Primary schools are set to reopen as soon as June 1 as part of Boris Johnson's coronavirus lockdown exit strategy, The Sunday Telegraph reports.

North Korean troops have fired several bullets at a South Korean guard post inside the heavily fortified border between the countries, the military said.

Police have arrested 13 people and issued 11 more with fines after breaking up two parties in Liverpool during coronavirus lockdown.

Social distancing at airports would lead to 1km-long queues for each jumbo jet, Heathrow's chief executive has claimed.

Supporters of Julian Assange were cautioned by police as they protested outside a central London court today.

Headteachers are planning for life after the lockdown to ensure the return to school will be safe for all children and staff.

On the criteria for a claimant to be looking for work being paused for three months, Ms Coffey said: "We do however want claimants to continue to look for work wherever they are able to do so."

The Mayor of London warned against a 'big bang' of lifting lockdown measures

The UK has fallen behind many other European countries in its response to coronavirus, a public health expert has said.

A former senior North Korean diplomat has apologised after saying Kim Jong-un was probably so ill he could not stand, days before he was seen at an event attended by hundreds of officials.

Selectively lifting lockdown restrictions in the UK risks "potential divisions between groups", an expert has said.

Nigel Farage has been visited by police officers who advised him not to breach lockdown restrictions after he travelled to Dover to report on migrants.

The number of new Covid-19 cases "needs to come down further", an expert has warned, as the UK death toll recorded its lowest daily rise since the end of March.

Person pronounced dead at the scene after incident early on Tuesday morning

An international basketball player who moved to London to escape Somalia's looming civil war has become one of the capital's latest victims of Covid-19.

China has launched a newly designed spacecraft as part of its ambitious plan to build an orbiting space station.

Two 20-year-old men were arrested on suspicion of public order offences

Nearly a quarter of employees in Britain have been furloughed in just two weeks, officials have said.

The ONS total is 34% higher than the Department of Health total.

The number of people who have died across the UK after testing positive for coronavirus has increased by 693 to nearly 30,000.

A London war memorial has been vandalised in what police described as a "senseless" act.

A five-year-old child has been taken to hospital after falling out of a window in north London.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will today celebrate the first birthday of their son Archie while under lockdown in the US.

Hundreds of O2 and Vodafone customers have reported problems with the networks.

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Europeans will see the worst economic shock since the Great Depression due to coronavirus, the European Union predicted.

Doctors at the London hospital at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak today told how they rapidly came up with innovative solutions when it ran out of vital life-saving equipment.

This is the first picture of a pensioner who died after being found by police with head injuries at his north London home.

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An NHS worker was fatally stabbed outside his home while on the phone to his girlfriend, a court has been told.

Earth's closest black hole has been discovered by astronomers and it is big enough to swallow the whole of Washington DC.

A father-of-two who spent 19 days in an induced coma in hospital has made an "incredible" recovery from coronavirus in time to celebrate his son's second birthday.

Public Health England medical director Professor Yvonne Doyle said it was "too early" to compare the UK statistics with that of other countries.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a police officer was attacked in north west London.

A new portrait of Dame Vera Lynn has been unveiled ahead of the 75th anniversary of VE Day

A Labour MP has claimed she was sacked from her job as a temporary carer amid the coronavirus pandemic after speaking out about personal protective equipment (PPE) shortages.

Forty firefighters tackled a blaze on the 17th floor of a block of flats in west London on Thursday morning.

The mundanity of coronavirus lockdown life is being celebrated in a photography exhibition to raise money for frontline workers.

A four-year-old girl battling a rare form of leukaemia has been reunited with her dad after seven weeks apart in lockdown.

Drug dealers are adopting new disguises so they can move around freeley during the coronavirus lockdown, a gang expert has said.

The war veteran has raised more than £30million so far

Low staff numbers and a lack of PPE are among the challenges facing schools as they draw together plans to reopen.

Mayor Sadiq Khan today made an urgent appeal to Londoners not to relax their "monumental effort" to beat coronavirus as the death toll in the capital's hospitals rose to 5,414.

A new artwork by Banksy has been painted onto the wall of an NHS hospital corridor to pay tribute to healthcare heroes battling coronavirus.

Millions of commuters will be told by Boris Johnson to change their "go to work" times to lengthen the rush hour as the country fires up its economic engines after lockdown.

The UK was ill-prepared to deal with a health pandemic, according to a secret Whitehall document produced years before the coronavirus outbreak.