A dating app is providing London bus drivers with free face bandanas, amid fears of a lack adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) for frontline transport staff.

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.

There are "questions to be asked" about where coronavirus came from, Boris Johnson's spokesperson has said.

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.

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."

Cumbria Police have apologised for an "ill-judged" tweet that suggested people should not buy plants or compost during the coronavirus lockdown.

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

London's Nightingale hospital will be put "on standby" within days as a result of the capital passing the peak of coronavirus cases.

The Government has missed its 100,000 daily coronavirus test target for the second day running.

If someone tests positive for coronavirus more than once, it does not necessarily mean they have been reinfected, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

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

Updated figures for England come as authorities in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland all announce additional Covid-19 deaths

A security guard has denied raping a woman while working at an NHS hospital.

Matt Hancock has urged people living on the Isle of Wight to download the coronavirus contact tracing app to "save lives" during the pandemic.

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.

The UK public's right to privacy could become "another casualty" of the coronavirus crisis through the use of a contact-tracing app, Amnesty International UK has warned.

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.

Urgent action is still needed to make it easier for vulnerable people to access supermarket delivery slots and other sources of supplies, Which? has warned.

Trials are beginning on a new coronavirus contact-tracing app which ministers have said will save lives and help lift Britain out of lockdown.

Powerful winds and heavy rain continue to batter the UK with gales of up to 60mph sweeping across the southwest, sparking a weather warning.

The wife of former Premier League footballer Kevin Phillips has been released without charge after being arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following a stabbing.

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.

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

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.

Draft proposals for how to return to work safely have been leaked and they paint a very different picture of the workplace post lockdown.​

Just 50,000 commuters could board every 15 minutes if they had to keep two metres apart - when rush-hour usually sees 320,000 on board

Campaign launched to increase threshold on rateable value to help struggling businesses

As A D-Day veteran, Ray Smith celebrated the allies' victory in Europe at an all-night party in Trafalgar Square.

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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.

Three doctors in Russia who raised concerns about the working conditions on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic have fallen out of hospital windows over the last two weeks, it has been reported.

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

Nike has donated tens of thousands of trainers to frontline healthcare workers fighting the pandemic around the world.

Half of those reading about coronavirus in the UK have come across false or misleading information, a watchdog has warned.

There were 5,890 coronavirus-related care home deaths involving Covid-19 registered up to April 24 in England and Wales, the Office for National Statistics said.

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

The coronavirus death toll in the UK has risen to more than 32,000 - and may now be the highest in Europe.

A man has been jailed after he viciously bit down on an officer's finger in a "sustained attack" to avoid being arrested.

Detectives were today investigating the death of a pensioner found slumped with a head injury on a tree-lined street in north London.

California's governor has announced that the six-week lockdown of America's most populous state will be relaxed within days as the daily coronavirus death toll across the United States fell to its lowest level in a month.

Antibody tests at 98 per cent accuracy would put up to a quarter of population at risk of infection, government advisers have warned.

The House of Commons echoed with peals of laughter today as Matt Hancock complimented a fellow Tory MP on his lockdown hairdo.

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

Union bosses have written to Sadiq Khan to demand a reversal of Transport for London's "disgraceful" decision to deny free travel to London Underground's cleaners.

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.