Pictures show 'happy and cheerful' Leiland Corkill with his natural mother, Laura, before his tragic death last month. The one-year-old died at Liverpool's Alder Hey Children's Hospital on January 7.

Terrorist Yasser Al-Sirri, who claimed asylum in Britain after he was sentenced to death in Egypt for a failed assassination plot, is set to win the right to stay in this country.

Controversial academic Corinne Fowler was branded 'crass' yesterday for comparing the British Empire with Japan's brutal treatment of prisoners during the Second World War.

Heathrow Airport has warned that travellers may be forced to queue for up to five hours at Border Control as the Government's quarantine hotels plan comes into force today.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who are currently residing in California, are expecting a baby later this year, spokesperson for the couple has confirmed.

Plans to ease lockdown were boosted yesterday by figures showing the dramatic impact vaccines are already having as Boris Johnson last night confirmed the country had hit its target of 15 million.

Drini Dosku, 35, from Orpington, Kent, became the 'leading light' in the 'Deliveroo style' cocaine delivery service which is estimated to have made around half a million pounds in nine months.

Sylvia Hall, 66, was arrested for carrying a pistol without a license and possession of an unregistered firearm. A man, who has not been named, was arrested for possession of a BB gun

Teaching unions have questioned a plan to get all pupils back to school on March 8, asking why minister have abandoned the idea of a 'phased' return of year groups which was used last year.

Patrick Dardis, chief executive of the Young's pubs chain, said wet weather would make the outdoors-only idea unworkable.

An email was sent to an unknown number of DVLA members of staff asking them to divulge their waist size as part of a risk assessment for their potential return to the Swansea headquarters.

Historic Royal Palaces which is responsible for the Tower of London has spent £350,000 over the last five years caring for the resident ravens, a freedom of information request has revealed.

DIY enthusiasts and professional builders face a shortage of key products from timber to radiators, taps, cookers - and even kitchen sinks.

A study from University College London NHS trust found routine CT scans could catch 70 per cent of cancer growths in lungs when the disease is at stage one or two.

Meher Nawab, chief executive of the London Hotel Group, warns airport hotels often rely on central air flow systems, which he says raises the risk of the airborne virus spreading between guests and staff.

The new group, called Save Our Summer (SOS), is made up of UK travel companies whose total annual revenues came to more than £11billion before the Covid crisis.

If your eyes light up at the first sign of a bargain and you can never seem to resist shops that are holding a sale - you may have your parents to blame.

The campaigning father of Claudia Lawrence, a 35-year-old chef who vanished 12 years ago, has passed away in a York hospice after a short illness.

Property website Rightmove estimates that around 100,000 buyers will have to pay the tax because their property deal will not be complete before the stamp duty holiday ends on March 31.

The 49-year-old is thought to have escaped without penalty after traveling from Richmond to a small hamlet near Bude to see her mother Judith, 71, and stepfather, 75, on Friday.

Judges have long had the power to close public galleries during sex attack trials to protect victims and ensure justice is done, but it rarely happens in England and Wales.

Chief Superintendent Max Vernon was part of a six-man team charged with negotiating with six armed terrorists who besieged the diplomatic building in South Kensington and took 26 people hostage.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who are currently residing in California, announced that they are expecting a second child with what appears to be an intentional nod to Princess Diana.

Lord Chancellor Robert Buckland accused lawyers of 'taking the public for a ride' with legal challenges over immigration and asylum laws.

Carl Marrows was originally said to have died from natural causes but in reality he lost his life because of errors by hospital staff, an inquest heard.

Savers who lost thousands when Neil Woodford's empire collapsed have voiced their dismay after the disgraced fund manager revealed he plans to start again. Some 500,000 were affected.

Princess Eugenie, 30, is set to give her newborn son an unusual middle name - Stamp. It is expected the baby will be given the name in honour of an ancestor of his father, Jack Brooksbank.

Met Police officers set up a checkpoint today pulling over cars on Putney Bridge, west London, using ANPR. The police stopped and spoke to hundreds of drivers and handed out tickets.

Gulzar Hussai, 40, has been convicted of raping a woman in London more than 23 years ago. The victim had been on her way home after a night out Canary Wharf in October 1997.

