Countdown presenter Rachel Riley has won the first round of a High Court libel case against a former aide to Jeremy Corbyn.

The Foreign Secretary has confirmed the Government is following reports of Kim Jong Un's death "very closely".

A doctor who became one of the first people in Europe to receive a potential coronavirus vaccine says she is "doing fine" after rumours claimed she had died.

A police officer has died and another is fighting for his life after a shooting in Louisiana.

Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar said it would instead fly The Spirit of Kent on a circuit around the Biggin Hill airfield at 8pm on Thursday, to coincide with the nation's weekly "Clap for our Carers" event.

This is the moment a firefighter's star-spangled tribute entertained health workers outside a Manhattan hospital.

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

A pug has become the first dog to be diagnosed with coronavirus in the US, an animal rights organisation has reported.

At least 38 people have died after a devastating fire broke out at a construction site near South Korea's capital, Seoul.

A huge blaze has broken out at a block of flats in north London.

Shoppers will have to get used to "supermarket-style" queuing and till screens as well as innovations such as video-conferencing advice from ­assistants when high-street stores start to reopen after the end of the lockdown.

Boris Johnson will today lead the daily Covid-19 briefing for the first time since his return to work following his battle with the virus.

One of London's most popular celebrity nightspots will be allowed to open a Parisian-style pavement café despite dozens of complaints from neighbours.

The number of coronavirus deaths in the UK has increased by 674 – bringing the national total to 26,771.

Boris Johnson has thanked the NHS for saving his life and delivering his new son into the world just one day ago.

The High Court is due to give its ruling on the first stage of the Duchess of Sussex's privacy claim against Mail on Sunday today.

Ten fire engines and around 70 firefighters have been battling a blaze in a block of flats in south east London.

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The publisher of the Mail on Sunday has won the first High Court skirmish in the Duchess of Sussex's privacy claim against it over publication of a letter to her estranged father.

April had its sunniest month on record for the UK, the Met Office has confirmed.

Joggers, cyclists and surfers across Spain have emerged from their homes as adults were allowed out for exercise for the first time in seven weeks.

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

Scientists race to track down and contain invasive species in bid to save local bee populations from slaughter

New Zealand has recorded no new coronavirus cases for the first day since a national lockdown came into force more than a month ago.

A hospital set up to care for people recovering from Covid-19 will be named after the pioneering nurse Mary Seacole to pay tribute to nurses on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic.

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."

Nearly 100 children who were being targeted online by child abusers were saved by police in London during the first four weeks of the lockdown, Scotland Yard revealed today.

A French hospital which has retested old samples from pneumonia patients discovered that it treated a man who had Covid-19 as early as December 27.

Italy has already taken its first steps towards easing lockdown restrictions and now the country has revealed how restaurants could look once they re-open.

A huge blaze broke out at a 48-storey skyscraper in the United Arab Emirates city of Sharjah.

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

The first cohort of children are returning to school in Wuhan, China, where the first case of the new coronavirus was reported late last year.

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

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

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.

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

Around 500 people have been forced to flee their homes due to raging wildfires in the Florida Panhandle, authorities have confirmed.

The hospital trust that treated London's first coronavirus cases almost ran out of oxygen as hundreds of patients fought for their lives, it can be revealed.

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The Raptor rocket engine burned for about 4 seconds.

YouTube, Facebook crack down on two viral videos for spreading medical misinformation.

Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc. has signed an agreement to secure most of the payload mass on a Firefly Aerospace rocket that's due to lift off from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base in 2021. The agreement, announced today, establishes Spaceflight as the mission's anchor customer and commits the company to managing the logistics for multiple payloads on the Firefly Alpha rocket. That should help Firefly maximize use of the rocket's 630-kilogram (1,389-pound) capacity for a launch to sun-synchronous orbit. Texas-based Firefly Aerospace is planning to launch the Alpha on its maiden flight from Vandenberg later this year. The company suffered a setback in… Read More

For the first time, Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo rocket plane flew free in the skies over New Mexico's Spaceport America, its new base of operations. The SpaceShipTwo plane, known as VSS Unity, has made rocket-powered flights beyond the 50-mile space milestone during tests at California's Mojave Air and Space Port, but today's unpowered test flight was the first to be flown from Spaceport America. "Today's VSS Unity flight is another exciting milestone for Virgin Galactic's progress in New Mexico," Dan Hicks, executive director of the New Mexico Spaceport Authority, said in a news release. "We are extremely happy and proud of… Read More

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has confirmed in a tweet that the space agency is working with movie star Tom Cruise on a project that involves shooting a film on the International Space Station. Deadline Hollywood reported on Monday that a space movie project involving NASA and SpaceX is in the works, but that "no studio is in the mix at this stage." Bridenstine followed up with a tweet saying that NASA was "excited" to be working with Cruise, and explaining that "we need popular media to inspire a new generation of engineers and scientists to make NASA's ambitious plans a… Read More

Security council had spent weeks seeking resolution but Trump administration opposed mention of organizationThe US has blocked a vote on a UN security council resolution calling for a global ceasefire during the Covid-19 pandemic, because the Trump administration objected to an indirect reference to the World Health Organization.The security council has been wrangling for more than six weeks over the resolution, which was intended to demonstrate global support for the call for a ceasefire by the UN secretary general, António Guterres. The main source for the delay was the US refusal to endorse a resolution that urged support for the WHO’s operations during the coronavirus pandemic.Donald Trump has blamed the WHO for the pandemic, claiming (without any supporting evidence) that it withheld information in the early days of the outbreak.China insisted that the resolution should include mention and endorsement of the WHO.On Thursday night, French diplomats thought they had engineered a compromise in which the resolution would mention UN “specialized health agencies” (an indirect, if clear, reference to the WHO).The Russian mission signaled that it wanted a clause calling for the lifting of sanctions that affected the delivery of medical supplies, a reference to US punitive measures imposed on Iran and Venezuela. However, most security council diplomats believed Moscow would withdraw the objection or abstain in a vote rather than risk isolation as the sole veto on the ceasefire resolution.On Thursday night, it appeared that the compromise resolution had the support of the US mission, but on Friday morning, that position switched and the US “broke silence” on the resolution, raising objection to the phrase “specialist health agencies”, and blocking movement towards a vote.“We understood that there was an agreement on this thing but it seems that they changed their mind,” a western security council diplomat said.“Obviously they have changed their mind within the American system so that wording is still not good enough for them,” another diplomat close to the discussions said. “It might be that they just need a bit more time to settle it amongst themselves, or it might be that someone very high up has made a decision they don’t want it, and therefore it won’t happen. It is unclear at this moment, which one it is.”A spokesperson for the US mission at the UN suggested that if the resolution was to mention the work of the WHO, it would have to include critical language about how China and the WHO have handled the pandemic.“In our view, the council should either proceed with a resolution limited to support for a ceasefire, or a broadened resolution that fully addresses the need for renewed member state commitment to transparency and accountability in the context of Covid-19. Transparency and reliable data are essential to helping the world combat this ongoing pandemic, and the next one,” the spokesperson said.While the force of the resolution would be primarily symbolic, it would have been symbolism at a crucial moment. Since Guterres made his call for a global ceasefire, armed factions in more than a dozen countries had observed a temporary truce. The absence of a resolution from the world’s most powerful nations, however, undermines the secretary general’s clout in his efforts to maintain those fragile ceasefires.Talks will continue next week at the security council to explore whether some other way around the impasse can be found.

Yep, in-the-wild SQL injection exploits in 2020 are still a thing.

Firings highlight “toxicity running through the company culture,” Bray said.

And I’m sick of it.

US say they fear long-range ballistic technology used to put satellites into orbit could also be used to launch nuclear warheads