At least three people, including a six-year-old, have been confirmed dead after Russian warplanes bombed a maternity hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol as women gave birth inside.

Russia and Ukraine's meeting is the highest-level diplomatic encounter since the Kremlin launched a full-scale operation to 'demilitarise' and 'de-Nazify' the country.

'They want us to feel like animals because they blocked our cities, the biggest cities in Ukraine and they blocked them because they don't want our people to get some food or water,' he said.

An economic shock worse than the 1973 oil crisis is looming for the UK amid fears prices could hit $240 a barrel this summer, MPs said last night.

The wreck of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance has been found 107 years after it became trapped in sea ice and sank off the coast of Antarctica.

Huw Merriman, Tory chairman of the Commons transport committee said: 'Far too many drivers are still waiting far too long to have their licences processed. The situation is urgent.'

RICHARD EDEN: Marianne Faithfull is living at Denville Hall, the retirement home where the likes of film-maker Lord Attenborough and star Andrew Sachs faced their final curtain call.

Royal Holloway and Birkbeck, both colleges of the University of London, are facing calls to remove John Bercow from his appointments at the institutions.

Almost 1,000 primary school teachers and senior staff in the UK were surveyed by the polling group YouGov for the early years foundation Kindred2.

Shane Warne's coffin has been lovingly draped with an Australian flag as the legendary spin-bowler begins his final voyage home, with the 52-year-old's body due to land in Melbourne on Thursday.

Lawyer Udeme Otike-Odibi, 47, is accused of murdering 50-year-old Sym Otike-Odibi, at their home in Sangotedo, Lekki, Lagos, on May 2 last year.

Alexander McLellan, 54, who was a family liaison officer with Northumbria Police, sexually abused a young boy after being sent to support the victim's grieving family.

The video, filmed this morning in the town of Irpin on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital, shows several Russian tanks and over a dozen soldiers slowly trundling through a residential area.

The musician, 37, is facing a possible six-month jail sentence for assaulting his former fiancee who is also the mother of his two children.

Author Simon James Green had been due to talk to pupils at The John Fisher School in Purley, south London, about his novel Noah Can't Even, which features a gay character.

Ivan Mishchenko, a member of Ukraine's supreme court, said London lawyers should 'never, ever have Russian clients again'.

Mia Minchin, now 20, has spoken out about her experience for the first time during an appearance on ITV Tonight - Louise Minchin: The Truth About Stalking, which airs on Thursday.

EXCLUSIVE BY SAMI MOKBEL: In a heartfelt statement to Sportsmail, John vowed to 'grow as a leader' and insisted it was never her intention to make a colleague feel intimidated.

Mike Ockelford, 59, got into an argument with the staff at the Basildon of Sainsburys after taking the Russian Standard vodka from the shelves.

Visas for at least 20 patients are being fast-tracked to allow them to come to the UK for life-saving care after the scheme was signed off by Health Secretary Sajid Javid on Wednesday.

Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, refused three times to offer a definition of what a woman is, saying she was not going to go down a 'rabbit hole'.

A male-dominated panel of councillors found Lisa Townsend had not been 'dignified or respectful' to trans people when she supported Rowling's view that biologically male rapists were not female.

The Tory stalwart, 90, made his final appearance in the House of Lords on Wednesday as he bid farewell to Westminster after more than five decades in politics.

Kraft Heinz announced its £140m investment plan at Kitt Green in Wigan in July 2021 which was praised at the time as 'a strong vote of confidence' in the UK and a key part of Number 10's 'levelling up agenda.'

Two abattoir workers from Bristol were today accused of torturing two acquaintances before stabbing them to death and mutilating their bodies.

Plans to name three rooms at the £50m Swansea Arena after Labour councillors was slammed by opposition parties who called it 'vanity gone mad'

Speaking to OK! , Duncan Larcombe - author of Prince Harry: The Inside Story - said the Duke of Cambridge, 39, and the Duke of Sussex, 37, 'both have a lot of regret'.

Ian Kirwan, 53, from Redditch in Worcestershire, died after being stabbed at around 7.20pm outside the Asda supermarket on Jinnah Road on March 8.

A perfectly preserved first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone left untouched on a shelf for 25 years has fetched a whopping £69,000 at auction today.

Villagers from one of Britain's slowest areas for broadband like Stuart Marsh (inset) are calling for BT to speed up their connection - as it takes 17 hours to watch a movie.

