England are hopeful of returning to international action on July 8 for a three-Test series against West Indies behind closed doors following the coronavirus pandemic.

Sir John Major decided ministers should be seen buying tickets to publicise the launch of the prize in November 1994.

The National Lottery website has crashed as punters try to make last-minute bids to grab a record £169m EuroMilions jackpot that must go tonight.

Buying one ticket every week over the life of Britain's National Lottery would have cost £1,625. The same amount, used to buy shares, would have generated £4,000, an investment firm found.

NHS Digital data released today showed more than half (53 per cent) of adults spent money on betting in the last year in England. One in 10 men and one in 20 women admitted to drinking nearly every day.

Father-of-two Mark Goodram, 36, from Bolton, claims to have bought the winning scratchcard from a Waitrose supermarket in Clapham, south London, in April last year.

A UK winner of a £57million EuroMillions jackpot is yet to claim the huge prize more than a week after winning - and may not know they are a multi-millionaire (pictured, The National Lottery sign).

The National Lottery website and app are back up and running ahead of tonight's £5million draw after being down for nine hours today due to a power failure.

Yahya Al-Saud (pictured), who is notorious for praising terrorism in Palestine, was greeted at Portcullis House by Labour frontbencher Fabian Hamilton.

He is busy promoting his new television series This Time Next Year, taking part in dozens of radio, TV and newspaper interviews. 

Brian Stanley William Fortune, 95, fought in Palestine in 1944-45 as a member of the Durham Light Infantry, but nothing else is known about his service.

While she is known for her down to earth personality, rumours have started to swirl that radio host Jackie 'O' Henderson can also be quite the diva. 

Obama didn't notify members of Congress about the trade until it was happening, but the deal, involving the U.S., Qatar and the Taliban, likely took weeks to engineer.

Rubio suggested on Wednesday that he was still mulling over his 2016 options. But an adviser says, 'he has told us to proceed as if he is running for president.'

Monday's site is where the US processed Cuban exiles who fled Castro's communist regime. Rubio was accused of embellishing his parents' story to make it seem like they were among them.

'You have this clown, Marco Rubio. I've been so nice to him!' Trump said, as boos swallowed the room. He also hammered the truant lawmaker for his record of absences in the Senate.

Odds makers are giving both Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush better odds to win the Republican nomination than the current GOP frontrunner Donald Trump.

Presidential hopeful Marco Rubio donned a pair of fashion-forward black boots in New Hampshire Sunday and they made the Florida senator look well-heeled in more ways than one.

In an interview with a local Florida newspaper on Friday, Republican Senator Marco Rubio said the tax law 'probably went too far' in easing the burden on corporations.

After Marco Rubio pointed out several misspelled tweets from Donald Trump, the Republican front-runner went back and deleted the tweets, later posting them with the correct spelling.

Marco Rubio is being criticized for a number of tweets he has posted over the past few days about the increasingly fraught situation in Venezuela, including one in which eh confused a dam.

President Donald Trump said 'everybody needs totally proper documentation,' when fleeing the Bahamas, hours after a ferry kicked off those lacking a proper visa to enter the U.S.

Former champion Jordan Spieth arrived at this week's US Open confident that his struggles on the course are firmly behind him after a string of three consecutive top-10 finishes.

President Donald Trump retweeted a conservative supporter Thursday who predicted the economy will be doing so well by summer Democrats will accuse him of 'hyping' the coronavirus outbreak.

President Trump said he would considering bringing Michael Flynn back to work at the White House and expressed confidence his former national security adviser was going to be cleared. 

Yaron Oren-Pines, an electrical engineer, was paid $47,656 each for 1,450 ventilators by New York state in March.

Schools, restaurants and hair salons across Sweden have remained open amid the Covid-19 pandemic, which has infected upwards of 3.2million people globally.

Downing Street said today there are 'questions that need to be answered' about the origin of coronavirus after Donald Trump claimed it may have originated in a Chinese laboratory.

Donald Trump will leave the White House for the first time in more than a month as he departs for Camp David Friday night after the president has expressed his desire to get out of Washington, D.C.

Moderna Inc has been greenlit by the FDA to conduct a trial of its vaccine. The company has received $483million in funding from the government to carry it out.

The president retweeted a remark by a Kenyan supporter who claimed that Trump had done more for black people than all other presidents combined.

President Trump retweeted a podcaster's claim on Sunday that 'Evidence has surfaced that indicates Barack Obama was the one running the Russian hoax.'

Nova FM Ryan Fitzgerald is known for his love of a prank or two. 

On Sunday, Donald Trump - who has had a rocky friendship and business partnerships with Mike Tyson over the decades - retweeted a clip where Sports Center commented that he was 'still scary'.

President Trump will begin traveling in earnest on Tuesday, with a planned trip to a Honeywell plant in Phoenix, Arizona where masks are being made to combat the coronavirus pandemic.

Nova FM radio host Ryan 'Fitzy' Fitzgerald pranked listeners on Monday with a fake 'retweet' from President Donald Trump.

Donald Trump claimed 'millions of lives were saved' by the federal government's stay-at-home measures and the US economy would be on the rise by the end of the year.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he 'might' wear a mask during his visit to an Arizona factory that expanded to make N95 masks in response to the coronavirus epidemic.

Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski lashed out at the president in claiming he is 'not well' and should let Vice President Mike Pence take over while he gets checked out.

The anti-Trump Lincoln Project group raised $1 million after the president rage-tweeted against its members over a new 'Mourning in America' ad criticizing Trump.

One of the nurses President Trump was hosting in the Oval Office for National Nurses Day told him that she had been wearing the same N95 mask 'for a few weeks now.'

President Trump told advisers that wearing a mask would 'send the wrong message' after he told reporters Wednesday that he wore one 'backstage' during his trip to a mask factory.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI IN DOHA: While there were no obvious signs earlier this year of her resenting the attention that came from her Berlin wins, there tends to come a point when it is burdensome.

The sprinter and her team-mates touched down from their BA flight in London Heathrow on Monday morning after their stint in Qatar, who are set to host the FIFA World Cup in 2022.

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn, shared advice for preparing greenhouses for spring. He advises transferring cuttings in cell trays or in a propagator into small or medium pots.

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn, shared advice for tackling weeds before spring hits, boosting ferns, and growing potatoes extra early.

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for growing half-hardy annuals from seed. He also advised on maintaining roses as they come into rapid growth.

British gardening expert Constance Craig Smith advised on growing flowers from seed. She says the most straightforward seeds of all are hardy annuals that can withstand cold weather.

Monty Don advises on 'snakeshead' plants which appear in gardens in spring. He answered a selection of questions from readers of Weekend magazine.

British gardening expert Nigel Colborn shared advice for growing sweet peas that bloom in July and continue to flower throughout summer.