Michael Gove is set to hold crisis talks with Brussels' chiefs and Northern Ireland leaders today in a bid to defuse growing tensions in the wake of last week's vaccine exports fiasco.

It means just 1 per cent of the country recorded a week-on-week increase of cases in the seven days to January 28, according to Public Health England figures.

Bezos announced the change in an email to staff on Tuesday afternoon and as the company reported bumper 2020 Q4 earnings of more than $100billion.

The Health Secretary has laid into the unnamed teenager, who calls himself 'AA Bants', after repeatedly accusing Mr Whitty of 'lying' to the nation about the pandemic.

An 11-year-old boy who was forced by his father and stepmother to live inside a barrel where he ate his own feces was rescued by authorities in the southern Brazilian city of Campinas.

The Irish singer, 54, who shares her son with ex Donal Lunny, revealed that she'd had a 'hideous day from hell' as she made the appeal on Twitter on Monday.

An Office for National Statistics report published today found booze was a contributing factor in 5,460 fatalities in England and Wales between January and September, a rate of 12.8 per 100,000.

The screen star, 35, plays 56-year-old landowner Edith Pretty in the movie, which is based on the novel about the unearthing of the Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo.

Two attempted dognappers got a fright when they tried to steal Nellie the Belgian Malinois from owner Toby Currier, 19, while they were on a walk in Cosham, Hampshire.

The blast in the Rye Canyon Loop sparked a wildfire that spread to one acre before it was put out, according to local reports.

Digital software company NordVPN Teams compared data from last month with pre-pandemic levels and found the average working week had increased by 25 per cent in the UK.

EXCLUSIVE: Nearly 50 positive cases have been recorded among the 750 trainees at the prestigious academy, which trains the cream of the UK's military talent and was attended by Princes William and Harry.

The Queen tonight led tributes to inspirational war veteran and fundraising hero Captain Sir Tom Moore after he died aged 100 after being admitted to hospital with coronavirus.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was today sentenced to two-and-a-half years in a penal colony after being arrested last month for violating the probation terms of a 2014 embezzlement conviction.

The UK Gambling Commission has announced new measures to tackle addictive web-based casino games, which include slowing down the placing of bets.

Cambridge University has added an 'over-subscription' clause to its offers which could leave students stripped of their places if too many meet their required grades.

Labour is adopting a new strategy to win back voters including brandishing the Union flag and praising the army, a leaked document shows. It comes after extensive focus groups.

Three trainee gravediggers were asked to dig a mock grave in a cemetery as part of their training, but instead used a digger and excavated a hole in Easthill Field, Frome, Somerset.

The government has revealed another 352,935 jabs were administered in 24 hours as the huge push continues, taking the total into eight figures, amid hope everyone could be vaccinated by August.

A new study from the Icahn School of Medicine found that COVID-19 survivors had antibody levels 10 to 20 times higher have just one shot and about 10-fold higher after a second shot.

Conservative MPs in the North of England have warned they will not be 'bullied,' into accepting a hike in fuel duty of up to 2p, ahead of Rishi Sunak's Covid budget on March 3.

Matt Hancock said door-to-door screening was being deployed more widely as the government scrambles to suppress the emergence of variant versions of the deadly disease.

A Public Health England report confirmed that scientists have found at least 11 cases where the Kent variant also had a mutation found in the South African strain, which it doesn't usually carry.

A unique set of first edition books written by James Bond author, Ian Fleming, are on sale for £475,000. They include 14 Bond novels, nine of which signed by Fleming.

Scientists at the University of Nottingham have found thapsigargin is effective against respiratory viruses including Covid-19 and the common cold. The drug, had previously been used in clinical trials for cancer.

UK Biobank scientists found Covid-19 antibodies persisted for six months in 88 per cent of those that fought off an infection, and were maintained in 99 per cent for three months.

The blogger, 'Sapphire', issued a heartfelt plea to the droves of reality stars and influencers who have beaten a path for Dubai to escape the UK lockdown to 'stay away, unless you can follow the rules'.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel told state broadcaster ARD (pictured) that 'every vaccine is welcome in the European Union' as she heaped praise on Russia's Sputnik V vaccine.

Researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found the rate of past infection, known as seroprevalence, was at 64 per cent in the community of around 15,000 people.

Marilyn Manson has branded the sexual abuse allegations against him "horrible distortions of reality".