Boris Johnson dodged calls from Labour for more assistance to struggling families when Rishi Sunak delivers the Spring statement on March 23.

Earlier in the day, the Prince of Wales, 73, visited Holy Trinity Brompton at St Luke's Church to learn of the work the organisation is doing to support refugees and asylum seekers.

Robert Foote, 67, had been working as a volunteer race marshal when a car spun off the track in West Kingsdown, Kent and hit him on July 31 last year.

Dane Messam, 52, killed Helen Anderson, 41, before driving the double-decker bus they had lived on across the southeast of England to find a suitable spot to dump her body in Surrey.

Dimitry Tsvetkov, 41, claimed that the offices of top-level lawyers and financial advisors in London are 'crammed' with rich Russians exploring ways to swerve sanctions.

The BBC football pundit made the comment in response to a Spectator article titled 'Eight embarrassed Bercow backers', which was shared by Andrew Neil.

Karl Soames, 26, fractured his lover's eye socket in his Notting Hill home during a domestic argument in August 2019. He admitted the offence at Isleworth Crown Court

Jennifer Mbazira, 50, from Clapham, south-west London, sent menacing emails to the man, who she believed to be a billionaire.

A bright border collie called Pepper (pictured left), 2, managed to get a bus home by herself after getting lost chasing some geese while out on a walk in Hertfordshire.

Experts have found rates of dementia are 11 times lower among the indigenous hunter-gatherer Tsimane community in the Bolivian Amazon, compared to westerners.

Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia and Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al Nahyan of the U.A.E. have both refused to speak to Joe Biden as the White House tries to find alternatives to Russian oil.

Laura Clarke, the fiancee of Sunderland AFC's former boss Stewart Donald has won over £150,000 compensation suing her surgeon after her cut-price foreign boob job went wrong.

Young dentist Sajid Patel was pulled over for speeding by police officers in Bolton when they noticed a smell of cannabis and gave him a roadside drug test which he then failed.

Ramridge Primary School, in Luton, has been slammed by parents over a Science Week activity which involved setting up a realistic crime scene with a bloodstained child-like mannequin

Catriona Robinson told an employment tribunal that while she was talking to a suicidal woman on the phone, co-workers carried on laughing and swearing in the background at Mind Monmouthshire in Wales.

One high-ranking North Korean official said Ukraine would never have been attacked if it had kept its cache of Soviet nuclear weapons, while another said only nuked prevent foreign invasions.

Paula Hudgell, of Kings Hill in West Malling, Kent, fostered baby Tony in February 2015 after he was admitted to hospital with a catalogue of appalling injuries - inflicted by his biological parents.

The ONS revealed 3.6 million Brits aged 20 to 34 were living at home with their parents in 2021, 28 per cent of the entire age group. In 2011, the number was just 24 per cent.

Dr Raied Haris escaped a striking off despite 'abusing his professional position' at at a locum GP in the out-of-hours service in Morecambe and the Minor Injuries Unit at Leeds General Infirmary.

Birkenhead carer, Nicola Brimage (pictured), 32, blew an elderly woman's savings on Amazon and eBay shopping sprees and managed to avoid jailtime after a guilty plea.

A court has heard a Qatari media boss repeatedly raped a woman and beat her until his hands hurt in his £1.5million flat in Paddington.

The cab dropped off a fare in Marsden, near Huddersfield on Saturday night when the driver's sat nav offered him a shortcut along a track across Saddleworth Moor back towards Manchester.

The campaign group said it intends to 'stop the harm at the source' as part of its campaign to force the UK Government to stop the fossil fuel economy.

Kathleen Walsham mourned her late husband at an East London cemetery for 27 years until she found out his ashes had actually been buries in Essex, a London County Court has heard.

The suspect, aged in her 60s, was held by Metropolitan Police officers yesterday in Westminster in an apparent breakthrough in the investigation into the death of Martine Vik Magnussen.

The First Minister marked International Women's Day by issuing the historical apology for those who were accused, convicted, vilified or executed under the Scottish Witchcraft Act of 1563.

Labour's David Lammy has insisted he is not embarrassed over previously describing John Bercow as an 'inter-galactic hero'.

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Abramovich is worth 10.4bn ($12.5bn), according to Forbes, and owns a £150m Kensington mansion, a £22m West London penthouse, and more than £1.2bn of yachts.

The body of the Australian cricket legend has arrived home at Melbourne's Essendon Airport, six days after his shock death in Thailand.

Roman Abramovich is among oligarch to be hit with asset freeze and travel bans under the UK sanctions.

