Critics have claimed the £900,000 red, white and blue paint job on the Prime Minister's RAF Voyager plane has been bungled. Enthusiasts said they thought the Union Flag on its tailfin had been done upside down as Boris Johnson's official aircraft took off from Cambridgeshire yesterday. Social media users were …...Read More

It is 'touch and go' as to whether local Covid-19 outbreaks can be controlled, a top World Health Organization (WHO) official warned today. Yesterday the UN agency revealed Europe has seen a dramatic surge in coronavirus cases since lockdown easing measures began. Dr David Nabarro, a WHO special envoy, told …...Read More

A protective mother bear jumped out and attacked a car to stop her cub being run over by an Uber during a night-time drive. A flash of the large animals eyes can be seen in the distance as the car veers onto the other side of the road in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, …...Read More

The doomed Pakistan International Airbus A320 which crashed in May was seen on CCTV scraping along the runway at Karachi airport after its pilots 'forgot' to put its wheels down for landing. The airliner plunged into a residential neighbourhood in Pakistan's capital city, killing 97 of the 99 people on …...Read More

A former crime scene technician who murdered her friend was 'flirty and playful' with police officers as they interrogated her about whereabouts of missing woman. The body of former policewoman Taylor Wright, 33, was discovered on a remote Florida farm after she had been shot in the back of her …...Read More

What lies off Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, in the Coral Sea? The region was mostly unexplored and uncharted until a recent expedition searched its dark waters, uncovering an abundance of life, weird geologic features and spectacular deep corals. The deepest forays reached down more than a mile. The expedition was …...Read More

During the lockdown, millions of Latino workers kept a bare-bones economy running: at the cutting tables of food-processing plants, as farm hands, as hospital orderlies, food preparers, supermarket workers and in many other jobs deemed essential. And they brought the virus home to often cramped living quarters, compounding the spread. …...Read More

“Governments are going to have to look at how they can reallocate money,” said Harry Reid, the former Senate majority leader. “Of course it’s a good idea if we have more social services rather than police because police are to be our guardians rather than warriors. There are a lot …...Read More

Mr. Biden’s eventual choice is certain to face intensive scrutiny, in part because of Mr. Biden’s age. If he is elected, Mr. Biden, currently 77, would be the oldest president ever on the day of his inauguration, and he would turn 80 about halfway through his term, a reality that …...Read More

“Obviously, this was a crisis-based launch, so we’ve been trying to get our bearings,” Ms. Miller said. “It hasn’t made up for lost revenue; we’ve had a significant financial hit.” Ms. Miller had to lay off a few of her staff members who ran the co-working and child care services. …...Read More