The unprecedented move puts key summer events such as the Glastonbury Festival, Chelsea Flower Show, Wimbledon tennis championships, the Grand National and Royal Ascot under threat.

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul wants to bring a class-action lawsuit to the Supreme Court against the government's phone and Internet anti-terrorism surveillance programs

Festivus came early this year, with Sen. Rand Paul dropping his annual Festivus Report 2019 before Monday's Seinfeldian holiday.

Boris Johnson's plan to ease the UK's coronavirus lockdown will see people urged to cycle to work, firms told to provide staff with face masks and garden centres allowed to reopen from Wednesday.

EXCLUSIVE BY MIKE KEEGAN: The Rugby Football League (RFL) is set to ask the government for funding to ensure clubs do not go out of business after the season was suspended.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced yesterday that some 18,000 staff will be put in place as part of the mass-testing scheme but scientists do not believe that will be enough.

The match has since received a huge amount of scrutiny after a huge crowd of 54,000 - with 3,000 fans arriving from Madrid - were allowed to attend the match, against the advice of the WHO.

Key plans on the safe return to football - which will be put to players - are set to be finalised at a cross-sport meeting with the Government on Wednesday.

The Indian and Irish governments have promised to do all they can for the parents of Savita Halappanavar, who died of blood poisoning after Irish doctors refused her an abortion.

Despite extensive contingency planning, including potential of playing matches at neutral venues, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden warned the game is yet to get the 'green light'.

Health authorities are mulling over how closely Australians could be monitored once travel restrictions and social distancing rules are relaxed.

The move follows growing pressure for tighter border controls during the coronavirus crisis and would include UK citizens returning from abroad.

The deadly epidemic has swept through northern parts of Italy and there have been calls to prevent the disease reaching the shores of Ireland with the game set to take place on March 7.

Racing leaders said on Wednesday that they are putting together a financial submission for Government aid to try to avert a desperate financial crisis.

Barry Gardiner said that the opposition had been discussing the 'nuclear option'  of supporting a no confidence vote in Mr Johnson's Brexiteer administration.

The virus lingers in the blood stream and saliva for up to about two weeks after infection, and remains in bodily fluids like semen for months. But NIH scientists confirm a kiss is not dangerous.

North Korean despot Kim Jong Un has blasted his own officials as 'helpless' as he 'urgently convened' a disaster prevention meeting about oncoming Typhoon Lingling.

An FBI informant was acting as 'secret spy' in the Trump election campaign, but he was not planted. A retired professor working for the Government met with three Trump aides in 2016.

The Paralympics has been added to the 'crown jewels' list of sports events which must be broadcast live on free-to-air TV - but cricket has been controversially overlooked.

Malaysian financier Jho Low, who was, accused of stealing £3 billion from his country's government was directly inspired by the overt wealth of his peers at Harrow-school, says economic expert.

Prime Minister Erna Solberg came in for immediate criticism after agreeing to the repatriation of the 29-year-old woman so her seriously ill five-year-old son could receive medical treatment.

Industry bodies have joined forces in an attempt to stop the 'overzealous use of keyword blocking' amid the coronavirus outbreak.

The Grand National was dramatically called off on Monday night after new Government restrictions to fight the spread of coronavirus made it impossible to stage the Aintree showpiece.

The Migration Advisory Committee said post-Brexit arrangements to replace EU freedom of movement could slow the growth in the UK population and make people slightly better off.

Pauline Hanson has called on the government to 'tighten up' immigration laws after a new report revealed 50,000 migrants who were denied asylum in Australia remain in the country. 

Scott Morrison raged against the sudden scrapping of Holden in Australia, but he must have forgotten the Coalition Government forced the car marker to close its factories in 2013.

James May was enjoying a pint last night at the Cross Keys pub in Hammersmith, London, after a cycle ride. He told MailOnline he was helping the landlord drink up beer which would 'go to waste'.

The UK government have been urged by its own members to take an active role in scrutinising the Saudi-led takeover of Newcastle United following calls for the deal to be blocked.

