with excitement as February 22, 2022 approaches for people across the world, the date all numbers will line up to give the 2.22.22 date.

The challenge was shared on US-based trivia platform Quizly. Players are tasked with selecting the correct answer to 22 tricky multiple-choice questions. So, can you achieve a perfect score?

Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance painted a grim picture of the ongoing threat after Boris Johnson declared that England is ditching all legal restrictions and free tests.

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Named storms are part of the modern self-aggrandisement culture, along with the meaningless traffic light anti-terror alerts beloved of the Home Office.

Mental health support worker Siobhan Redfern, 24, returned home from a 13-hour shift to find soil and roots dumped outside her front door in Maidstone, Kent, on Wednesday, February 16.

Neighbours had complained of a 'horrific stench' coming from the property in Peckham for nearly three years before police finally forced entry and found a body inside on Friday.

The plans are being considered by the European Council and could get the green light today, brining an end to the confusing system of individual rules for each member state.

Researchers from Aahaus University in Denmark questioned 10,000 people across 21 countries about their opinions on those who have refused to get vaccinated against Covid-19.

Henry Cook, a close ally of Carrie Johnson, has worked in Government for more than ten years and will leave his role at No10 where he most recently worked on the pandemic response.

One video, released by the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) in eastern Ukraine, appeared to show a man pretending his leg had been blown off by a Ukrainian artillery strike.

Average petrol prices were yesterday less than a penny away from reaching the grim milestone of £1.50 a litre. Industry figures showed the fuel hit a record 149.12p a litre on Sunday.

DR MARTIN SCURR: Atheroma can lead to a heart attack or stroke, both caused when the arteries feeding these areas are blocked by fatty deposits or a blood clot.

The hedgehog population in urban areas is stabilising around the 170,000 to 200,000 mark, experts found after countryside populations have been falling consistently.

The 3.2 intensity tremor was recorded around 11pm yesterday some three miles north west of Birmingham. Several residents reported being woken by the earthquake.

FRANK FUREDI: With the worst of the pandemic behind us and the vast majority of adults triple-jabbed for Covid, our universities ought to be thriving hubs of life and education once more.

The Champions League final is due to take place at the Gazprom Arena in St Petersburg but UEFA are said to be closely monitoring the situation in Ukraine with a view to a contingency plan.

A snowdrop bulb has sold for a record £1,850 in an eBay auction to an unnamed collector. The Galanthus plicatus Golden Tears bulb was created by so-called King of the Snowdrops Joe Sharman

Royal Mail postman and father-of-two Mark Brough, 49, says he is often attacked by the feisty pheasant while making his deliveries in the Staffordshire village of Cheddleton.

The ladies' and gents' lavatories have been merged at The Playhouse Theatre in London where Redmayne is starring with Jessie Buckley in Cabaret, for which tickets can cost up to £250.

A nine-year-old girl attending her grandmother's 75th birthday drowned after her hair got tangled in the pool drain at a club in the west-central Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul.

Stephen Matthews, 68, died after debris struck the van that he was a passenger in. Police rushed to the scene in Netherton, Merseyside, last Friday but he was pronounced dead.

An investigation has revealed the utility companies slapped with the biggest fines for delayed roadwork projects since 2019, with Thames Water paying out £204,900.

Devon and Cornwall Police were called to a low-speed collision on Bailey Terrace in Bridgerule, Devon at 1:27pm on February 11.

The Queen continued duties as head of state despite Covid as she sent a message of condolence to the Brazilian president after 170 people died in the city of Petropolis due to flooding

Logan's mother, Angharad Williamson, 30, her partner, John Cole, 39, and a 14-year-old boy are charged with killing Logan Mwangi between July 28 and August 1.

Firearms officer Jonathan Bell took wooden posts, usually used during training, from Dorset Police's firing range and used them to create garden furniture at his home, a panel heard.

The mysterious deaths happened earlier this month near the villages of Waterston and Hazelbeach, Pembrokeshire, and close to the Dragon LNG gas refinery.

