Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc tests positive for Covid-19
The Frenchman's positive result is days after F1 bosses unveiled a new calendar after postponements of the Australian and Chinese GP. Read more...
Disappointing Chinese Vaccine Results Pose Setback for Developing World
Brazil says CoronaVac has an efficacy rate just over 50 percent, much lower than previously announced. More than 380 million doses have already been ordered. Read more...
U.S. Disaster Costs Doubled in 2020, Reflecting Costs of Climate Change
The billion in damage came in a year marked by a record number of named Atlantic storms, as well as the largest wildfires recorded in California. Read more...
Tottenham are NOT title contenders, insists Ally McCoist after Jose Mourinho's men draw with Fulham
Mourinho's men spurned the chance to breach the top four and close the gap on Liverpool and Man United on Wednesday as they were held to a draw at home by relegation-threatened Fulham. Read more...
Win Freixenet bubbly for a year!
Discover something new this National Wine Month with Freixenet, the UKs favourite sparkling wine, who is offering one lucky winner the chance to win its delicious Cava for a year Read more...
Lawmakers introduce bill to award hero Capitol Police officer the Congressional Gold Medal
Lawmakers on Thursday introduced a bill to award hero Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman with the Congressional Gold Medal after he led a MAGA mob of rioters away from the Senate last week. Read more...
Virgin Atlantic in scramble for emergency funds
Majority owned by founder Sir Richard Branson, Virgin is finalising a deal to raise up to 70million by selling and leasingback two Boeing Dreamliners after completing a rescue plan in September. Read more...
Musician Gary Numan checks into our travel QA
This week musician Gary Numan checks into our travel QA. He talks about his earliest holiday memory, his dream destination, why he moved to the U.S - and more. Read more...
Louis Bacon and Moore Capital - an apology
In an article A hedge fund Godfather of September 4 2010, we suggested that Mr Bacon was complicit in unethical behaviour within his hedge fund business, Moore Capital, and elsewhere, and as a result he is not the kind of person, and Moore Capital not the kind of business, that the Conservative Party should consider accepting financial donations from. Read more...
Footballers flouting Covid rules in group hugs is 'brainless' and an 'insult to the NHS' claim MPs
Footballers are acting in a 'brainless' way that is 'an insult to the NHS' by engaging in group hugs after scoring goals, senior politicians have claimed, as more players break Covid rules. Read more...
How to Take Better Pet Portraits
Even if you dont have an expensive camera, you can capture memorable images with your smartphone, the right software and a few tricks. Read more...
Jake Bugg Jake Bugg review Debut album is almost too good to be true
Lest we forget how good the music of the late Fifties was, here comes a new voice who seems hellbent on reminding us. And the extraordinary thing is, he wasnt born till 1994. Jake Bugg, an 18-year-old from Nottingham, is almost too good to be true Read more...
A Timeout for the N.B.A.s Halftime Performers Is Costing Them Big
The pandemic has all but shut down the income streams for halftime performers, who typically make ,500 to ,000 a show. The emotional toll is high as well. Read more...
From Megha Majumdar to Laura Purcell, Kate Mosse and Chris Hammer This week's best new fiction
Set amid sectarian bloodshed in India, this powerful US debut follows a young Muslim shop clerk who finds herself jailed as a terrorist. Read more...
Violent 'fight club' brawl takes place in a western Sydney car park
The violent melee filmed in Telopea in western Sydney has gone viral online after it was shared to social media platform Snapchat. Read more...
Company director, 44, threatened to choke his ex-partner to death in argument over child support
Neal Blighe, 44, of Falkirk, pleaded guilty to threatening to kill his former partner with his bare hands in argument over child support and was sentenced to 120 hours of unpaid work. Read more...
Tiger Woods' high school girlfriend recalls how the golfer dumped her by LETTER
Tiger Woods datedDina Gravell-Parr for three years after meeting atWestern High School in Anaheim, California. Dina opens up in the new HBO documentary 'Tiger.' Read more...
Upcoming N.H.L. Season Will Have Flashes of Other Difficult Eras
All of the Canadian teams will be in the same division, as they were in the late 1920s and most of the 1930s. And as during World War II, external circumstances will affect roster sizes. Read more...
Why a Vogue Cover Created an Uproar Over Kamala Harris
The vice president-elect is on the cover of the U.S. fashion magazine. Many people were not happy with the result. Read more...
British man, 65, dies after wooden home he had built in Spain burns down 'while he slept'
A 65-year-old British man has died in a house fire in the southern Spanish village of Comares. He has been named by local media as Brian Mcsorley and reportedly died while asleep in the home. Read more...
How 8 Countries Have Tried to Keep Artists Afloat During Panemic
Governments around the world have tried to support the arts during the pandemic, some more generously than others. Read more...