A murder probe has been launched after an 88-year-old man was found dead at a property in Surrey.

Virgin Media, one of the UK's largest internet providers, has apologised after its broadband service crashed for thousands of customers.

Virgin Media customers are still complaining about issues with their broadband despite the provider saying the issue has been fixed.

Key items of protective equipment were not included in the government's pandemic stockpile when coronavirus hit the UK, an investigation has found.

A west London bus stop has been transformed into a "fabulous" children's art gallery to brighten the drudgery of life under the coronavirus lockdown.

Bosses at John Lewis have started talks on which department stores should keep their doors permanently closed once the coronavirus lockdown ends, according to sources.

A family firm that runs one of the historic Dunkirk Little Ships as a Thames passenger service is appealing for help to survive the lockdown.

Customers were found hiding in cupboards after officers raided a pub suspected of breaching coronavirus lockdown regulations, police have said.

A Walmart store has been temporarily shut down after 23 staff members tested positive for coronavirus after an inspection by local public health officials.

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The Government should avoid reopening schools too early as scientists do not fully understand coronavirus transmission between children, an NHS chief warned.

Social gatherings could be limited to 10 people until 2021 to prevent a second wave of coronavirus infections in the UK, scientists have warned.

A group calling themselves 'HS2 Rebellion' have blocked the entrance to a building site at Euston.

A police officer accused of murdering former Aston Villa star Dalian Atkinson is set to go ahead in September, despite the current uncertainty about court timetables due to coronavirus.

The father and son are still on the run

Boris Johnson's top scientist has defended the Government's battleplan against Covid-19 and said "you can't stop it".

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

IKEA has refused to comment on reports its 18 UK stores will be reopening later this month.

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

Tesco has been slammed after putting clothing on a half price sale in stores despite lockdown rules banning non-essential shopping.

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

Grimes and her boyfriend Elon Musk want to call their newborn son X Æ A-12 Musk, but California law might prevent it.

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

A number of McDonald's employees in America were shot on Wednesday after telling a customer to leave due to coronavirus restrictions, police said.

A number of police officers have been injured after responding to reports that men were "acting suspiciously" in Finsbury Park.

The nation is preparing to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day , with the Queen set to make a historic address to mark the occasion.

Prince William and Kate heard stories about Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill's "secret" birthday message his son when they chatted veterans about their VE Day memories.

The Supreme Court, for the first time, livestreamed its oral argument on Monday. It has discussed whether generic terms can become protected trademarks by the addition of a dot-com domain.

They are among the earliest enslaved African people brought to the Americas.

"There will be no social distancing in place," union rep wrote to city leaders.

On a 9,288km journey inspired by the centennial anniversary of the railway’s completion in 1916, photographer Annie Ling captures life onboard the Trans-Siberian Railway, and beyond the carriage window

This centuries-old teahouse in Sichuan province and its regulars are a world away from China’s modern megacities

Out in the western suburbs of Sichuan’s capital, Chengdu, the town of Pengzhen is home to what’s said to be the oldest teahouse in China. About 300 years old, the Guanyin Pavilion is at the heart of a tiny community of historic streets where, against a tide of rapid modernisation, the local population proudly preserves its heritage and traditional way of life.

You may be familiar with these iconic images, but where did the events take place?

Where did this ship dock on 22 June 1948?

Felixstowe

Liverpool

Southampton

Tilbury

Where was this short-lived celebration?

Berlin

Budapest

Paris

Prague

Where did these three famously meet?

Geneva

Nuremberg

Potsdam

Yalta

Prime Minister Harold Wilson, with pipe and sunburnt legs, is on holiday where?

Anglesey

Isles of Scilly

Isle of Wight

Isle of Skye

This Pablo Picasso masterpiece depicts the carnage of the Spanish civil war in which region?

Asturias

Basque Country

Galicia

Catalonia

One of the most famous fights in history took place where?

Kinshasa

Las Vegas

Manila

Mexico City

This didn't end well. Where did it all start?

Belgrade

Sarajevo

Versaille

Vienna

This is somewhere between Ibiza and the Norfolk Broads – but where exactly?

Brixton

Camden

Hackney

Soho

It's a wrap! Where did this take place?

Berlin

Moscow

Paris

Stockholm

Gazza's tears made him the most famous person in the UK for a while, but where was this match played?

Milan

Naples

Rome

Turin

Where are these matchstick men and women?

Birmingham

Liverpool

Manchester

Newcastle

Fidel could always draw a crowd - where was this one?

Havana

Moscow

New York

Rio de Janeiro

Where did the Arab spring begin?

Egypt

Libya

Lebanon

Tunisia

The barefoot runner, the nasty fall ... but in which Olympics did this controversial race take place?

Moscow

Barcelona

Seoul

Los Angeles

Nelson Mandela was freed just over 30 years ago. Where was the jail he walked out of to greet cheering crowds?

Paarl, near Cape Town

Robben Island

Sun City, south of Johannesburg

Pretoria Central

Which English town did Malcolm X visit just nine days before he was assassinated?

Halifax

Northampton

Oldham

Smethwick

13 and above.

Past master!

9 and above.

You're an old hand at this

0 and above.

Best stick to Where's Wally!

5 and above.

You're history!

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Everything is in readiness for the first mission to send humans into orbit from U.S. soil since NASA retired the space shuttle fleet in 2011 – from the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule that will take two astronauts to the International Space Station, to the parachutes that will bring them back down gently to an Atlantic Ocean splashdown, to the masks that NASA's ground team will wear in Mission Control. The fact that the launch is coming in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic has added a weird and somewhat wistful twist to the history-making event. "That certainly is disappointing," NASA… Read More

The ancient Roman city’s House of the Lovers has reopened to the public 40 years after it was severely damaged in 1980 by an earthquake

• Pompeii’s House of Lovers reopens to public

Lethbridge police are being investigated by an outside force after handcuffing a woman in a stormtrooper costume outside a Star Wars-themed business earlier this week. But still the force faces accusations that not enough is being done to investigate what happened.

Mother's Day is coming up, but it doesn't feel quite right for Dawn Degeus. The 39-year-old mother from Ancaster, Ont., will try to celebrate while one of her two kids actively avoids her.

Learn to get the most out of your ZFS filesystem in our new series on storage fundamentals.

Last week NVIDIA announced the acquisition of SwiftStack, an object storage startup that, in the last year, refocused most of its work…

If Peter Turchin is right, we face the end of a 300-year cycle, as did previous far-flung empires. 

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