The 51-year-old man, named only as Luther, was dragged underwater and eaten by the crocodile as he bathed in the Bebatu river in Indonesia.

Leoaai Elghareeb, 37, targeted Sainsbury's Local, Tesco Express and Little Waitrose on Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith, in August last year.

Kim Armstrong, 63 claims Faye Mallon, 26, and Lydia Henshall, 27, both pictured, are 'naughty disrespectful girls' and did not think he was at fault after admitting harassment to a Stockport court.

High profile hotelier Sir Rocco Forte said he was with-holding his money and demanded a 'change of tack' that included tax cuts.

Angel, 20, was left paralysed after plunging from a van that she had been bundled into after being grabbed off the street in Leicestershire, in September 2020.

Boris Johnson is poised to unveil his 'living with' Covid strategy today, which is expected to end free lateral flow and PCR tests from April. But some groups will still receive the swabs.

Professor Robert West claimed it was 'irresponsible' to drop the last Covid rules when so many people were still infected. He said they risked 80,000 Covid deaths a year.

Government figures show infections are falling in nine out of 10 of the country's nearly 7,000 areas, with some parts seeing week-on-week drops of 88 per cent.

The Prime Minister is expected to unveil the blueprint for his 'living with Covid' plan in the Commons this afternoon.

Today, a minister confirmed it would be down to businesses themselves to decide the best way forward, including whether staff should stay at home if they test positive.

Graham Wildin had claimed the costs for his £200,000 pad in Gloucestershire - which boasts a bowling alley, cinema, squash courts, private casino and bar - were tax deductible.

The Government has started secretly rationing free Coronavirus home testing kits amid fears of a rush ahead of them being phased out.

The funnyman, 60, appeared on Good Morning Britain on Monday, where he discussed the recent furore surrounding Jimmy's His Dark Material's gig.

James Andrew Gibbs Jones, 28, of Abertillery, South Wales, continued to drum out beats day and night after his neighbours had complained to the council about the loud noise.

Transport for London has agreed with the Government to extend its existing funding package - but only until this Friday.

Michael Fuchs, a German-born 62-year-old who moved to the US in the 1990s, and French former journalist Alvina Collardeau-Fuchs, 46, are fighting over money at the High Court in London.

Her Majesty will be 'carefully monitored' this week with staff taking a 'sensible' approach after Buckingham Palace yesterday said she had tested positive for coronavirus.

The services sector has driven a surge in February, with the flash PMI reading from IHS Markit/CIPS coming in at 60.2. Anything above 50 represents growth.

Maureen Smethurst, a retired schoolteacher, was left 'close to tears' after receiving a blunt letter from Greenhill Community Trust telling her to vacate her cabin in Weymouth, Dorset.

Christion Wright, 28, from Southwark, dragged a woman into St James's Park at around midnight. He was caught after financial analysis linked him to the Santander hire bike he was using.

Alcyoneus, which is 3 billion light-years away from Earth, may help shed light on how radio galaxies form and why they are so big, according to experts led by Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands.

Jayden-Lee Lucas, three, and Gracie-Ann Wheaton, four, from Tredegar, south Wales, were returning from a birthday party at around 1.45pm on February 5 when the car they were in collided with a van.

Royal Navy officer William Smith was convicted at Bulford Military Court for dragging a chef by her wrists to the bar of HMS Diamond when she refused to do shots after England's semi-final win.

Terry Walker, a rat catcher who rose to prominence after catching the UK's biggest rodent in 2018, has warned fortnightly bin collections in Dorset are fuelling a rise in 'mega rats'.

Leigh Best (pictured), 52, was working at the upmarket Embark on Raw in Billericay, Essex, when owner David Fletcher made the 'tactless' and 'derogatory' comment.

Anthony Robertson, 41, from North Tyneside, was jailed after he pretended to be customers and filled out a fraudulent compensation form before sending £365,000 to bank 43 different bank accounts.

Westminster Council handed out over 1.4 million tickets between the 2016 and 2021 period - more than three times as many penalty notices as Cardiff.

