Apple says it will keep US stores closed until early May due to the coronavirus pandemic after initially announcing it would open by March 27 Apple says all its retail stores in the US will remain closed until early May Initial closures began in mid-March and were thought to last just two weeks Apple has … Read more
Jennifer Lopez and her fiancé Alex Rodriguez really got the special treatment when they were allowed the sole use of a gym in Miami during the coronavirus lockdown. While it has been closed to the rest of the public in a bid to maintain social distancing measures, the fitness loving couple made sure they didn’t … Read more
Love knows no boundaries! German, 89, and his 85-year-old Danish girlfriend meet at the countries’ closed border for a daily drink amid coronavirus lockdown Karsten Hansen, 89, meets his Danish girlfriend Inga Rasmussen, 85, every day They’ve been together 2 years and have spent each day together since last year Their quarantine dates usually consist … Read more
2020 OLYMPIC GAMES The 2020 Olympic Games has been postponed until 2021 on March 24 – becoming one of the last major sporting events this summer to fall victim to the coronavirus. Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe held a crucial conference call with Olympics chief Thomas Bach on Tuesday to formally decide a plan and … Read more
What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more
Vincent van Gogh painting is stolen from Dutch museum closed due to coronavirus The museum near Amsterdam said van Gogh’s ‘Spring Garden’ had been stolen Burglars forced their way in through a glass door shortly after 3am this morning Museum director said he was ‘shocked and incredibly p****d off’ by the theft Coronavirus symptoms: what … Read more
Priti Patel calls for UK borders to be CLOSED to stop new coronavirus cases being imported from worldwide hotspots UK-bound flights from New York, Tehran, Rome and Beijing all took off yesterday Priti Patel says flights from virus hotspots should not be allowed into the country Less concern over EU arrivals ‘because their domestic lockdowns … Read more
Priti Patel calls for UK borders to be CLOSED to stop new coronavirus cases being imported from worldwide hotspots UK-bound flights from New York, Tehran, Rome and Beijing all took off yesterday Priti Patel says flights from virus hotspots should not be allowed into the country Less concern over EU arrivals ‘because their domestic lockdowns … Read more
Every weekend and holiday, Cameron Newham is out from dawn to dusk, in rain, sun, hail and biting winds, fulfilling his quest to photograph all 12,000 of England’s rural parish churches. Always working alone — ‘other people tend to get rather bored’ — he takes pictures of, well, pretty much everything. A nice view from … Read more
2020 OLYMPIC GAMES The Olympic torch relay in Greece was cancelled on Friday March 13 – just a day after the flame was lit in Olympia. Large crowds mobbed Hollywood actor Gerard Butler as he lit the cauldron in the Greek city of Sparta despite repeated warnings for spectators not to attend because of coronavirus. That forced … Read more