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Audiologist Neel Raithatha, known as The Wax Whisperer online, filmed the extraction of the baby tooth from the young boy's eardrum at his clinic in Oadby, Leicestershire.

The note, penned in 1969, is believed to have been part of a school project in which British students suggested what they thought life would be like in 1980.

Dr Anthony Costello, a paediatrician at University College London and member of Independent SAGE, warned experts are still baffled by the long-term complications of coronavirus.

Britain today recorded 16,840 Covid cases in the lowest daily rise in eight weeks. Department of Health figures also showed deaths are continuing to fall, with another 1,449 victims.

Primary, nursery and some secondary pupils will head back to class from February 22 if the coronavirus rate is low enough, the First Minister told Holyrood today.

The government moved to toughen the border regime last week, announcing that the ban on travellers from more than 30 'hotspot' countries will be expanded with 'quarantine hotels'.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding chef Clare Smyth, originally from Northern Ireland, has spoken about the Duchess' love of food as she praised the royal in an interview with BBC.

Rachel Davies, 29, took time off from her classroom at at Wrexham Early Years Centre, North Wales, by claiming she injured her knee copying the Dirty Dancing move.

'Rachel Meghan' was taken off the document to leave just 'Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Sussex' with royal protocol blamed by the LA-based couple's US PR team.

The group of 140 doctors from east London warned many patients who suffer from milder symptoms of the virus have often not even considered they may have it and have not self-isolated.

The 54-year-old, widely tipped as a future SNP leadership challenger to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, was replaced yesterday as justice and home affairs spokeswoman.

Bernard Ovu, 35, was trapped in a stairwell at Canning Town station for nearly an hour before tripping down a flight of concrete steps leading off the escape bridge on January 22, 2017.

Of the £281,107 total at Parliament's bars, just £22,062 or 8 per cent was spent from July 4 when UK venues were initially allowed to reopen following the first national lockdown.

Researchers from Cyprus say current forecasting models only take into account two factors: rate of transmission and recovery and should include wind, temperature and humidity.

PC Alan Friday, 42, who worked as a dog handler with Cheshire Police, bombarded Andrea Church, her twin sister and her sister's husband with 50 phone calls begging them not to report him.

Michael Gove today accused the European Union of inflaming community tensions in Northern Ireland after its ditched plans to stop vaccine exports to the UK.

In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, the adult movie actress divulged the disturbing details about her brief affair in 1997 with the self-styled 'antichrist'.

Southport residents queued for testing after the South African strain was found in the area but staff at the test centre in Splash World told them the accurate PCR kits had not yet arrived.

Nicole Elkabbas, 42, is due to be sentenced this week after she was found guilty of setting up a fraudulent GoFundMe page in 2018 where she racked up £45,000 in donations.

Restaurant bosses on the Isle of Man have revealed how they have already received a flurry of bookings, while bars are putting out job adverts for staff ahead the first weekend of freedom.

Daniel Hendry was onboard a flight to the UK from Tenerife when he told staff: 'F*** off, I'm going to punch you, going to smash your head in' after refusing to wear a mask.

Judges at the Court of Appeal said banker Kerim Derhalli, 58, had no right to a single penny in rent of the couple's home in Kensington, West London from his ex-wife Jayne Richardson Derhalli, 57.

One passenger from Northampton called the situation a 'joke' as he posted a video showing crowds waiting at the border at Heathrow airport last night.

The internet giant announced the settlement on Monday to resolve the four-year-old allegations in California and Washington state.

Cheshire Police allegedly warned staff operating camera vans they were 'too lenient' and should be looking to up their targets and snare another 2,400 speeding drivers a month.

Downing Street today slapped down Ursula von der Leyen after she accused Britain of compromising on coronavirus vaccine safety.

Air Commodore Paul Godfrey (pictured), 48, will carry the new rank of Air Vice Marshal when he takes the helm at Space Command at RAF High Wycombe.

Young Man Holding a Roundel hung at Plas Glynllifon, in Wales, for decades and was sold 'for a few shillings' when the Newborough family sold the mansion unaware it was a rare masterpiece.

Julia, no surname given, had last been seen at about 12.30pm in the Easton area on January 31, Avon and Somerset Police said. The force added their appeals had been shared 25,000 times.

The monument of General Sir Redvers Buller has been outside Exeter College for more than 100 years, but its future was in doubt after the city council announced a review in response to BLM protests.