Former Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Tweedy lost a long-standing test case against the taxman after a judge found her personal company culpable of 'straightforward profit extraction'.

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Notorious, heavily tattooed bikie Dayne Brajkovich has been kicked out of the Hells Angels in Western Australia, the club where he is sergeant-at-arms, after a fight with other gang members.

Aristocrat pop star Bo Bruce, 37, had been locked in a bitter court battle with her 40-year-old brother Thomas, Viscount Savernake, over their late mother's £2million Wiltshire estate.

The inmate - who goes under the name HMP Unknown - has amassed more than a million views since his first post on Friday, also raking in 6,000 followers and 46,000 likes.

After chairing a pre-dawn Cobra meeting, the PM said Mr Putin has 'completely torn up international law' after recognising separatist areas and must now face an 'immediate' response.

Shell said the movement of large amounts of money in and out of the market meant prices were less linked to actual supply and demand.

An alligator has escaped his pen by swimming over a boundary fence as an entire month's worth of rain was dumped across Sydney in two hours. 

Nicola Sturgeon will today unveil her pandemic exit plan for Scotland amid a furious row with Boris Johnson over his decision to scrap free coronavirus tests.

Parkour athlete Leonardo Roof, 23, boldly hurtles off the bridge in Sete, France. He lands on a boat full of shocked tourists. Mr Roof tells them he is doing a show and then does a backflip before coming off.

A suburb of Sydney has received a month's worth of rain in just two hours as torrential downpours cause chaos on the city's roads.

Juliana Da Silva Queiroz Murilo, 37, was in the passenger seat of cab driver husband Carlos' silver Honda when the tree collapsed on top of her amid gale force winds in Highgate on Friday.

John Yalu, 36, has been charged over the alleged murder of an Innisfail man who was found dead with a leg injury at Innisfail, North Queensland, on Saturday morning.

In a statement to MPs, the PM confirmed people with the virus will no longer be compelled to stay at home - although they will be advised to avoid spreading the disease in the same way as with flu.

A Queensland man has been charged with a string of offences after allegedly barreling over a police officer while speeding on an electric scooter.

Boris Johnson has been given the confidence to ease Covid measures by the continuing drop in cases, hospitalisations and deaths. It comes as he prepares to unveil the 'living with Covid' strategy.

Thursday's Powerball jackpot worth $120 million is the second largest prize pool ever in Australian history. The Lott have revealed the lucky numbers and locations players know.

A possum and her joey who 'illegally' crossed the border into Western Australia from Victoria need to be returned home soon - or the marsupials will be euthanised as they are a biosecurity risk.

Vladimir Putin has ordered his troops to enter Ukraine on a 'peacekeeping mission' after he officially recognised the country's eastern regions as independent states.

Australian tradesman have the luxury of putting their tools down and heading home if the wet weather looks set to stay.

Zoe Kestan, 28, a lingerie designer gave evidence at a federal courthouse in Joe Biden's home state of Delaware for several hours last Tuesday morning. Details of grand jury testimony remain secret.

Michael McCauley, from Victoria, has urged everyone to check their pockets for coins that have rare markings which could in turn earn them thousands.

A rundown weatherboard shack where Australia's most wanted fugitive Graham Potter was found hiding from police after 12 years on the run was strewn with rubbish and the roof rusted through.

People who opt to keep testing face spending £20 for a box of seven - around £3 per test, MailOnline understands.

Mayor LaToya Cantrell, 49, could be seen mugging unencumbered by a face covering on March 18 at the Mayor's Mardi Gras Ball violating of the Covid-19 protocol that she put into place on February 11

A Gold Coast townhouse has outraged Reddit users after the house was sold for $250,000 more than it was less than two years ago.

Mark McGowan was due to appear at the Federal Court in NSW from February 26 to 28 to give evidence in his defamation case with billionaire Clive Palmer.

A team of Queensland scientists were stunned when they witnessed a number of magpies use 'problem solving' skills in the wild to remove GPS trackers from five other magpies.

'I am not this monster that everybody has created,' Simon Heyada Hayut, 31, from Israel, told Inside Edition in an exclusive two-part interview aired on Monday.

