France is recording more than 1,000 coronavirus cases per day for the first time since May - but denies it is in the midst of a second wave. French health officials announced 1,377 new cases last night, bringing the seven-day average up to 1,025 while Spain and Germany have also …...Read More

A Iceland food distribution centre in Wiltshire has suffered a coronavirus outbreak with 51 workers becoming infected. Some 21 employees at the depot in Swindon tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday, on top of another 30 who were confirmed to have the virus on Wednesday. Food is handled at the XPO …...Read More

The brave crew of an RAF Chinook helicopter are lucky to be alive after hitting countryside power lines on a war games exercise. Dramatic pictures show the damage to the giant chopper after it hit power cables in a sleepy country village in Wales - and crash landed in a …...Read More

The C.D.C. has sent about $11 billion in relief funds to states and local jurisdictions for expanding coronavirus testing and contact tracing. A survey of state health departments by National Public Radio last month found they had roughly 37,000 contact tracers in place, with an additional 31,000 in reserve for …...Read More

KEY WEST, Fla. — Rachel Kobylas longs for the days when her job as a code enforcement officer in the laid-back Florida town of Key West meant that she drove around making sure people turned off noisy power tools after 7 p.m. She went after overgrown grass, unpermitted construction and …...Read More

Nothing in the Constitution gives President Trump the power to delay the November election, and even fellow Republicans dismissed it out of hand when he broached it on Thursday. But that was not the point. With a possible defeat looming, the point was to tell Americans that they should not …...Read More

Dr. Espinoza and his co-authors found that Liolaemus lizards have adapted abilities to deal with the cold through three mechanisms. Some lizards avoid extreme cold by going underground. Others use a process of supercooling; by staying completely still, they can allow their bodies to drop below freezing without actually freezing …...Read More

Cities across the Middle East are experiencing heatwaves with record breaking temperatures in the regions. Baghdad in Iraq, the worst affected country, recorded its highest and second highest temperatures this week, reaching 51.7C (125F) on Tuesday and half a degree cooler on Wednesday. Towns in the south have unusally topped …...Read More

A surfer's board was bitten in half by a four-metre great white shark at a popular surfing beach in Western Australia. Emergency services were called to the Farm Break surfing spot at Bunker Bay in the state's south-west around 2.15pm on Friday. The shark bit the local man in the …...Read More

A meat-free family-of-four who spent £220 on their weekly groceries saved more than £1,000 in eight weeks simply by swapping expensive and highly processed fake meats for all natural plant-based foods instead. Skin care clinic receptionist Jena Glen, her recruitment manager husband Aaron, and their two children Louis, 18, and …...Read More