A man was pulled over in his car on the M6 motorway after he was caught in a compromising – and illegal – position, police said.

Coronavirus was "not man-made or genetically modified," US intelligence agencies have said.

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Armed protesters descended on Michigan's state capitol building last night as they called for an end to the state's coronavirus lockdown restrictions.

Fears that children may be at risk of a serious inflammatory condition linked to coronavirus have been downplayed by a leading doctor.

Donald Trump has claimed he has seen evidence that coronavirus may have originated in a Chinese virology lab.

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

A senior World Health Organisation (WHO) official has insisted Covid-19 is "natural in origin" after Donald Trump claimed to have seen evidence that the outbreak originated from a laboratory in China.

Questions have been raised over how coronavirus tests were counted after Health Secretary Matt Hancock hailed the "incredible achievement" of the Government in hitting its 100,000-a-day target.

Pub visits should be avoided when social distancing measures are eased, one of the UK's top medics has said.

Ofsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman has suggested there could be a "mixed economy" of schooling as the coronavirus lockdown is eased.

Nightingale hospitals were not build in error, NHS England's national medical director has said.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has claimed that the US has "a significant amount of evidence" that the new coronavirus emerged from a Chinese laboratory.

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Australia's Great Barrier Reef has experienced its third coral bleaching event in five years, according to researchers who blamed the rapid warming of the planet due to human emissions.

Schools are installing hand-washing troughs in playgrounds and preparing to mark out two-metre lines to keep parents apart as they drop off their children in anticipation of the coronavirus lockdown ending.

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

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.

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.

China's ambassador to the UK has criticised MPs for "attacking" China over the coronavirus outbreak.

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

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.

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

London children who have been cooped up at home will be able to discover the historic buildings on their doorstep when lockdown is over.

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

A statement from Imperial College London said Prof Ferguson "continues to focus on his important research".

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.

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Rising levels of racist abuse towards people of Chinese heritage is likely to escalate when the coronavirus lockdown lifts, an academic has warned.

Most parents don't want to send their children back to school as soon as the coronavirus lockdown is lifted, a new study has found.

The Government has exceeded its 100,000-a-day coronavirus testing target, Matt Hancock has declared.

More than 40 children have been treated in a specialist London hospital for a "hyper inflammatory" new disease after apparently contracting coronavirus, the Standard has been told.

A single dad who has fostered 12 children has taken in another child who had nowhere else to go during the coronavirus pandemic.

Boris Johnson's father has told how he broke Covid-19 lockdown rules to buy a newspaper after the Prime Minister's son was born.

UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres has called for an "all-out effort to end hate speech globally" amid what he called a "tsunami of hate and xenophobia, scapegoating and scare-mongering" unleashed during the coronavirus pandemic.

A father has been charged with murdering his two young children who had their throats cut at the Ilford family home.

The UK is set to bask in glorious sunshine on Saturday with temperatures forecast to hit 26C (78.8F).

China now has a capsule potentially capable of returning from the Moon.

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Pioneering Australian scientist Robert May, whose work in biology led to the development of chaos theory, has died at age 84.

Known as one of Australia’s most accomplished scientists, he served as the chief scientific adviser to the United Kingdom, was president of the Royal Society, and was made a lord in 2001.

Police have dropped an investigation into two prominent Brexit campaigners accused of breaching spending rules during the referendum campaign. In 2018 the Electoral commission said that Alan Halsall, of Vote Leave, and Darren Grimes, founder of pro-Brexit youth group BeLeave, failed to declare a payment related to the campaign. The watchdog said that BeLeave "spent more than £675,000 with (Canadian data firm) Aggregate IQ under a common plan with Vote Leave". This spending took Vote Leave over its £7 million legal spending limit by almost £500,000. Vote Leave paid a £61,000 fine, but denied wrongdoing, while Mr Grimes won an appeal against his £20,000 fine in July. The Commission also referred the pair to the Metropolitan Police but on Friday it was revealed that the investigations had now been dropped. A spokesman for the Leave campaigners said: "The Metropolitan Police has written to Vote Leave board member Alan Halsall and BeLeave founder Darren Grimes to confirm that it will not be acting on allegations made against them by the Electoral Commission and various Remain campaigners. "This marks the end of a two-year ordeal for both individuals." Mr Grimes, 26, said the development called into question whether the Electoral Commission was "fit for purpose". He had insisted since the allegations were first made that he was "completely innocent" of making false declarations in relation to the £680,000 donation. In a statement, Mr Grimes, a former fashion student originally from County Durham, said: "The Metropolitan Police has found, after investigation and consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service, that there is no case to be answered. "Once again the Electoral Commission has been found to be part of the mob, a quango out of control that isn't policing elections so much as punishing Leavers who have the temerity to win them. "My ordeal at the hands of the kangaroo court that is the Electoral Commission is now over, but questions must now be asked of whether that body is fit for purpose." Mr Halsall, the responsible person for Vote Leave, said he was "delighted to have been exonerated" and thanked the police for their "professional" investigation. "I was very disappointed that my colleagues at Vote Leave and myself were never given the opportunity of making our case in person to the Electoral Commission before being fined and reported to the police," he added. "It seems a rather unusual way of conducting an inquiry into such matters that only the so-called whistleblowers who made these allegations are interviewed by the regulator." A spokesman for the Met said an investigation into the Electoral Commission's allegations against Vote Leave and BeLeave, submitted on July 17 2018, was handed over in October to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). "On Tuesday, March 3 preliminary advice was received from the CPS," said the force spokesman. "This advice has now been duly considered and no further action will be taken."