The United States has angered Germany and France after allegedly seizing millions of masks set to be shipped to the European nations amid the coronavirus crisis. On Friday, German officials hit out at America for ‘intercepting’ 200,000 masks they had ordered from a 3M factory in China. As 3M is an American-owned company, the US … Read more
Seduced by a declining daily death toll and cautious optimism among experts, many members of the public may have dared hope that Britain was finally turning a corner on the coronavirus horror. If so, they were yesterday abruptly disabused of that rose-tinted notion. On a bleak day, the number of patients dying rocketed by 381 … Read more
President Donald Trump is using the Defense Production Act to require General Motors to manufacture ventilators to be used by overwhelmed hospitals – in a move that follows an angry blow-up online. Democrats and administration critics have been pushing the Trump administration to use Korean War-era military authority to speed production of vital equipment. Trump … Read more
Teeth act as a ‘faithful archive of life’ by forming layers like tree rings that reveal intimate details of a person’s life such as when they got pregnant, fell ill or were in prison Material called cementum in teeth develops a new microscopic layer every year Lab analysis reveals it changes in shape and structure … Read more
A woman who was arrested after a seven-year-old girl was stabbed to death in a park in front of her parents has been detained under the Mental Health Act. Police were called to Queens Park, in Bolton, on Sunday afternoon following the ‘totally unprovoked and random’ attack. The girl had been out with her family … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: Two giant cruise ships on standby to act as floating hospitals at Tilbury Docks as UK cruise company offers them to the government to help cope with coronavirus crisis British owners of Spirit of Discovery and Saga Sapphire are understood to have handed ships to government No decision has yet been taken to use … Read more
Mother’s touching act of kindness to elderly shoppers strikes a chord amid coronavirus panic-buying madness A Melbourne woman has praised a good Samaritan that helped elderly shoppers She saw a woman pay for the elderly couple’s groceries at Coles on Wednesday The Facebook post thanking the ‘amazing woman’ for her kind act has gone viral … Read more
HOROSCOPES: Act on impulse this week, Pisces By Sally Brompton for The Mail on Sunday Published: 00:02 GMT, 23 February 2020 | Updated: 00:02 GMT, 23 February 2020 Pisces 20 FEB-20 MAR Try acting on impulse this week and follow your heart rather than your head. A new moon in your sign means a new beginning … Read more
A former NHS doctor trapped in coronavirus-hit Italy has begged the UK Government to ‘shut down everything’ in the fight against the killer infection. Professor Mohamed Abu Hilal, who now works in Brescia, north Italy, urged officials to prepare more beds, doctors and nurses in the NHS in light of the fiasco happening in the worst hit … Read more