Professor Christopher Gosden (pictured) said Dr Jean Weddell had vowed in 2003 to leave him her London home, but he was left with nothing when she died in 2013.

Office for National Statistics (ONS) data shows deaths from coronavirus were only higher in the week to April 17, when England and Wales were in the grip of the first wave.

The petition, launched by Say It Loud, follows recent claims that a university rugby team had collected and 'rated' naked photographs of female students.

Glebs Zaicevs made the property in Swansea his own until he was caught red-handed on the couple's return, at which point he grabbed his jacket and left muttering: 'This is embarrassing'.

In the CCTV footage a young man can be seen getting caught under the wheels of a pensioner's speeding mobility scooter after emerging from Nationwide bank in Bourne, Lincolnshire.

Anil Gill, 46, of Beresford Close, Emerson Valley, Milton Keynes is due before magistrates in the city after officers found a woman in her forties had died at his home on Sunday morning.

Kim Courtney, 61, from Morecambe, Lancs. said she felt 'totally empty' after her husband of 13 years Eugene, 63, died three weeks after his Covid-19 diagnosis.

Children's Commissioner Anne Longfield said about 500,000 teachers and 500,000 support staff could all be given the jab 'in a couple of days' given recent data on vaccination capacity in Britain.

Ryan Murryland, 31, was caught in the undersea link on December 21, causing all trains to be stopped at a cost of some £45,000. Appearing in court in Boulogne-sur-Mer, he said he had no memory of it.

Detectives are trying to track down Frank Sonny Redman, 34, following the suspicious death of a 60-year-old that he knew in Uxbridge on Sunday.

Prosecutors in Russia will investigate claims by Krestina (pictured) and Angelina Khachaturyan that father Mikhail subjected them to years of abuse before they killed him in 2018.

Patricia Mann started working for Vintage Wines Ltd in Nottingham, which supplies and stores rare bottles for wealthy clients, after the company was defrauded by a previous employee.

Chloe Lomas (pictured), 22, from Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, was pregnant with her partner, but her former lover Sam Donnelly found out from his jail cell.

Speaking out, the Charmed actress, 47, who was engaged to Marilyn, 52, for two years before they ended their romance in 2001, branded Hollywood 'a cult'

Police and the local coast guard are searching for the man, 61, who was last seen on the beach near Sunset Crest, St. James on Monday.

Ryan Giggs has cut half a million pounds from the five-bedroom Salford mansion he shared with ex-wife Stacey and their children, two years after it initially went up for sale for £3.5million.

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Health Secretary Matt Hancock defended the current 'stringent' measures - but made clear that even harsher arrangements are in the pipeline.

Hundreds were rounded up in Moscow and St Petersburg on Tuesday as riot police faced off against Navalny's supporters - who have taken to the streets across Russia.

NRL club St George Illawarra Dragons have scrapped plans to sign Israel Folau after a massive backlash over their decision to pursue the controversial footy star.

Matthew Dutton was left struggling to walk and acting 'like a robot' after he mixed the party drug with alcohol during a night out with friends in Wigan, Greater Manchester last August.

Rihanna's tweet, criticised by Indian authorities as 'irresponsible', drew global support from the likes of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg and US vice president's niece Meena Harris.

The pair began sobbing after listening back to a version of You'll Never Walk Alone which the singer recorded with Captain Tom to gain him a UK No1 single.

The Met Office said some communities in Scotland could be cut off for days, with no gas, electricity, water or phones when the most disruptive snowfall since the 'Beast from the East' in 2018 is expected.

Susan Howes from Broughton, Stockbridge in Hampshire said she has had a bird box in her garden for the past 20 years. She said over that time owls and kestrels have used it to breed.

The alleged victim alerted motorists by waving her hand through the hole of the Holden Commodore being driven along the Hume Highway in Berrima, NSW, on Wednesday at 11.30am.

The huge reptile, believed to be a Burmese python, was coiled up next to a metal fence in Greenock, Renfrewshire, and the men thought it was dead - before it started to slither.

Melissa Caddick sent a potential customer a cheery hello on Facebook, made small talk and made gratuitous reference to her recent holiday in the millionaire's playground of Aspen.

The Health Secretary this morning said that a study published last night made it 'absolutely crystal clear that the Oxford vaccine not only works, but works well,' and said it could get us out of the pandemic.

The Tasmanian Government will pump $10million into helping to revive a King Island mine producing tungsten, a mineral seen as critical to national security.

