Influenza outbreaks may enable the spread of the novel coronavirus, a new European study suggests. Researchers from Belgium, Italy, Norway and Spain created a mathematical model of SARS-CoV-2 transmission during the early days of the pandemic. They found up to a 2.5-fold increase in coronavirus cases among the period in …...Read More

An 'unprecedented' number of birds have been dropping dead out of the sky at an alarming rate in New Mexico – and some experts suspect the wildfires raging across the West Coast might be to blame. The mystery first started on August 20 when hundreds of dead birds were discovered …...Read More

More than 200 marauding macaque monkeys have been castrated in Thailand after a spate of raids on homes in search of food. The primates have roamed freely into the city of Songkhla, meeting little resistance due to the coronavirus lockdown. On Tuesday, a team of wildlife conservationists rounded up the …...Read More

June, July and August of 2020 created the hottest summer ever recorded in the Northern hemisphere, according to official data. When accounting for the Southern hemisphere as well, 2020 ranks as the world's third-warmest summer since records began in 1880. From the start of June to the end of August, …...Read More

Kim Kardashian's social media posts gave armed robbers all the information they needed to carry out an £8.5million jewellery heist, one of them has admitted. Details of the 39-year-old American's slip-ups have emerged in legal papers filed in Paris, where the reality TV star was attacked at gunpoint after travelling …...Read More

A new trial is now underway for an Indiana man accused of raping and butchering his ex-girlfriend before eating parts of her body - as jurors have already been warned they will be shown crime scene photos worse than any horror film. Joseph Oberhansley's murder trial started in Clark County …...Read More

A baby boy found crying beside the body of his Ugandan asylum seeker mother in a Glasgow flat is at the centre of a looming custody battle between his father and his mother's family who want him to grow up in Africa. Sixteen-month-old Adriel was found hungry and distressed in …...Read More

This is the heartstopping moment a man leaps into the abyss at the Yosemite National Park in California's Sierra Nevada mountains. The daredevil films himself using a 360 degree camera as he jumps off a viewing platform more than 1,000 feet above the rocks below. The footage shows the man …...Read More

Rishi Sunak begged employers not to sack staff when the coronavirus furlough scheme ends next month as the Treasury revealed that almost four million workers remain on it. The Chancellor hailed the Job Retention Scheme (JRS) this afternoon amid fears of an employment cliff-edge when it ceases to cover wages …...Read More

Bill Gates no longer trusts US regulators - and questions whether the Food and Drug Administration's eventual approval of a coronavirus vaccine will mean the shot is safe. 'The FDA lost a lot of credibility,' the billionaire philanthropist told Bloomberg Television, referring to the agency's series of prematurely positive outlook …...Read More