New York Sweet Chick restaurants co-owned by rapper Nas and John Seymour are offering free chicken and waffles to furloughed workers until the partial government shutdown ends.

A pro-government broadcaster said Eurovision was 'a homosexual flotilla' and that Hungary's mental health would be better off if it was out of the singing competition.

Indian politician and Rajya Sabha MP from Maharashtra and Deputy Leader of Shiv Sena, Priyanka Chaturvedi, in conversation with Dr. Annurag Batra, Chairman & Editor-in-Chief BW Businessworld, Jyotsna Sharma, Sr. Editor, BW Businessworld and Abhinav Trivedi, Managing Editor, BW TV & Digital about leadership, women empowerment and the Maharashtra government’s efforts to mitigate the effects of the deadly Covid-19.

ModernaThe biotech Moderna is developing experimental cancer vaccines.The leading coronavirus vaccine candidate just got up to $483 million in additional funding from the US government.The cash will pay for future trials to see if the vaccine works in humans, as well as for simultaneously ramping up production of the vaccine. "This allows us to go full speed and very aggressively," CEO Stephane Bancel told Business Insider in a Thursday video interview, saying the vaccine program will now go "as fast as humanly possible."The upstart biotech Moderna developed the vaccine candidate in record time using its technology platform called messenger RNA. The new technology has yet to produce an approved vaccine, but has shown promise in its potential to quickly respond to new viruses. The first human

IANS“While the lockdown has helped in flattening the curve, the curve has not shown a downward trend. That is a cause for concern,” Guleria told The Indian Express.He also believes “the next four to six weeks will be very, very important because the lockdown cannot be there forever. The ideal, the dream would be to have zero cases.”Guleria believes “we are better prepared than we were before”, but the pandemic has to be “fought at the community level, not the hospital level.”Lav Aggarwal, the spokesperson, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, highlighted the fact that for the first time since the outbreak, India’s COVID-19 cases are doubling every 12 days. Which is a huge improvement since before lockdown began coronavirus cases were doubling every 3.2 days as of March 24. However, the

Moody's Investors Service said India’s Baa2 negative rating is unlikely to improve given the economic shock triggered by the coronavirus outbreak.However, the report noted that the COVID-19 crisis has only exacerbated the impact of some of India’s existing evils.The $2.7 trillion economy, the seventh largest in the world, is riddled by low household income, high government debt, and weak policy reforms and implementation.Moody's Investors Service said India’s Baa2 negative rating ⁠— while cutting growth estimate for the year to 0.2% ⁠— down from our previous forecast of 2.5%. is unlikely to improve given the economic shock triggered by the coronavirus outbreak. Over the next five years, India’s government debt could be as high as 81% of the country’s gross domestic product, it said.However,

Rick Bright, the Department of Health and Human Services scientist who was reassigned last month and then filed a whistleblower complaint, disputed the White House's characterization that he was "disgruntled.""I am frustrated at a lack of urgency to get a head-start on developing life-saving tools for Americans," he said in a CBS "60 Minutes" interview."I was thinking that we could have done more to get those masks and supplies to them sooner, and if we had, would they still be alive today," Bright added. "It's a horrible thought to think about the time that past when we could have done something and we didn't."Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.Rick Bright, the Department of Health and Human Services scientist who was fired in April and then filed a whistleblower complaint

US banks earned $10 billion in two weeks processing the loans from the government scheme to protect small businesses from financial ruin during the coronavirus crisis, according to an NPR report.The rescue plan worth $349 billion offered businesses loans of up to $10 million to thousands of US companies and were guaranteed by the federal Small Business Administration.The banks charged a transaction fee of 5% on loans worth less than $350,000, while on loans worth between $2 million - $10 million, the cost was 1%.The banks defended the massive windfall of loan transaction fees, saying that processing the loans involved complicated vetting procedures.Treasury Department guidelines are less rigorous than for regular loans, and the taxpayer provides the funding, so there is little risk for the