The strategy, presented to officials by the party's head of research last month, stresses the need for a more patriotic image in the wake of the disastrous Jeremy Corbyn era.

Russia's Sputnik V vaccine has long been viewed sceptically in the West, but Europe was warming to the jab on Tuesday after trial results published in a medical journal showed it was 91.6 effective.

More than a year after China revealed the disease, the UN agency accused of parroting Beijing's false claims was allowed to visit the infamous Institute of Virology on Wednesday.

Footage captured in Fayetteville, Arkansas, shows the playful cat get its claw stuck on the curtain as its owner delivers a speech to her class on her laptop.

A court hearing over the future of Swindon Town FC descended into a 'circus' with people playing pornography and shouting obscenities.

An urgent investigation is now underway after the mutant strain spread from one group to another on the same floor, amid fears it went through the ventilation system.

Justin Ibershoff, 38, was descending Deimos Canyon in California on Saturday when he stepped on a loose rock and triggered a rockslide that pushed him over a 95-foot dry fall.

Donald Trump's son hit out at the Biden administration in an appearance on Fox News' Hannity Tuesday night slamming the 'double standard' and 'hypocrisy'.

Innocent Drinks unfollowed blogger Margaret Nelson after a Twitter user questioned why they followed the woman they described as a 'clear transphobe'.

QAnon Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Parkland shooting survivor and gun control activist David Hogg was trained 'like a dog' in a clip that surfaced Tuesday.

Yang Guangyi, 32, abducted the young child who was on her way home after selling her hand-picked passion fruit before in southern Guangxi Province. The girl died after being raped.

The young girl was jogging in Goodmayes Park, Ilford, east London, on Monday afternoon when she was grabbed by a white man and dragged into nearby bushes. Police are appealing for information.

Terrifying dash cam footage has captured the moment a driver swerves off a road into a nearby paddock, and crashes through two fences, with driver explaining he was experiencing a stroke

The son got into a heated argument with his 75-year-old mother on Tuesday at a home in the NSW Snowy Mountains before he dragged her into his car, police said.

The Fun Tea store in Gouger Street, Adelaide, posted a statement on their front window on Wednesday, after the man was arrested.

Lindell was asked about the Twitter ban on Newsmax Tuesday night but instead launched into a rant spewing out unfounded claims of election fraud.

Captain Tom Moore inspired the hearts of the nation when he raised more than £32million for the NHS by walking the length of his garden. But his unbelievable life stretches back decades.

Ten hidden travel gems showcase surprising spots in Australia that could easily be international destinations.The unique locations could easily be mistaken for exotic locales.

Alabama Rep. Mike Rogers and Florida Rep. Mike Waltz hit out at Psaki Tuesday for what they described as a 'disgraceful' quip about the military branch.

Emergency services were called to a home in the Blacktown suburb of Shalvey around midday on Tuesday, where they found an eight-week-old girl unconscious in a bath.

Lin Wood, left, is under investigation for allegedly voting illegally as Georgia officials seek to determine if he was a resident of the state. He championed Donald Trump's, right, claims of voter fraud.

Special Agent Laura Schwartzenberger, 43, and Special Agent Daniel Alfin, 36, were killed in Sunrise, just outside Fort Lauderdale, on Tuesday morning.

Bannon, 66, left, received a Trump pardon, center, for federal charges alleging he benefited from a fraud scheme. Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr., right, is exploring charging him.

In a video posted to Instagram on Tuesday night, fashion stylist Love Bailey, who is trans, claims that Marilyn Manson held a gun to her forehead and told her 'I don't like f*****s'.

Newly released police reports from ex-Seattle Seahawks player Chad Wheeler's domestic violence arrest reveal a chaotic scene in which three officers struggled to subdue the 315-pounder.

Dr Bridget Cullen, a lawyer and board member for a governing body which run four elite Christian schools in Brisbane, has stepped down over a series of 'wildly inappropriate' Facebook posts.

Western Australia has recorded zero new coronavirus cases for the third day in a row as Perth and other parts of the state remain in a brutal lockdown. 

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's wife Ginni caused consternation among an email group of her husband's clerks by her fervently pro-Trump posts before the riot.

At least three homes were condemned along the Massachusetts coastline on Tuesday after Storm Orlena brought huge waves and coastal flooding.

A proposed law, introduced to the Australian Parliament in December, will force Facebook and Google to negotiate fees with news companies whose stories appear on their platforms.

