WHETHER you're spending a day at the beach or running through the park in the summer heat, chafing is one of the downsides of warm weather. Brits are set to bake this week as temperatures are predicted to reach 34C, but the hot weather means more sweat, which could cause sore painful chub rub. While […]

A SECOND coronavirus stimulus payment could be approved by Congress on August 8. The Senate is currently debating another stimulus package – the $3trillion HEROES Act – that could give families up to $6,000. Congress is currently debating the bill – but if approved, it may happen by August 8. August 8 is the last day the […]

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Calls for Brazil’s military to close Congress and the Supreme Court have screamed from banners at marches attended by President Jair Bolsonaro in recent weeks, but retired generals and close observers of the armed forces call it empty talk. A defender of Brazil’s 1964 military coup and the two decades of dictatorship […]

A NEW “do it yourself” coronavirus saliva test is to be piloted this week and could be the first step towards mass testing for Covid-19. The “no swab” weekly testing model is being rolled out in Southampton and participants will be asked to take the test at home. ⚠️ Read our coronavirus live blog for […]

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian officials tried to contain a fresh outbreak of the novel coronavirus on Monday, telling residents in the cluster hotspots to avoid travel outside their suburbs in Melbourne, the country’s second-largest city. Victoria state of which Melbourne is the capital has recorded double digit rises in new COVID-19 infections, accounting for nearly […]

STRUGGLING Brits on benefits should get an extra £20 a week to help them weather the coronavirus storm, a group of MPs have demanded. Politicians on the influential DWP committee said that people who are old the old system – including millions of disabled people and carers – get the same £20 a week boost […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson will unveil the latest easing of Britain’s coronavirus lockdown on Tuesday when he will also announce the conclusion of a review into whether a two-metre rule on social distancing should be relaxed, his office said. Britain’s economy has been hammered by the lockdown to stop the spread of […]

Florida breaks its single-day record for coronavirus Friday with 4,049 new cases after reopening the state as US reports its highest numbers since May 1 with 30,000 new infections across the nation The coronavirus outbreak continued its fevered escalation in Florida Saturday  Gov. Ron DeSantis again tried to calms fears over another record-breaking spike in […]

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germany’s coronavirus reproduction rate jumped to 2.88 on Sunday, up from 1.79 a day earlier, health authorities said, a rate showing infections are rising above the level needed to contain the disease over the longer term. The rise brings with it the possibility of renewed restrictions on activity in Europe’s largest economy […]

One of the four former Minneapolis cops charged in the murder of George Floyd was accosted by a fellow shopper during a recent supermarket trip, viral video of the run-in shows. J. Alexander Keung, freed Friday evening on $750,000 bail, was stocking up at a Cub Foods in the Minneapolis suburb of Plymouth when another […]