The Elzarka family has owned Beninni, a men's formal wear store in Hayward, California, for 30 years. The shop was forced to shut down in the coronavirus lockdown, and has tried and failed to get government assistance loans through the coronavirus relief package.Shady Elzarka, whose dad founded the store, struggled to access either the Economic Injury Disaster Loan Emergency Advance (EIDL) and relief from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).Elzarka for weeks heard nothing from the Small Business Administration, through which he applied for an EIDL, or from Bank of America, where he applied for the PPP loan.Meanwhile much larger companies did not struggle to access government funding, some of which public pressure forced them to hand back.After Business Insider contacted Bank of America for

Christina Stembel founded her floral company, Farmgirl Flowers, in her dining room in 2010, using her personal savings and a cash-back credit card to cover business expenses.The company has since blossomed into a thriving startup that employed almost 200 staff members prior to the coronavirus.However, as the pandemic causes economic fallout worldwide, Stembel told Business Insider that the future of her company is uncertain.She said the process of applying for the first round of the Paycheck Protection Program, a government fund meant to help small businesses through the coronavirus pandemic, was frustrating and fruitless."I know that the intention of this program is to help small businesses, so let's change it to make sure this money does fall into the hands of small businesses," she said.Visit

The Paycheck Protection Program is a key component of the federal government's response to the economic devastation caused by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.After the initial $350 billion allocated for the small business loans at the heart of the program was exhausted in just two weeks, Congress appropriated an additional $320 billion in funding.A recent Small Business Administration report shows where that second round of funding has gone so far.While the first round largely went to more rural states on a per-capita basis, much of the $175 billion from the second round that was dispersed as of May 1 has gone to larger, harder-hit states.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.The novel coronavirus has ravaged the US economy, with more than 33 million Americans filing for unemployment

The government turned down a call to give the Six Nations Group A status, with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee labelling the decision a 'missed opportunity'.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will reportedly announce the mandatory quarantine on Sunday evening.

Hedge-fund billionaire Julian Robertson received a total of $1.2 million NZ ($800,000 USD) from the New Zealand government to pay employees at his luxury resorts.Not unlike the Paycheck Protection Program that helps American businesses affected by the coronavirus crisis, New Zealand's wage subsidy has been hit by allegations of fraud and favoring large businesses. Robertson has amassed a $4.4 billion fortune running hedge fund Tiger Management.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.A billionaire former hedge-fund manager took hundreds of thousands of dollars from New Zealand's government to pay the staff at the luxury resorts he owns there, data from New Zealand's Ministry of Social Development shows.Julian Robertson's luxury resorts and golf courses received more than $1.2 million

In less than 13 days, all $349 billion allocated for small business relief under the CARES Act were used up.But the funds barely scratch the surface of the 60 million employers and freelancers who were expected to apply.Mark Cuban told Business Insider that major changes need to be implemented to address the problems with the most recent package.Before the next round of funding, Cuban says businesses will need enough money to cover an extended re-opening period as well as an effective testing strategy that instills confidence in returning workers. Visit BI Prime for more stories.Following a rocky rollout of the Payroll Protection loan program, all $349 billion of the funds allocated for small businesses in the $2 trillion CARES Act have been committed - and Mark Cuban says it's too late to

Between 1987 and 1991 she served as an MP with the Radical Party and made headline-grabbing policy pledges, such as offering to have sex with Saddam Hussein in return for peace in Iraq.

Creating fears about shortages of products in shops to 'spread uncertainty' and undermine the West would be straight out of the 'Russian toolbox', one British official said.

Actor Michael Palin, 77, compared the current lockdown with living in North Korea as the nation is under 'strict government control' ahead of Channel 5's re-transmission of his documentary about nation.

Indonesia is yet to report any confirmed cases of the virus outbreak which has spread across the globe in recent weeks and seen the death toll rise to more than 1700.

Keira Knightley transformed into British Intelligence Officer Katharine Gun in the dramatic first trailer for Official Secrets released on Wednesday.

The chair of the House Freedom Caucus said a government shutdown at the group's hands wasn't likely. While both House Speaker Paul Ryan and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi agreed.