KitKat lovers from the UK, Australia and the US have shared their disappointment at biting into the chocolate-coated biscuit bar only to find the wafer replaced by solid chocolate.

Victorian Labor senator Kimberley Kitching has died. 

Dennis, 74, who has three children with ex-wife Lisa, purchased the land in Berkshire shortly after selling his shares in McLaren for £275 million in 2017.

Marksman known as 'Wali', 40, left behind a wife and baby son to join the war. Wali doesn't just shoot with his weapon, he also takes his camera to document the people and places he comes across.

A new licence allows the club to continue playing all its fixtures due to its status as a 'significant cultural asset', but only season ticket holders will be allowed to attend games.

Hilarious home footage captures the moment sneaky pooch Delta jumped up to a kitchen counter and stole a steak while her owners weren't looking at a house in Fort Worth, Texas, on March 6.

Musk was criticizing ESG, a checklist of 'environmental, social and governance' criteria companies are supposed to keep in mind when making decisions about what to invest in.

A 44-year-old trainee nurse who switched careers after being a stone mason has helped save a toddler after he heard the screams of the infant's mother on his route to work.

Hattie Atkinson Smith (pictured), 27, was terrified when she was attacked by a giant, escaped owl in Norwich which swooped on her ponytail and 'tried to eat her'.

In a bid to protect the nation's forests and wildlife, the two popular supermarket chains will stop selling disposable barbecues because of their 'risk to our natural habitat'.

MAILONLINE LIVEBLOG: Follow MailOnline's liveblog for all the updates on the crisis in Ukraine today as Vladimir Putin's Russian invasion of the country enters its second week.

Western officials fear Ukraine's neighbour Moldova and Russia's neighbour Georgia could be some of the most vulnerable to a Russian invasion.

James Heappey said the West is gathering evidence that can be used in a future prosecution, but added in interviews: 'What you see on your TV screens is a war crime.'

Britain's Ministry of Defence and Ukrainian newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda both reported that Russia had confirmed using a thermobaric bomb in Chernihiv, 80 miles north of Kyiv.

He and shadow defence secretary John Healey have travelled to the Baltic state on day 15 of the war in Ukraine to meet soldiers in the Tapa military base.

The satellites will provide real-time information on the military actions carried out by the US and its allies of South Korea, Japan and other Pacific nations, state media said.

Valet Brian Riley, 26, stole a £2,000 engagement ring, opal earrings and an opal pendant from the room of two guests staying at Cottons Hotel and Spa in Knutsford, Cheshire. The ring was never recovered

The beach-side mansion covers three acres and boasts a wraparound deck, a gym, a tennis court, a pool deck, a spa area, a cabana, four bedrooms and five bathrooms.

Human rights advocate and lawyer Julian Burnside shared a scathing tweet about Adelaide's popular Shobosho restaurant upon finding out his dinner plans had been changed last weekend.

The execution-style killing of Sydney underworld figure Mejid Hamzy was allegedly contracted by a former high ranking outlaw bikie boss now living in the Middle East, police have alleged.

A catalogue of failures by Network Rail and disgraced outsourcing giant Carillion caused the fatal Stonehaven train disaster, a damning investigation announced today.

Daily Mail Australia revealed on Wednesday that the world's greatest ever spin bowler had never officially been honoured by his country while he was living.

A body has been discovered on a popular beach on the Central Coast, with police now investigating.

Keighley Whyte, 27, was caught on council CCTV driving a Fiat Punto next to Manchester City's stadium on June 11, 2020, after lockdown was eased. She has pleaded guilty to fly-tipping.

The Australian Reptile Park has reported an increase in home sightings of funnel webs during the floods, along with a surge in the number of the creatures donated to their antivenom program.

In 2005, so little was known about Terry Peabody, that he was referred to as 'the only Australian billionaire who is not a household name'. Seventeen years later, he still isn't.

After two years of border closures pushing airfare prices sky high, Russia's invasion of Ukraine is set to cause a further 15 per cent spike in the cost of a plane ticket, warn industry experts..

Radio giant Ray Hadley has suffered a 3.5 per cent hit to his audience since taking a hardline stance on Covid rules and criticising NSW premier Dominic Perrottet for relaxing restrictions.

Rachel Naomi Perri, 48, was sentenced to six years jail in December after making 475 fraudulent transactions totalling $940,221.47 from her employer Tasmanian Veterinary Services.

