Three people have been arrested after a staggering 190kg of cocaine worth about £19 million was found hidden in lorries carrying toys and paper at the Port of Dover.

An estimated £10.4 million jackpot is up for grabs in Saturday's Lotto game after no-one won the top prize in the midweek draw.

Some 26 million people in the US have filed for unemployment benefits in five weeks since with the coronavirus outbreak forcing employers to close their doors.

Charles and Camilla joined mass applause across the UK in the fifth week of "Clap for our Carers".

Millions of key workers and their households are now eligible for coronavirus tests as the Government races to meet its 100,000 daily target by the end of next week.

The Government have said it is working on the infrastructure for "large-scale" contact tracing as a key strategy for lifting the coronavirus lockdown.

The Government's new portal for arranging coronavirus tests has sparked confusion today, following a message suggesting home tests had run out by 9am.

UK businesses have furloughed 3.8 million workers during the coronavirus lockdown, Downing Street has said.

The Duchess of Cornwall says she is missing seeing and hugging her grandchildren during the coronavirus lockdown.

Brits could be allowed to meet up with small "bubbles" of up to 10 of their closest family or friends in an effort to wind down the coronavirus lockdown.

Two men have been charged after a £3 million cocaine haul was uncovered in a purpose-built smuggling lorry in Dover.

The coronavirus death toll in UK hospitals has passed the grim milestone of 20,000.

The army is being deployed across the UK to begin testing essential workers and vulnerable people for coronavirus.

Ten people from London who travelled 245 miles to go walking in North Wales were sent home and reported by police for breaking lockdown rules.

The Royal Mint is set to manufacture nearly two million medical visors to help protect NHS staff from the coronavirus across England and Wales.

Military-style semi-automatic weapons and assault rifles will be banned in New Zealand from next month under tough new laws announced today by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

A mile-wide asteroid is on course to pass the Earth on Wednesday at a distance 16 times further than the moon.

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Millions of Britons fell silent at 11am today in memory of the healthcare heroes and key workers who have died fighting coronavirus.

Prince Charles has paid tribute to his former Welsh tutor Tedi Millward, who has died at the age of 89.

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Global confirmed coronavirus cases have surpassed three million.

More than one million people have now tested positive for coronavirus in the US as lockdown measures continue to be eased in some states.

The US coronavirus death toll has now exceeded the 58,220 American lives lost during the Vietnam War, as cases in the country topped one million.

Families of NHS and social care staff who die from coronavirus in the course of "essential frontline work" will receive a £60,000 payment, Matt Hancock has said.

Nasa plans to test potentially lifesaving technology by crashing a spacecraft into a smaller asteroid in 2021

A cuckoo named Carlton II has smashed the record books by flying more than 4,000 miles in just seven days on his annual migration to the UK from Africa.

The appeal by NHS fundraiser Colonel Tom Moore topped £32 million as it closed at midnight.

The family of a four-year-old boy with a rare form of cancer is raising money to take him to New York for a potentially life-saving vaccine.

A passenger plane has returned to the UK with ten million pairs of surgical gloves for NHS staff on the coronavirus frontline.

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Piers Morgan has said he will temporarily step back from presenting ITV's Good Morning Britain after developing a "mild" coronavirus symptom.

More than three million Britons have downloaded an app designed by researchers at King's College London to track the symptoms of coronavirus.

US president predicts economic surge later this year as several states begin tentatively re-opening for business after weeks of shutdown

Spain's strict coronavirus lockdown has sent the unemployment rate to a near four-year high.

Out of millions of visitors coming into the UK from coronavirus hotspots, less than 300 were put into quarantine in the three months before lockdown.

London's iconic Ritz hotel was sold for "half the market price" after conversations were secretly recorded by the nephews of the billionaire co-owner and a Saudi investor offering £1.3bn, the High Court has heard.

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

For centuries, many have turned to the church as a way of reconnecting with others within their community. But with lockdown restrictions in place and church services banned, religious leaders have taken it upon themselves to restore hope in a time of uncertainty.

The Duchess of Cambridge has launched a landmark photographic project to capture the "spirit of the nation" during the coronavirus outbreak.

More than a third of families with children living at home may have to cut back on spending for up to a year after the coronavirus lockdown measures end, a survey has found.

They have been living in a temporary facility for the past year to train them to use rocks for exfoliation and fatten them for the cooler temperatures.

Two young children had their throats cut during an attack by their father at the family home in east London, an inquest has heard.

Donations have poured in for a 100-year-old woman who was robbed after thieves tricked their way into her home in Darlington.

Four people have been fined after attempting to drive from Dorset to Milford Haven to look at a boat.

LauncherOne to cap eight years of development with upcoming flight.

The following is a brief roundup of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. A new antibody test is highly accurate at determining whether people have been infected with the novel coronavirus, according to a study published on Friday in The Journal of Clinical Microbiology. Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine found the test, manufactured by Abbott Laboratories, had a specificity rate of 99.9% and a sensitivity rate of 100%, suggesting little chance of incorrectly diagnosing a healthy person as having been infected and virtually no chance of a false negative readout.