UK health officials have found traces of a vaccine-derived version of the virus in sewage samples in parts of London and say it is 'likely' transmitting within the community.

MAILONLINE LIVEBLOG: Follow live updates here as the Rail, Maritime and Transport union go back on strike at Network Rail and 13 train operators across Britain today.

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: When I saw Arthur Scargill, 84, still wearing his signature Battle of Orgreave baseball cap, my previous life as a young industrial correspondent flashed before me.

Boris Johnson is in Kigali with wife Carrie for a Commonwealth meeting - and will be on tour abroad for the next week.

The costs of servicing the near-£2.4trillion debt mountain surged to £7.6billion, a record for the month.

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Princess Anne might have spluttered over her breakfast porridge at reports that brother Andrew was to spend more time in Scotland

The Justice Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister unveiled a long-awaited package of measures to replace Labour's Human Rights Act.

Ted Jennings, 38, the widow of Fern-Marie Choya, who died suddenly while pregnant with twins, can use an embryo created during fertility treatment to have a child using a surrogate.

Gretta Vedler, 23, was killed by her 'jealous' ex-boyfriend Dmitry Korovin, 23, who confessed to the crime in March, more than a year after strangling her to death in a Moscow hotel room

Alfie Best, who was born on the side of a road near Leicester, now lives in a £6m mansion in Surrey and is set to become the world's richest gypsy as his investment and business empire grows.

Nicole Schmidt, 41, also toyed nervously with a necklace as she sat with former husband Joseph Petito, 42.

BRIAN VINER: The evidence that links Elvis Presley's manager Colonel Tom Parker to Anna van den Enden's murder is circumstantial but compelling.

Speculation is continuing to grow  around Pope Francis and whether he may resign, after he was seen struggling to walk and sit down without assistance today (pictured).

Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall are to divorce after six years together, it was reported last night.

The 30-year-old was found in a distressed state last week and told police she had been kept in an Italian bed and breakfast for 48 hours and abused by him, before being dumped at an airport.

The NHS are launching a campaign to contain polio by contacting the parents of unvaccinated children after health chiefs declared a national incident last night following the return of the disease.

British couple Richard Brailey, 71, and wife Patricia, 66, had their dream holiday in Canada ended in a 'nightmare' when they were ordered off their plane by armed police with no explanation.

The pair are set to meet in the East African country's capital tomorrow for the first time since the Prince's displeasure at the controversial policy was reported.

ROBERT HARDMAN: The Princess Royal, now the proud patron of The Remembrance Trust, came to Brompton Cemetery in west London to inspect its latest work.

PETER HITCHENS: Human rights do not exist. They are an invention, made out of pure wind. You should not rely on these flatulent, vague phrases to help you if you want to remain free.

STEPHEN GLOVER: the Government has cocked it up again. That is the widespread response to the announcement that the state pension and benefits are set to rise in line with double-digit inflation

Festivalgoers have defied the national rail strikes crippling the UK's transport system and threats of camping in torrential rain to make it to Glastonbury's Worthy Farm for the first time since before Covid.

University students have become less tolerant in the past six years with one in ten wanting to ban the Conservative Party from campuses, a study has shown.

At Pokrovsk station in war-torn Donbas, hundreds of desperate faces tried to board trains to flee Vladimir Putin's brutal advance in the east of Ukraine.

The bulk of Warren Buffett's $93.4 billion estate could go to the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, which has spent millions of dollars supporting abortion rights groups.

Yi Chen, 37, was discovered by police and paramedics at the property in leafy Barnet, North London, yesterday afternoon. Her son, named as Duan Duan, also died from stab wounds.

The National Education Union (NEU) said pay cuts and high workload were hitting teacher recruitment and retention, causing 'real damage' to education.

DAN HODGES: The best thing that can be said about Sir Keir Starmer's PMQs performance was that at least he managed to turn up.

The problem is particularly acute in low and middle income countries, according to a team of economists led by Cambridge University.

A poll of 5,000 teenagers found more than half aged between 14 and 18 have been sent a nude image. A third of girls said they had first been asked to send a naked picture when they were aged 13 or younger.

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng will unveil new legislation ending the ban on using agency workers to break strikes, which has been in place for almost 50 years.

