When coronavirus first struck Britain, Boris Johnson assured the public that ‘our country remains extremely well prepared’ to cope. Among our national assets, he boasted, was a ‘fantastic testing system’. Even when the virus was at its peak in May, the Prime Minister was still in hyperbolic mode as he …...Read More

A pair of dinosaurs were sleeping in burrows some 125 million years ago when a nearby volcano erupted, sending lava down the valley and trapping them in an underground grave. The story has now been brought to life after farmers in China discovered the perfectly preserved creatures, which were an …...Read More

Engagement photoshoots, maternity photoshoots, and newborn photoshoots have all been done before, but an Oklahoma may be starting a new trend with their divorce photoshoot. When Shalena Casanova and her ex-husband split, they celebrated the conscious uncoupling with some funny professional picture. In the images, the couple stage a mock …...Read More

Sign up here to get On Politics in your inbox every weekday. It’s that most central and chaotic of swing states, home to the hanging chad, the most recent statewide Senate recount, and already more than $200 million in television and radio political advertising in 2020. We’re talking, of course, …...Read More

Mr. Biden’s speech came as Mr. Trump paid a last-minute trip to California to meet with officials struggling with the catastrophe, and disputed their assertion that there was any connection between the fires sweeping the state and climate change. The developments suggest that an issue that has always been on …...Read More

Mercedes Figueruell, a Cuban-American Trump supporter, was not swayed. “Listen, he’s a jerk and says things that I don’t like and don’t approve of,” she said of the president whom she plans to support. But she expressed concern that more Democrats seemed to have grown accepting of socialism. “This is …...Read More

Doctors having to stay off work because they can't get a test. Pleas for university scientists to help process a huge backlog of swabs. Sound familiar? Those stories dominated the headlines at the end of March. Incredibly, nearly six months on, they have resurfaced. So how did it get to …...Read More

SEATTLE — The billowing wildfire smoke that has blanketed much of the West Coast with a caustic haze also began settling into the atmosphere thousands of miles away on Tuesday. While more favorable weather has allowed firefighters to make some progress against the devastating blazes in Oregon, the crisis was …...Read More

The world of racing was in mourning on Tuesday night after the death of nine-time Irish champion jockey Pat Smullen was announced at the age of 43, Smullen, who had been battling pancreatic cancer since March 2018, died in St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin. Smullen, a 12-time European Classic winner, …...Read More

The most remarkable thing about Dennis Andrew Nilsen was that he appeared so thoroughly unremarkable. In the Old Bailey’s Court No 1 on the first day of his trial, he looked exactly what he was, a smartly dressed junior civil servant with a flat in the London suburbs and a …...Read More