The Labor leader blasted China for its friendship with Russia amid Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, its military build-up in the South China Sea and what he called a 'takeover' of Hong Kong.

Shane Warne was a keen property flipper and created a multi-million dollar real estate portfolio in Melbourne. The legendary cricketer bought and renovated several impressive homes.

Sotrovimab, one of the main medicines used to treat patients with severe cases of Covid-19 is causing a mutated strain of the virus.

Comedian Glenn Robbins, boxing legend Jeff Fenech, and former teammate Damien Fleming paid tribute to Shane Warne on Wednesday after the cricket legend's untimely death in Thailand.

It comes hours after Pelosi abruptly yanked $15.6 billion in COVID-19 pandemic relief from the bill funding the federal government after her own Democrats rebelled over how it was being paid for.

Trump joined the Full Send podcast on Wednesday where he also teased a potential White House re-election bid and again claimed Russia's invasion of Ukraine would not have happened on his watch.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge George Lomeli on Wednesday ruled Gareth Pursehouse, 43, has to stand trial for the February 15, 2020 death of Amie Harwick.

The career criminal and brother of Kings Cross identity John Ibrahim was driven to Sydney Airport from prison after serving a five-year jail sentence for conspiring to supply firearms.

A high-profile teacher at a Sydney private school arrested over his alleged role in an online child abuse ring recently gave a seminar talking about 'kindness in schools'.

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce started to rattle off a list of random countries and ramble about wheat and barley exports after he was questioned on Thursday.

Alexandra Davis, who lives in Washington D.C., filed a lawsuit against billionaire Jerry Jones, 79, last week, claiming he paid her mother, Cynthia Davis Spenser, $375,000 to keep quiet about their affair.

Video shows wounded patients and nurses being evacuated from the hospital in Mariupol and pregnant women being carried out on stretchers into a courtyard covered in rubble and craters.

Russian defence ministry spokesperson admitted that 'we have uncovered several instances of the presence of conscripts in the Russian units taking part in the special military operation in Ukraine.'

Jack Gregory, 25, filmed the base jumper leaping off a 300ft chimney in Croydon, south London on Thursday, March 3. He said three others had made the leap before he captured the last one.

The 2021 Australian of the Year revealed more details of the call she got from a government-funded organisation while addressing a packed audience at the Adelaide Writer's Festival.

A well-known serial dater who was found naked inside his car after crashing into a concrete barrier has finally broken his silence following his trial.

Renee Ferguson is seeking nearly $1 million in damages from Cricket Tasmania, alleging she was sexually harassed by four employees, including ex-captain Tim Paine, between 2015 and 2017.

Owner Conde Nast is stopping operations for its magazines in the country, which also include GQ, Tatler and Glamour. The firm said the decision was made after new Russian censorship laws.

The Parental Rights in Education bill, dubbed the 'Don't Say Gay' bill by critics, was passed by Florida's GOP-dominated Senate on Tuesday and will now head to Ron DeSantis' desk.

NRMA reports thousands of calls from motorists with vehicles damaged by potholes. The torrential downpour has destroyed Sydney roadways with repairs to begin once wet weather subsides.

The usually sapphire-blue waters of Sydney Harbour were turned a muddy shade of brown on Wednesday after two weeks of heavy rain and floods.

A Ukrainian soldier thanked 'the gifts from Her Majesty The Queen' after destroying a Russian tank with a British-supplied missile - and even asked for more to be sent to the war-torn nation.

Jen Psaki condemned Kremlin accusations that the US was building a bioweapons lab in Ukraine and pointed out that it was Putin who had a history of using such methods to take out his enemies.

Jill Biden stopped at Fort Campbell in Kentucky to thank military families whose loved ones have been deployed to NATO countries amid Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

Boys-only Prince Alfred College in Adelaide will break free from tradition and allow a student transitioning from male to female to stay on and complete Year 12.

Sarah Mudge, 31, went into Stanley Obi's house in New Beith, in Brisbane's southern suburbs, just before 3am on Thursday and tried to burn him, his new lover and three young children alive.

The House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection has subpoenaed Salesforce to try and obtain email information from the RNC, to see if they profited from or sparked the riot.

Kyiv could be just hours away from a 'horrific' Russian assault, as Western officials warn that Putin's forces are 'tightening the noose' around the Ukrainian capital.

China backs a Russian conspiracy accusing the U.S. of operating labs in Ukraine to create biological weapons as a way to retroactively justify President Vladimir Putin's now-14-day attack.