DAVID MELLOR: The industrial dispute that went a long way towards turning Labour into the force it is today involved a train operator and a trade union which counted among its members my grandfather.

Acting has been 'hijacked' by people from 'exceptionally privileged backgrounds', historian and author Lipika Palham claims, adding the A-listers are 'typically represented' by those at Eton School.

At a bruising PMQs, Boris Johnson accused the Labour leader of lacking the 'gumption' to condemn the industrial action crippling the country because unions funded his party.

Brian Temple, 34, was discharged from police custody for shoplifting before being accidentally recorded as a paedophile on a report - which his girlfriend says led to his suicide in 2017.

No officers were sacked despite 265 complaints over Rotherham sex abuse, report shows - despite failures including an officer telling the father of a victim that her ordeal would teach her a lesson

Charles, 73, and Camilla laid a wreath of white roses at the Kigali Genocide Memorial and met survivors and perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide on Wednesday.

The pair will hold talks in capital Kigali as they both attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.

Francis, who was knocked out by 'Iron' Mike during their contest back in 2000, was working as a bouncer outside BoxPark in Wembley when he left the man unconscious with a single punch on June 11.

Taxi driver Zola Tongo, who hired hitmen to murder newlywed Anni Dewani near Cape Town in 2010, is suffering from a 'chronic' illness and may have only months to live, it was said.

Kemoy Royal, 32, was arrested after quick thinking workers at The Chipper Truck Cafe called police when they received a note asking for help on the GrubHub delivery app

Researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois have uncovered a link between exposure to light during sleep and obesity. Having a BMI above 30 puts people at greater risk of diabetes.

Admiral Sir Tony Radakin said the lack of industrial capacity in Britain meant that topping up supplies - such as N-Laws and Brimstone missiles - would not happen quickly.

Speaking at the Chalke Valley History Festival, Professor Ridley said Edward's abdication stemmed from his father George V's failure to 'build a relationship' with his son. Above: The pair in 1910.

Researchers in Norway have found that women who are deficient in the female sex hormones are more likely to suffer sleep apnoea.

Martyn Green, from Totnes, Devon, was recently left with blood running down his neck after the gull stabbed him in the top of his head - leaving him unable to leave his home.

Tragic Aryan Ghoniya was found dead in the River Taff, at Whitchurch, at around 5.45pm on Tuesday, on a stretch of water where children often splash around in during hot weather.

Dr Bobbi Pritt, a pathologist at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, told DailyMail.com that both diseases had been known for years and initially spread undetected in the United States.

Aslin, 28, was captured alongside fellow Brit Shaun Pinner by Russian forces while fighting as part of the Ukrainian army in Mariupol last month and the pair were handed a death sentence

Emergency services were called to the scene on Martens Avenue in Bexleyheath just before 9pm last night.

Polio used to paralyse millions of children around the world every year in the 1940s and 1950s and consign thousands to 'iron lungs' - large machines that helped them breathe.

Holidaymakers waiting to board an easyJet plane to Manchester tried to break out of the stuffy unventilated room through a fire exit before discovering their flight had been cancelled.

Passengers at Manchester Airport did not receive their bags for over two hours despite being the 'only plane' to land. Ministers have drawn up last minute plans to help prevent summer chaos.

Locals taunted Medway Council in Kent after their own planning officers recommended blocking the request because the eco-friendly panels would ruin the 'architecture of the building.'

At least five disguised Russian ships have been tracked recently coming from, en route to or in docks in Italy, Denmark, and the Netherlands, even after EU sanctions came into full effect.

One of his accused killers allegedly beat the aspiring engineer with the black metal cane which was used to conceal a sword. Fares was riding an e-scooter in Canning Town when he was attacked.

John Barrett repeatedly stabbed 50-year-old Denis Finnegan with a kitchen knife after attacking him as he cycled through Richmond Park in south west London in September 2004.

Dr Melissa Drake made the announcement on Instagram, where she said it had been 'the honor of my life to work with the women of Santa Barbara' before announcing a 'leave of absence' from June 30.

DailyMail.com has obtained a never-before-seen photo of Ghislaine Maxwell with husband Scott Borgerson at a Christmas party at a nursing home in 2017.

The most expensive parking at £35-a-day is found at London Bridge Station, followed by King's Cross at £29.95. Across the road in St Pancras International, the fee drops to £27.70.