Companies including Itsu and Pizza Hut cosigned the letter and said the scheme, which gave customers across the UK 50% off meals in August, would stop hospitality firms from failing.

Dad of two Michael O'Reilly, 61, from Birmingham, says his life has become a nightmare because he cannot stop burping. The former taxi driver has lived with the affliction for eight months.

King's College London epidemiology Professor Tim Spector said the Government's policy of delaying second jabs is 'paying off' and restrictions should be able to begin to be reduced within weeks.

Fashion model Nicole Gibson will next month become one of the first trans people in the UK to have the lining at the front of the vocal cords removed by laser.

It's now well recognised that bars, restaurants and gyms are ideal environments for Covid to transmit. But have the few places left for us to go during lockdown now become hubs for infection?

Former director general Tony Hall promised a review after a programme in the Great Lives series prompted thousands of complaints.

L'Oreal, the world's biggest make-up brand, predicts a post-pandemic sales bonanza when wearing lipstick will become 'a symbol of returning to life'.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 hit off the coast of eastern Japan on Saturday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

Officers from the Metropolitan Police are said to have written to the brutal killer to tell him about their investigation and are set to question him.

Last year, there was a living to be had in shellfish - but then the harsh post-Brexit reality struck.

The 23-year-old, who won a Nobel Prize after she refused to be silenced by the attack, had to rely on a friend to tell her what happened that day in 2012, when she was 15.

The package just handed over to us on the doorstep of a dishevelled terrace house in Street, Somerset, is one of the most sought-after items on the internet - a consignment of 'lost and missing post'.

Critics say the practice of logging 'non-crime hate incidents', even after officers decided what was said or posted online did not break any laws, has a 'chilling effect on free speech'.

The number of coronavirus cases have continued to drop as Boris Johnson today said he is 'optimistic' of being able to cautiously loosen lockdown in England.

A Covid-19 jab centre understood to be in London has been pictured lying empty with 'vaccinators sitting idle' as a volunteer slams the NHS system.

The Crowne Plaza hotel (pictured), near Heathrow airport, is among scores of hotels across Britain housing migrants who have slipped into the country illegally.

More than a quarter of districts are expected to set council tax of more than £2,000 for those in the average of Band D houses, analysis has found.

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Matt Hancock today slapped down Tory demands to lift all lockdown rules by the end of April as he warned 'there is a long way to go' before life can go back to normal.

An NRL player allegedly assaulted his fiancee after catching her making out with his fellow teammate just hours after she accused him of cheating on her. 

Ministers are said to be considering plans to allow hospitality firms to serve customers outside by Easter, which falls on the weekend of April 2, with a full reopening not expected until May at the earliest.

Travellers were seen being dropped off at the four-star Radisson Blu Edwardian near Heathrow after arriving from a variety of red list countries.

The nation's top infectious disease expert said re-opening schools 'can be done' but told ABC 's George Stephanopoulos that school districts 'really do need more resources'.

The mother, named only as 26-year-old R. Buvaneswari from the city of Thanjavur, said she was home alone on Saturday when monkeys broke into her home and snatched her newborn twins.

The Duke of Sussex is expected to return to the UK this summer to see his family for the first time since the couple decided to leave Britain and step down from their roles in the Royal Family.

A teenager who stabbed his mother, sister and brother in a horror triple massacre has been acquitted of murder after psychiatrists ruled he was of 'unsound mind' the day he killed them.

Mr Hancock said uptake of the vaccine had been 'much higher than expected', with more than 90 per cent of over-70s across the UK turning up to their appointments.

British brick-and-mortar retailers fear they are being undercut by online sellers on platforms such as Amazon and eBay who operate outside of the UK and 'manipulate' the system to avoid VAT.

The Loganholme catchment area where the infected sewerage was discovered receives wastewater from dozens of suburbs including Logan Central, Meadowbrook and Springwood.

Ash Barty was in ominous touch in her fourth round match against American Shelby Rogers at the Australian Open on Monday night, comfortably winning 6-3, 6-4.

An academy chief today cast doubt on 'optimistic' plans to get all pupils in England back into school at the start of March as he warned dates were 'being pulled out of thin air.'

Disturbing CCTV footage has emerged of a gutsy young schoolboy chasing down a much larger, older man at a train station in Sydney's west.