A young woman with multiple stab wounds has been found in a car boot after a motorist spotted her hand waving from the rear taillight.

Sarah Milosevic was two days from giving birth when a drunk and drug-affected driver ploughed into the family car minutes from home after a trip to the shops south of Brisbane in August 2014.

On Monday NYU published 'False Accusation: The Unfounded Claim that Social Media Companies Censor Conservatives.' Tucker Carlson described the report as a farce.

Palm Beach town lawyer John C. Randolph has advocated for the City Council to allow President Donald Trump to live in his Mar-a-Lago resort permanently, despite an agreement from the 1990s.

'Just how random are these house-to-house tests for this South African variant?'

Residents want the city to remove the statue of San Jose's 10th mayor, Thomas Fallon, center. The statue, left, was previously defaced by Black Lives Matter protests, right.

The 'Sexy Search Index' was created by researchers who looked at search volumes for sex-related terms in 100 countries around the world throughout 2020.

McCarthy, inset, met with Greene, left, in his Capitol office after Republicans faced pressure to strip her from her committee seats. House Republicans hope to strip Ilhan Omar, right, of her committee seats.

Eve Black, who went viral in July for breaching a Melbourne lockdown blockade, has revealed she is now on a journey to religious enlightenment and living with nuns to 'get closer to god'.

More than 200 firefighters are bracing for more challenging conditions as the blaze in Perth's north-east burns out of control for a third day. The blaze is now four times the size of Rottnest Island.

The 41-year-old left his parent's home at Kirrawee, in Sydney's south, travelled to the high-rise office block at 201 Kent Street on Friday morning. Hours later police walked in and arrested him.

Following an accident in the wild, Clarence the koala fell from a tall tree which resulted in him suffering painful and swollen ulcerated eyes.

AFL star Sam Naismith has tattooed an image of his Brussels Griffon dog, Bobby, on his upper thigh sporting Sydney Swan's colours.

Lily Hodgson, 23, has slammed 'racist' followers on TikTok for asking her to 'prove' her Aboriginal heritage.

A police timeline can be revealed of TV host Andrew O'Keefe's alleged assault on his doctor girlfriend on Saturday evening, with court documents spelling out the events.

The rise of the eshay is reportedly striking fear into middle-class parents worried their children are pulling on designer clothes and baseball caps to emulate a dangerous sub-culture.

Figures put forward by Universities Australia reveal a 1.8 billion loss in operating revenue due to the lack of international students in 2020 and reports 17,000 educators are now out of a job

White House press secretary Jen Psaki and Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday called for the unconditional release of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Ryan Joseph Wenzlick had a volatile relationship with Portia Ashton, from Cambridge in New Zealand's north, for three or four years until they broke up in March 2020.

A South Australian policeman has been sacked for allowing a distressed man to smoke cannbis during a raid, with the Police Comissioner calling the offence 'a significant mistake'

MIKE COLMAN writes that Tokyo Olympic officials should 'put everyone out of their misery' and call off the coronvirus-impacted Games, still scheduled to go ahead in 2021.

Sprinter Laura Whaler, who competed at the World Championships alongside Olympic gold medallist Sally Pearson, has been hit with 53 fines accumulated over 18 months.

Mr Kelly has caused outrage over the past few months by promoting unproven drugs to treat Covid-19 and calling into the question the safety of vaccines.

Matt Lawson, a member of radical anti-vaxx group United Collective, dropped off 'information' pamphlets to a Melbourne nursing home in an Instagram live stream on Tuesday night.

The three-year-old staffie named Milly was repeatedly bitten by a saltwater crocodile in Tumbling Waters near Darwin, Northern Territory, on Wednesday.

Andy Jassy, 53, will step into Jeff Bezos's daunting shoes later this year as the new CEO of Amazon, Bezos announced on Tuesday. Jassy is currently head of Amazon Web Services.

New South Wales residents can expect significantly eased coronavirus restrictions from next Friday after the state went 17 days with zero new Covid-19 cases.

Darren William Budd, 54, from Deeral, south of Cairns, was fined $3500 in the Cairns Magistrates Court on Monday for three counts of breaching his duty of care to an animal.

The democrat, who is running for mayor of New York City after his failed presidential campaign, said in a statement that he took the rapid test on Tuesday after testing negative.

Ohrin Banas, 26, remains behind bars after he was arrested by Australian Federal Police at his home in a quiet Lane Cove cul-de-sac on Sydney's north shore.