The author gave the hardback copy, one of the first 500 to be printed, to her neighbour in Edinburgh to pass on to her two young relatives.

Ernesto Ceraldi, 44, was sentenced at Preston Crown Court on Wednesday after pleading guilty to attempted rape and assault occasioning actual bodily harm at an earlier hearing.

Indonesia will soon offer a visa that will allow remote workers to live there tax-free as long as their earnings come from outside the country (Bali pictured).

Lance Sergeant Peter Duckworth, 34, was today cleared of grabbing the woman's bottom five times on the dance floor at an Army quiz night hosted at the Mount Pleasant base on the Falkland Islands.

Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, the 46-year-old Secretary of State for Development, is under investigation for rape after a woman who cannot be named for legal reasons filed two complaints.

A North Wales court heard Norman Butler, 60, (left) bled to death just a month after starting his new job. The prosecution allege gross negligence because employees were not properly protected

Brazilian Judge, Joana Ribeiro Zimmer (pictured), who banned an 11-year-old girl rape victim from having an abortion, has been promoted.

Canterbury Crown Court heard that one tenant of the properties on Athelstan Road in Margate, Kent, was doused in petrol and had has teeth smashed by a gang of 10 people.

A Scottish teacher accused of allegedly kissing and groping a pupil has admitted drinking 'an excessive amount of alcohol' on the night in question.

Striking unions want to keep a series of bizarre regulations in place including sending nine workers to 'change a plug socket' and getting 12 minutes' pay for 60-second walk.

A 30-year-old British tourist in Greece was rushed to hospital in a sealed capsule via helicopter (pictured) over fears they have Monkeypox.

More needs to be done to encourage British men to donate sperm to stop a nationwide sperm shortage forcing women to rely on operators, including from abroad, with less stringent checks.

Scientists believe the UK's latest surge has mainly been fuelled by Omicron sub-variants BA.4 and BA.5, which are even more transmissible than the strain that caused pandemic highs in April.

Councillors have voted to ask officials to draw up proposals which will ban new-build second homes and holiday lets in some areas of East Sussex.

The teacher was attacked on social media following the altercation with the student, who had allegedly refused to remove her veil to take her exam at the Charlemagne High School in Paris (file image).

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Speaking alongside Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu in Ankara, Liz Truss warned the grain crisis is 'urgent' and must be solved in the next month.

The GMB union is today set to announce the results of a strike ballot of BA check-in and ground staff members at Heathrow Airport for later this year.

Health authorities have issued a warning over a new Omicron subvariants on the rise across the country as experts expect them to become the dominant strains in coming weeks.

The Bank of England will be withdrawing the legal tender status of old paper £20 and £50 banknotes after 30 September 2022.

Southwestern Community College, in Sylva, North Carolina, announced the decision to go virtual one day a week on the school's website earlier this month, blaming the 'ever-rising costs of gasoline'.

Daniel Andrews' Victorian government is set for a huge reshuffle with four senior members of his cabinet set to retire.

Aiden Aslin, 28, and Shaun Pinner, 48, face being shot by a firing squad after being convicted of attempting 'a violent seizure of power' in the Donetsk People's Republic.

The couple are reportedly divorcing after six years with their apparent split revealed publicly when she failed to attend his annual summer party in London this week - and nor did her family.

Rishi Sunak underlined the need to be 'responsible' with the public finances after the Treasury told Whitehall departments any extra wage boosts must be found from within existing budgets.

Little Charlie Mullaley was snatched by his evil step-dad Mervyn Bell and endured a brutal 15-hour terror ordeal at the sick pervert's hands - but police arrested his mother and ignored pleas for help.

A Solstice Bench at Wollongong University has captured Twitter's attention for its 'magic' Solstice shape-changing shadow.

John Keats, Wilfred Owen, Thomas Hardy and Philip Larkin have been removed from GCSE syllabuses in order to facilitate new woke authors being added to the roster.

Australia's most famous sex worker posted an image of herself being taken off an international flight in a wheelchair after falling violently ill.

Survivor Sammy Woodhouse spoke out after a report into the scandal revealed almost 50 police officers all kept their jobs despite looking the other way as girls were trafficked and groomed.

A man accused of murdering a missing Sydney woman told police he left her place with bags of garbage which she asked him to throw away.