Publisher Pearson is offering 250 laptops and £50,000 cash on top as part of the Mail Force Computers for Kids campaign. One campaign recipient is 12-year-old Eva Wielfosz.

With 99 per cent of the votes counted, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's Socialists won the most votes but the three separatist parties together were set to get 74 seats in the 135-seat assembly.

Jake Deutsch, 47, the founder of Cure Urgent Care clinics in New York City, gave himself and partner Brian Atwood the second dose of the Moderna vaccine last week at home.

Several loved-up people took to the knee to ask their partner for their hand in marriage in the iconic square in New York City.

The fifty-year-old-male jumbo named Khun Pan was found starving - becoming so thin that his bones were protruding from his skin - and covered in sores and cuts in Chonburi, Thailand.

The 16-year-old was voted through to the next round by Katy Perry and Lionel Richie, but failed to convince Luke Bryant with her rendition of Adele's When We Were Young.

Bruno Le Maire, the French finance minister, warned of a 'difficult' election campaign for Macron against Le Pen amid movements of anger [and] of doubt which are very deep'.

Meena Harris's Phenomenal line is still listed on non-profit retail website Social Goods next to a quote from Harris, including a $59 sweatshirt with the word 'Ambitious' emblazoned across it.

Robert Purt, 18, asked for the police to be called after noticing a newspaper sticking out of an 88-year-old's letterbox in Birchington, Kent. The pensioner had been lying on the floor for three days.

Two dog walkers out for a stroll in suburban Melbourne got a big fright when they came across three territorial kangaroos standing guard on a narrow path (pictured).

Mitch McConnell on Sunday said that he would only support 'electable' candidates in 2022, setting him on a potential collision course with Trump - who he accused Saturday of 'disgraceful' behavior.

Joe Biden, 78, posted a picture of himself with his arms around his wife at last month's inauguration in D.C., writing: 'The love of my life and the life of my love. Happy Valentine's Day, Jilly.'

Natalia Vazina, 33, was fully undressed in the extreme frost in a forest near Moscow along with her children Grigory, ten, Lazar, two, and Marfa, 11 months.

Tessica Brown, 40, from Violet, will give the cash to the Restore Foundation. The charity helps those needing reconstructive surgery and is the brainchild of the doctor who removed the glue.

Earlier this month, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and NBC announced that this years' 78th annual Globes, set to air live on February 28, would be broadcast from both LA and NYC.

Silenced on Twitter and disgraced in many people's eyes since the violence at the Capitol, Trump surfaced on Sunday only to play at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.

A terminally ill newlywed who tied the knot with his partner on Valentine's Day will fly to Switzerland from his birthplace in Jersey to end his life at Dignitas.

Joseph Ligon, 83, was 15 years old when he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1953 for taking part in a string of robberies and assaults with a group of drunk teens in Philadelphia.

Despite parts of Victoria and South Australia heading for a heatwave with temperatures in the mid-thirties, New South Wales and Queensland won't see blue skies until next week.

A Melbourne pastor who defied coronavirus lockdown by holding a packed church service has claimed the pandemic is fake and has been fabricated to control citizens.

The wealthiest player at the Australian Open isn't tennis icons and multiple grand slam winners Novak Djokovic or Rafael Nadal.

A total of 71,844 people tested positive Sunday, the COVID Tracking Project said; the seven day average is 90,201. In January daily cases were reaching 225,000; the peak was 314,093.

Professor John Watson, part of the team that travelled to Wuhan to investigate the origins of the pandemic, said the leap from animals to humans may have occurred outside China.

Harry, 36, and Meghan, 39, confirmed the news with a black-and-white photo on Sunday. But for many fans the sight of the prince's bare feet proved too much.

Large crowds refusing to wear masks have turned out to protest Victoria's third coronavirus lockdown, demanding premier Dan Andrews lift restrictions on their freedom. 

The 'cyber security expert' who failed to buy Jimmy and Tam's home on The Block had an awfully tough 2020 dealing with major Australian and international banks.

Seattle's East Precinct was blocked in with a three-foot-high ramp of snow on Saturday night, built by demonstrators to encircle the police building.

Widow Patricia Stewart fell down her front steps in Bainsford, near Falkirk when she went to collect a parcel and shouted to the postman to help - but he told her he was 'knackered' and walked off.