Flood watch cameras in south-east Queensland filmed the inundation of several major roads in the Lockyer Valley. The footage showed how quickly floodwaters rose before slowly draining,

Eighty people are in hospital with the virus, including three who are in intensive care. Around 50 per cent of those in hospital with Covid in WA are unvaccinated.

Two high-ranking prosecutors are alleging LA District Attorney George Gascon demoted them for complaining about policies.

NSW transport warned public transport users to stay away from the trains for the rest of the week, as crews work to ensure the safety of the network.

A video captures the moment an unsuspecting Australian man is struck on the foot by a tiger snake while working from home. The slithering serpent strikes causing a fright then quickly darts off

Daily Mail Australia last week reported on a push by some Australian shoppers for supermarkets to change the dish's name to reflect the Ukrainian spelling, and Woolworths took notice.

New audio shows the pilot of Donald Trump's borrowed plane discussing with air traffic control in New Orleans making an emergency landing after engine failure on Saturday night.

A woman is dead and three children were taken to hospital after a home was believed to have been fire bombed in the early hours of the morning.

Gigi Hadid, 26, left, announced on Sunday that she would donate her earnings from fall fashion shows to 'those suffering' in Ukraine and Palestine, but a Vogue post about it omitted Palestine.

Thousands of palm-sized Joro spiders, a species from East Asia known as Tricho nephila, could soon invade the East Coast, a study from the University of Georgia shows, after taking the South by storm.

Residents of NSW are being urged to protect themselves from mosquito bites after the confirmation of a fourth case of Japanese encephalitis.

A police officer in the strike force investigating William Tyrrell's disappearance has alleged the missing toddler's foster father has been caught out 'lying about something we can prove'.

The Ukrainian Embassy's Chargé d`Affaires Volodymyr Shalkivskyvi revealed the four vital steps he wants Scott Morrison to take in fight against Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin.

The housing industry believes home ownership should be made a priority whoever wins the federal election due in May.

Sydney-based Russians have repeatedly gathered outside the embassy in Woollahra in the city's east to show their support for Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk blasted the Prime Minister for only funding three out of 20 flood mitigation measures she had proposed since November 2020.

Hillsong former pastor Brian Houston will face a three-week hearing later this year, where NSW police will argue he concealed evidence against his father, Frank.

Harvey Marcelin 83,, who was convicted of killing two women in 1963 and 1983, was arrested for allegedly killing and dismembering a 68-year-old woman in Brooklyn last week.

RICHARD PENDLEBURY: Twenty minutes remain until the 'humanitarian' ceasefire ends. Anxiety is mounting. I want to leave here. But we must witness the inhumanity that is still taking place.

Supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths have dramatically increased the price of soft drinks during the past year, with consumers now paying a lot more for Fanta and Coca-Cola.

Match Group, Tinder's parent company, said the new safety center feature would surface arrests and convictions for certain violent crimes and sex offender registry status on the app.

NSW police have dropped all charges against friendlyjordies producer Kristo Langker after accusing him of stalking former deputy premier John Barilaro.

After four-and-a-half weeks, the jury has retired to consider the evidence in the trial of NT Constable Zachary Rolfe after he was accused of fatally shooting Aboriginal teenager Kumanjayi Walker.

The signs of an Australian property market downturn are already emerging from longer selling times to lower auction clearance rates. Now a majority of Australians think now is a bad time to buy.

Pavni Diwanji, who joined Meta in 2020, has 'decided to move on' from the company, said Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri in an internal memo obtained by The New York Times on Wednesday.

Amber Briggle says she is under investigation for child abuse in wake of a Texas order to investigate reports of gender-transitioning procedures. She has advocated for her trans son his entire life.

Since February 28, three days after the NSW mask mandates were relaxed, Covid cases have shot up from 5,856 to Thursday's total of 16,288, up another 3,000 from Wednesday, as a new mutation emerges.

Readers young and old have been donating their hard earned money, whether it's £10, £20, £50 or £100, as they support our Ukraine Refugee Appeal in a truly humbling display of generosity.

Home Secretary Priti Patel is expected to bow to pressure and fix the shambolic refugee scheme amid reports that the Prime Minister is losing faith in her handling of the crisis.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Ever since Tony Blair, as prime minister, cynically flung open Britain's doors to all comers, this country has had a fraught relationship with immigration.

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES: Mortuary workers dug trenches 25m long in Mariupol, and made the sign of the cross as they pushed dead bodies wrapped in carpet or bags into mass graves.