BEIJING (Reuters) – Mainland China reported five new confirmed COVID-19 cases for May 16, down from eight the previous day, the National Health Commission (NHC) said in a statement on Sunday. Two of the five confirmed cases are so-called imported infections, while three are locally transmitted in northeastern Jilin Province. The number of new asymptomatic […]

BOSSES running High Speed 2 lack the skills needed to complete the £100billion rail project, a damning report reveals. Highly paid managers and ministers are blasted for the 330-mile line being “badly off course”. The Commons report comes months after HS2 got the PM’s green light. It casts doubts on the Department for Transport’s ability […]

‘We were used as a dumping ground’: Care home forced to close after 15 residents died of coronavirus claim staff were ‘pressured’ to take untested patients to ‘free up hospital beds’ Temple Court in Kettering was believed to be Covid-free before NHS admissions Between March 28 and May 1, 15 people died, 10 of whom […]

Some former colleagues and landlords of Tara Reade, the former Joe Biden staffer who has accused him of sexual assault, say she is not to be trusted. “You can use these words: manipulative, deceitful, user,” California attorney Kelly Klett, who rented Reade a room in her home in 2018, told Politico in a deep dive […]

As Manitoba enters its third week of reopening the economy, one local garden centre owner says her customers are not taking the new social distancing measures well. The staff at Shelmerdine’s on Roblin Boulevard have been experiencing extreme negativity and rudeness from customers recently. “It kind of caught us off guard,” said co-owner Nicole Bent. […]

NICE, France (Reuters) – Bathers took a dip in the sea or strolled Nice’s Promenade des Anglais on the French Riviera on Saturday, many wearing protective masks, as the beach reopened to the public for the first time since a nationwide coronavirus lockdown in mid-March. People living in low-infection zones of France, so-called green zones, […]

MILAN (Reuters) – The daily toll from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy fell to 153 on Saturday, its lowest since March 9, against 242 the day before, the Civil Protection Agency said, while the daily tally of new cases increased to 875 from 789 on Friday. The total death toll since the outbreak came to […]

France has condemned the reported sentencing of a French-Iranian academic to six years in prison in Iran. Fariba Adelkhah was handed a five-year term for conspiring against national security and one year for propaganda, her lawyer Saeid Dehghan said. But he added that he expected the sentences would be served concurrently. The 61-year-old anthropologist and […]

King Abdullah II says Jordan is considering ‘all options’ over Israel’s plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank. Jordan’s king warned Israel of a “massive conflict” if it proceeds with plans to annex large parts of the occupied West Bank, as European Union foreign ministers agreed to step up diplomatic efforts to try […]

THOMAS Chipperfield spends his days tending to a menagerie of wild animals including a tiger and two lions he is so close to he can kiss one on the mouth. His unusual life in the English countryside is being documented by a film crew recording his battles with the Government and animal rights protesters – […]