Melissa DeRosa, Andrew Cuomo's top aide, confessed in a call last week that New York's rules on holding nursing homes to account were not stringent enough.

A mischievous pet cat has died after bravely fighting off Australia's most deadly snake to protect two young children.

The Western Australian Liberal party has accused the state's Premier Mark McGowan of basing his response to the Covid-19 pandemic on his own political agenda rather than science.

The Richmond Tigers coach has spoken about his marriage split for the the first time in an interview on Melbourne breakfast radio, admitting the last few months hadn't been easy.

Australians who shifted to working from home during 2020 should keep in regular contact with their bosses if they want their career to stay healthy, experts have warned. 

The massive reptile which appeared to be a python was seen slithering across Shute Harbour Road in Airlie Beach, in Queensland's Whitsundays on Saturday morning.

Rigoberto Lopez, 21, was taken into custody Saturday night. Police sources said Lopez was charged on Sunday with murder and attempted murder after confessing to four attacks.

The 17-year-old mother and her 18-year-old boyfriend appeared in family court on Monday where they fought to regain custody of their eight-month-old son.

Take away the political spin served up by Dan Andrews and questions remain over the need for the lockdown and his Government's handling of the crisis.

Mothers are allowed 18 weeks of leave with minimum wage, but fathers are only allowed two weeks, and charities like UNICEF and Parents at Work want both to have at least 18.

Duden, which is similar to the Oxford English Dictionary, has scrapped the masculine form of nouns to be used by German speakers to describe whole professions.

The case of a 17-year-old charged with murdering a Brisbane couple in a crash on Australia Day has been brought before a court again, but media have been shut out of the proceedings.

Bill Cassidy joined in with two Dems calling for a 9/11-style commission to investigate the January 6 Capitol riot - as he insisted Sunday Trump 'wanted lawmakers to be intimated' by the mob.

Adelaide suburbs are being terrorised by gangs of 'eshays' as more and more teenagers start to embrace the 'mindless crimes' of the violent subculture.

Maraj was knocked truck down in Mineola, New York, on Friday night while walking along the side of the road. The driver then fled the scene and is on the run from cops

The ten-acre property hidden in the mountains above the Coachella Valley played host to Rat Pack parties. Celebrities were flown in to enjoy the nine bedroom home by helicopter.

Melbourne residents have witnessed the breathtaking moment a meteor 'exploded' in the night sky during their snap Covid lockdown.

In the Snowy Mountains, the southwest New South Wales, lies the Yarrangobilly caves - a sprawling system of astonishing rock tunnels that formed about 440 million years ago.  

Melissa Caddick 'absolutely' had help if she fled Australia despite the borders being slammed shut, the police commissioner has said.

If developers get their way, there won't be much left of the Belgravia building where the Prince first set eyes on the woman who was, eventually, to become his second wife - Camilla.

Brittany Higgins was 24 years old when she was allegedly raped by a colleague inside Parliament House in March 2019.

A member of the LAPD reported that fellow officers were sharing a 'Valentines' image of George Floyd, captioned: 'You take my breath away'. Floyd died after he was suffocated by Minneapolis police in May.

Michael Lichaa, 27, allegedly came to blows with old Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs teammate Adam Elliott at a home in Sydney's south, in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The Porsche driver accused of filming a dying police officer after a horrific crash that killed four officers will plead guilty to charges next month. 

A man has died in an explosion in Melbourne on Monday afternoon. 

Robert Xie has lost his appeal against his murder convictions for bludgeoning five relatives to death and will spend life in prison.

Northern Territory will double how many Australians it can accommodate in hotel quarantine after the Victorian premier suggested they shouldn't be allowed to travel home.

Lindsey Graham said President Trump's impeachment trial set such a bad precedent that the House GOP will go after Vice President Kamala Harris for her Black Lives Matter support.

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy said Sunday that Republicans were 'deathly afraid' to vote against Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial due to his prevailing influence over the GOP.

Barnardos Australia was targeted by several media outlets earlier this week after the charity announced plans to axe its annual accolade indefinitely, which has run for a quarter of a century. 

Australia's first 142,000 does of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine have arrived in the country, with hospitals on standby to start delivering jabs next week. 

In a heated press conference, Daniel Andrews defended plunging about 6.4million Victorian residents into lockdown again after being bombarded with questions from Leigh Sales.

