A Hong Kong property tycoon is making a bid to build a new city for 50,000 Hong Kong residents in Ireland to help them escape China's new security law. Ivan Ko has pitched his plans to Ireland officials in light of Hong Kong's controversial new legislation which has left many …...Read More

Dr Richard Van Groningen, 57, arriving at Chelmsford Magistrates Court yesterday A Royal London Hospital neurosurgeon amassed a horrific hoard of extreme child porn and animal abuse images - including dogs, pigs and eels - over 15 years. Dr Richard Van Groningen, 57, admitted to possessing more than 1,480 pieces …...Read More

This is the shocking moment an angler tries to stop a seal getting caught on his fishing line by throwing a glass beer bottle at it. The incident took place earlier this week on a headland at Torquay, Devon, where members of the conservation charity Seal Project were in the …...Read More

Advertisement Holidays to Spain may be off the agenda for the foreseeable future - but the warm Iberian weather is coming to the UK instead. Would-be travellers forced to cancel trips will be able to console themselves as back gardens, beaches and parks become hotter than the Balearic Islands. Temperatures …...Read More

[music] michael barbaro From The New York Times, I’m Michael Barbaro. This is “The Daily.” Today: A fight has erupted among congressional Republicans over how long and how generously government should help the unemployed during the pandemic. Nick Fandos on what that battle is really about. It’s Tuesday, July 28. …...Read More

Headteachers could be sued for 'irrationally' forcing pupils to wear face masks when schools reopen fully in September. The policy could be challenged with a judicial review for being 'manifestly absurd', a law firm said today, while a parents' campaign vowed to join any legal action. At least ten schools …...Read More

Advertisement Ministers don't need to panic yet about rising coronavirus cases in Britain, leading experts insisted today after it was revealed that Boris Johnson fears a second wave could start within a fortnight. A senior government source told the Mail the Prime Minister was 'extremely concerned' by outbreaks 'bubbling up' …...Read More

A disease-modeling system like that used by the National Weather Service to predict storms is needed, said Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Right now, the country has surveillance for seasonal flu but no national map tracking all disease outbreaks. As Dr. Thomas R. …...Read More

Many shoppers and workers say the retailers’ reluctance to police their customers’ mask wearing ultimately renders the new rules toothless and will perpetuate the spread of the coronavirus. And workers find themselves thrust onto the front line of a cultural and political war over masks that can lead to ugly …...Read More

When Rodney King was on the ground, getting kicked, hit with batons and shot with Tasers by several members of the Los Angeles Police Department in 1991, the episode was captured on video by a man who lived across the street from the attack and happened to have a new …...Read More