A seven-year-old boy was sitting in the car with his dad in Long Beach when a suspect approached 30-year-old Leevi Matuni Maseuli of Palmdale, pictured, and shot him dead on Father's Day.

Chelsea Henley, 18, slumped to the group during the incident in Warrington, Cheshire, last month. She was advised to go home by officers before defiantly pushing a PC in the chest.

Ukraine's Chief Intelligence Directorate said the Kremlin forces were hospitalised after they boobytrapped themselves in the village of Kinski Rozdory in Zaporizhzhia.

All four inmates (pictured) who escaped from a federal prison camp in Virginia over the weekend are now back in custody.

The story of Brittany Higgins' alleged rape was broken more than 16 months before Lisa Wilkinson's now notorious Logies speech that caused the resulting trial to be indefinitely postponed.

Costs for journeys dramatically increased today as the RMT union at Network Rail and 13 train operators are staging a second day of strike action today, with just 20 per cent of services running.

Brothers Frank and Patrik Riklin have set up their null stern suite - German for zero star - on a roadside next to a petrol station in the village of Saillon, in the southern Swiss canton of Valais.

The hard-nosed star of the ABC's current affairs flagship gave her verdict on eight Australian prime ministers which included a surprising take on Scott Morrison and emotional memories of two legends.

Thursday night's massive $40million Powerball Jackpot will be held at 8:30pm AEST on Channel 7.

Michael von Berg, a Military Cross recipient who served as a combat soldier in the Vietnam War, said he was 'very angry' after Adam Bandt's staff removed the Australia flag before a press conference.

One Australian city has been crowned one of the world's most livable in the 2022 ratings from The Economist while other state capitals have dropped down the list.

BREAKING: Ahmed Bana, 25, Nurul Amin, 24, and Dante Campbell, 20, have been charged over the gunpoint robbery of former boxing world champion Amir Khan in east London in April, Met Police said.

Australia's own version of the 'great resignation' appears to be underway with a third of bosses struggling to recruit and a lack of applicants when they advertise positions.

A Queensland man who shot both of his beloved pet crocodiles and dumped them at a government office claims the Department of Environment and Science should pay him $100,000.

The comedian, 61, took to Twitter to share a photo of herself beaming in a teal dress while on the red carpet at the Logies, before hinting at a political run.

The nation's largest supermarket group has warned customers that disrupted growing conditions caused by bad weather has impacted the supply and price of grocery basket staples.

The UK Health and Security Agency has urged the 20,000 people who are set to descend on Worthy Farm in Somerset for the five-day-long festival to be mindful of the disease as case numbers rise.

A rock stacking craze made popular on social media is slammed by Queensland environmentalists because of its harmful impacts.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had been conducting a 'telephone marathon' on his country's behalf in the run-up to the meeting, making his case to the EU leaders.

Highway patrol officers stopped a Kia Sportage on Terry Street, in Albion Park in the state's south, just before 8.30am on Thursday for a random breath test.

Stevie Bamford (right), an Australian bikini model who famously lied about being raped by a tuktuk driver has been sentenced for living it up in a luxury hotel room on another woman's credit card.

The man who as a teen brutally stabbed 15-year-old Tania Burgess to death in a car park will get out of jail a year early after being granted parole despite the family calling for him to never be released.

Dashcam footage shows the moment a Fiat driver smashes into another car after a last minute attempt to merge lanes - but viewers say the both drivers are at fault.

The partner of a Qantas passenger whose mother's ashes went missing with her luggage took to Twitter to prompt the carrier into action. Qantas responded it had now couriered the bag to the customer.

Five years before the shocking news of their split, the couple were loved-up when Rupert Murdoch, 91, took his former supermodel bride Jerry Hall home to Australia in January 2017.

A Victorian mobile speed camera was parked on the side of the road when a vandal smashed its windows and slashed its tyres nine days after another traffic vehicle was rammed by a car.

Pornhub-owner MindGeek said on Tuesday that CEO Feras Antoon and COO David Tassillo have resigned after more than a decade running the adult website company amid scathing reports.

Young Australians sick of unaffordable housing are flocking to regional areas. One small town in South Australia has seen a doubling of new residents from a big city - with 31 their average age.

Stefano Giacobba (pictured) claimed Dominick Krankall trod on a flaming cup that exploded on him despite their pleas to leave it alone in the yard in Bridgeport.