Trump's animated defense attorney Michael van der Veen angrily stormed out of his interview with a CBS News reporter on Saturday after mimicking her and claiming she 'didn't understand the case.'

Rep. Stacey Plaskett continued to defend Democrats turnaround on witnesses, which created several hours of drama during the conclusion of President Trump's second impeachment trial.

SNL is facing backlash after it's Weekend Update hosts failed to mention allegations that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's office covered up thousands of COVID-19 nursing home deaths.

Adrian Esterman, a professor of biostatistics, said all returning Australians should not be allowed in until quarantine workers and the vulnerable have been vaccinated.

Jim Churchley was fishing on the Corroboree Billabong in Darwin on February 8 when he spotted the crocodile scaling a tree trunk.

Bryan Brown, 73, on Monday said the flimsy tale was made all the more implausible by the fact he and his wife do not actually live on Sydney's Northern Beaches.

Kyle James Henk Daniels, 22, was ordered to undergo a retrial after a jury was unable to reach a verdict on 21 of the 26 charges initially laid against him by the NSW Police.

Axios reporter Alexi McCammond, 27, and disgraced former White House Deputy Press Secretary TJ Ducklo, 32, claim they were open with their bosses about their relationship.

The golfer was trying to unwind over the weekend on the picturesque course of Woolgoolga RSL Golf Club in Perth but a mob of sleeping roos got in the way and he tried in vain to shoo them away.

A car driver narrowly avoided being smashed into on a railway track after failing to check if a train was coming in both directions. Video shows him pulling out in front of a train.

'No benefits': Prime Minister Scott Morrison moved a step closer to scrapping controversial Victoria's Belt and Road agreement with China, sending a blunt message on its future.

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton boarded the RAAF VIP jet from Brisbane before landing in Wynyard, northern Tasmania, on July 15, 2018, during the 2018 local by-election campaign

A heart-shaped sign for the romantic holiday was among the zucchinis at Woolworths in Currambine, north of Perth, and read, 'For your Valentine'.

NSW Agriculture Minister Adam Marshall imitated his federal Nationals counterpart at a heroes and villains costume party on Saturday night.

A 'love triangle fight' between two NRL stars has landed one in hospital with severe cuts after police were called to a 'domestic disturbance' in the early hours of the morning.  

Christian Revival Church Pastor Paul Furlong was fined $1652 and could face incitement charges for leading the service in the middle of Melbourne's lockdown.

The pictures shows the native Australian arachnid, which while scary looking is harmless to humans, appearing to guard the expensive packet of cigarettes below.

The Australian government has been examining ways to permanently increase the Jobseeker rate when the $150 a fortnight coronavirus supplement ends on March 31.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison shared the sweet photo to his Facebook page in a Valentine's Day tribute, taken when they were teenagers and first started dating.

Faith Reeves, from Queensland's Lockyer Valley, thought she had the perfect family. But behind closed doors, her husband was secretly sexually abusing their daughter.

Victoria was plunged into a stage four lockdown at 11.59pm on Friday night after the highly-infectious UK strain of coronavirus leeched from a hotel quarantine facility.

Omar Elomar, 18, died after he was shot in the chest on Cabramatta Avenue at Miller, south-west Sydney, on February 15, 2020, and police released CCTV footage of a suspicious car.

Amazon has launched an information campaign aimed at dissuading its Employees at the BHM1 fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama from forming a union.

The Duke of Rutland expressed shock that no officers involved in Operation Midland have faced disciplinary or criminal proceedings.

ANZ is shutting 19 branches in NSW, Victoria and Queensland and more than 100 bank staff are expected to lose their jobs, the employees' union says.

Joanna Zielinksi, 62, was arrested on Thursday in Naples, Florida, and charged with misdemeanor domestic battery for her attack on her sister Laura, 64.

Australia's first 80,000 doses of the Covid Pfizer vaccine are about to arrive in the country, with hospitals on standby to start delivering jabs next week.

Officials said the rest of New Zealand will also be placed under stringent restrictions but will avoid another shutdown after an Auckland mother, father and daughter tested positive for the virus.

Barack and Michelle Obama took to social media on Sunday morning to share heartwarming Valentine's Day messages to each other.