A concerned Perth cyclist has shared the 'safety' feature that caused him a nasty crash. Richard Khoe shared a photo of two bollards he believed cyclists were to ride between.

Northern Territorians are set to be freed from mask mandates as case numbers shrink and the territory records its 16th death to the disease since the pandemic began.

Millions of Australians are eligible for a free $50 Stay and Rediscover voucher to spend on accommodation in hotels, camping grounds and caravan parks in a bid to boost the tourism industry and the economy.

The firing of the laser from a Chinese warship was condemned by Prime Minister Scott Morrison as a reckless act by 'what is supposed to be a professional defence force'.

With just three months to go before the May election, the former marketing guru PM has been packing in the photo opportunities while touring marginal seats around the nation.

Ben Fordham said Lidia Thorpe is the 'most toxic politician in Canberra' and 'doesn't belong' in parliament after the Greens MP smashed Scott Morrison's Stolen Generations speech.

A TikTok user has filmed an animal scurrying through a suburban Melbourne street that looks similar to the long extinct Tasmanian tiger, though viewers of the video thought it was a fox.

The lavish mansion known as 'Ganeden' sits on a 2400sqm block of land that once hosted three houses in Vaucluse, in Sydney's ritzy eastern suburbs. The property recently sold for a jaw-dropping amount.

Exclusive photos of Tinder Swindler Shimon Heyada Hayut, aka Simon Leviev, show him dressed head-to-toe in luxury designer gear as he toured a Ferrari car showroom.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was accused on Monday of withholding vital swathes of its data on COVID-19. The CDC said it was to prevent misinterpretation.

Australia is again being belted with extreme weather from east to west, with Sydney and south-east Queensland warned over damaging storms and heavy rain all this week.

Mayor Eric Adams announced on Friday an ambitious plan to improve New York City's subway, pledging to remove more than 1,000 homeless people who shelter there on a daily basis.

Csaba Vizi was arrested by police in Ottawa as part of the truckers' protest, and on Monday night told of his shock at surrendering peacefully and being beaten by officers.

Minyon Moore, 63, a Black Lives Matter board member and critical race theory promoter will help President Biden pick the first black woman to the Supreme Court. Her ideas are out of the mainstream

José Bryan Salgueiro Zepeda, a member of the Sinaloa Cartel and high-ranking leader of the "Los Salgueiro" faction, was taken into custody during a baptism ceremony in Sinaloa on Friday.

Kyle Rittenhouse has said he intends to take legal action against media outlets and 'celebrities, politicians and athletes' that have called him a 'murderer' including Whoopi Goldberg.

Tonga went offline after last month's volcanic eruption caused multiple faults and breaks in the vital communications cable that connects the pacific nation to the international network.

The baseless claims target almost every facet of the New Zealand power couple's life - including their relationship - and are being circulated by thousands of social media users.

The ALP is on 49 per cent and the Coalition is on 45 per cent while six per cent of voters are undecided, according to an Essential poll of 1,000 people for Guardian Australia .

Masks will no longer be needed in most Victorian indoor settings, the Victorian state government has announced, from Friday 25 February.

Petra Shasha, 26, from Canberra was charged with using a carriage service to transmit indecent material and committing an act of indecency on the 15-year-old boy.

NSW Labor opposition leader has apologised after calling for mandarin lessons to be taught in schools and has defended his Chinese Communist Party sponsored trip to China.

Piers Morgan joined his new boss Lachlan Murdoch for the flight to Australia and was spotted first off the jet ahead of starting his new show on Fox Nation.

Police have asked for help identifying the man who viciously attacked two cats while walking his dog on Belloza Way in Mernda, Melbourne, around 4.50pm last Wednesday.

The Prime Minister has thrown his support behind Liberal senator Claire Chandler's proposed law to prevent women's clubs from being sued for excluding a trans player.

Australian officials have been told to evacuate Ukraine immediately as tensions increase between Russian and NATO forces and war appears imminent.