The lawyer representing Brian Laundrie's parents says they have 'no regrets' about their response to Gabby Petito's murder. He says they did 'everything the right way' in their handling of the case.

See what happened when Minions: The Rise of Gru star Steve Carell auditioned for the role of Yellow Wiggle without realising the role has already been filled.

Thieves smashed the window to a Staten Island home after spotting a  $400,000 convertible Rolls-Royce sitting in the driveway. After grabbing the keys and driving off they were soon stopped.

Eight people who have battled with drug dependence answered confronting questions from curious members of the public for an episode of the ABC's You Can't Ask.

A Victorian bouncing castle operator has pleaded guilty to multiple arson conspiracy charges after he paid his shady associates to firebomb his competitors out of business.

Jeremiah James Taylor, 33, was arrested early Monday after stealing a police car, impersonating an officer and leading cops on a 110mph chase. He crashed the car before he was apprehended.

The FDA is investigating after another child died after allegedly consuming infant formula produced by Abbott Laboratories. The death occurred in January, according to a consumer complaint from June 10.

Red River Trust acquired six parcels of land near the borders of Minnesota and Canada in November that officials say may violate state corporate farming laws. The trust has been linked to Bill Gates.

Severe thunderstorms struck both the West and East Coast on Wednesday morning, bringing powerful lightning and storm winds that devastated Los Angeles and Central Virginia.

Health officials have recorded at least 118 illnesses resembling the contagious norovirus in the Grand Canyon National Park since May, with the sickness leading to many rescues in the park.

Nicholas John Roske, 26, of Simi Valley, California pleaded not guilty on Wednesday of attempting to assassinate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

A photo of the sign began making the rounds online after it was posted on Facebook on Monday, and the response was vitriolic and swift. The woman who wrote it said she meant no ill-will.

Wittek, 32, accused Dobrik, 25, of 'general negligence and intentional tort,' alleging that Dobrik's caused him to rack up hospital bills from extensive surgeries

Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District superintendent Dr. Hal Harrell announced the decision in a statement released on Wednesday.

Yanni Nikopoulos and Dale Jones, both 65, were last heard from on June 13 when they called their daughter to say their boat had been damaged and they were turning back for Virginia.

Elon Musk's ex-wife Justine was seen for the first time since their son Xavier - now daughter Vivian - revealed her plans to change gender and cut ties with her billionaire father.

Four people have allegedly been stabbed after a knife-wielding man went on a rampage on the beach in New Zealand.

A Woman woke to find a neighbor in her bedroom, standing over her. A struggle ensued and the homeowner managed to call 911 and grab a gun. She fired a single round fatally striking 26-year-old.

Three women were attacked as they walked along a Philadelphia street at night. Doorbell camera captured the moment  Malcolm White, 36, attacked them all without warning.

The journalist questioned that schoolchildren are afraid of going to class and that mass shootings don't happen in the UK when Greene snapped at her.

Meisha Wallace, 48, of Columbus, (pictured) lost her leg after it was pinned between a bagel shop and a taxi cab.

The youths also reportedly got into the owners and their children's bed, left dirty footmarks in the tub, and tried on the woman's clothes, shoes, and swimsuits.

Felicia Davis, 32, was arrested after refusing to give police identification after they told her to stop playing music from a loudspeaker in East Harlem.

The Bergen County Prosecutor's office said Mohamed Konate, 27, of New York City, was taken into custody.

Graham Wynn, boss of Australian and NZ firm Superior People Recruitment, has revealed how Centrelink can stop rorters cheating the benefits system.

Unaccompanied minors under the age of 18 can apply for a visa if they have parental consent - as part of an overhaul to the Homes for Ukraine scheme.

Teachers going on strike would be 'unforgiveable', Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi has said, as the biggest teachers' union warned of industrial action over pay and workload.

The Opposition Leader said Anthony Albanese's policies will cause higher prices in the shops, encourage illegal immigration and fail to bring down energy bills as promised.

A Frankston speed camera has residents of a Melbourne suburb living in a constant state of fear, booking locals and celebrities alike at an astonishing rate of $20,000 in fines a day.

Brianna Jonovitch, 30, had been staying in a hostel in Hobart in May and was using the communal kitchen when she was suddenly set alight.