Westpac, one of Australia's big four banks, is predicting that property prices have already peaked and will flatline by May. It explained why prices were likely to fall sooner than expected.

Former President Trump has told confidants that his two Scottish golf courses and his Los Angeles property are part of talks to host the controversial Saudi golf league.

Constable Zachary Rolfe is accused of murder after shooting Aboriginal teenager Kumanjayi Walker during a failed arrest attempt in the Northern Territory on November 9, 2019.

Trains will run freely across Sydney's rail network as early as tomorrow after all services were cancelled in crippling outage on Monday.

A former SAS soldier testified Ben Roberts-Smith told troops to shoot Afghan prisoners in a mock execution during a training simulation in Perth.

Readers of a conservative website say tourists should resist visiting Australia to punish the government for its Covid lockdowns and restrictions.

Bennet Schwartz, 34, was facing charges over the importation of 27kg of cocaine when he was found dead at Silverwater's Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre on Saturday.

Several vehicles have collided after a crash on a Melbourne motorway, leaving one person trapped and causing major traffic delays.

New York State Police released a photo of the car that the alleged murderer Michael J. Snow, 31, drove to College Park Road in Pottsdam where the lifeless body of Elizabeth Howell, 21, was found.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has warned an escalation of hostilities between Russia and Ukraine could result in higher energy costs and significantly hit the global economic recovery.

A cruel and callous father who executed his own daughter and her husband has been sentenced to a double life term of imprisonment. 

Richard Pusey has asked a magistrate to refer to him as 'them/they' in another bizarre court appearance which saw him again berate police. 

A Queensland man who collapsed after going for a run with his wife and died three days later appears to be Australia's second case of a frightening disease associated with vapes and e-cigarettes.

Environmental activists vowed to block Sydney's major roads 'consistently and non-violently, week after week until the government meets our reasonable demands'.

Australia's most wanted man, Graham Potter, was hiding out in a squalid house at Ravenshoe, far north Queensland. Police vision of his arrest revealed the shocking state of the property.

This weekend will feature rival conferences that demonstrate the warring factions of the Republican Party.

Miss Alabama Zoe Sozo Bethel, 27, a deeply religious conservative commentator, died Friday of head injuries from a mysterious accident, her family announced on social media.

Covid lockdowns have caused a ridiculous surge in house prices from the big cities to regional coastal areas. Now there are fears of social unrest as rents surge, and fuel prices hit record highs.

Detectives believe Australia's most wanted fugitive, Graham Potter, was using an alias when police swooped on a rundown hide-out in far north Queensland on Monday.

Justin Berry, a 14-year veteran of the Austin police department, was among 19 officers indicted last week for excessive force during the George Floyd protests.

LA DA Gascon admitted that child molester Hannah Tubbs, 26, should have been prosecuted as an adult and should have received a harsher sentence than two years in a juvenile facility.

Former Vice President Mike Pence's counterterrorism advisor Olivia Troye and ex-Homeland Security chief of staff Myles Taylor say they experienced Havana Symptom syndromes

The aim of the proposed $5,000 bonus is to address the 'significant' gap in retirement savings between Australian men and women as they approach retirement.

Sydneysider Pixie Shmigel and her partner decided to leave Australia for Kiev six months ago to start a new life, but they have spent the past three weeks in Montenegro as fears of a Russian invasion grow.

The bear has spent months scaring residents in South Lake Tahoe, California, while breaking into homes for food such as pizza and gorging in bins for leftovers.

Qantas boss Alan Joyce said Australia's east and west states could finally operate as one country when WA Premier Mark McGowan finally opens the border on March 3.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: The virus is still with us, and must be kept under close surveillance. But from now on, we must live with it, rather than being in its thrall.

Toby Dune, 14, is suing Woolworths group $252,005.10 for a gruesome injury he gained while shopping at a Mackay Big W on Boxing Day in 2019. He claims he is still suffering.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced the end of masks and density limits in the state from 6pm, March 4 as the Omicron wave passes.

Victoria's County Court heard that Catherine Young, now aged 50, taught a victim how to perform sexual acts and committed multiple abuses (stock image).