Exclusive shops and luxury hotels in London including Claridge’s and The Ritz have been shut and boarded up in the closed-down capital’s West End amid the coronavirus lockdown. High-end stores such as Dior and Givenchy have also been closed as the capital’s death toll surpasses 1,000. It comes as stores adhere to social distancing rules … Read more
North Korea is using the bodies of political prisoners as fertiliser to grow crops for the facility’s guards, a former captive has claimed. The former prisoner, who used the pseudonym Kim Il-soon, exposed the monstrous practice after surviving the hell of Kaechon concentration camp, which is located north of Pyongyang. The guards considered the method … Read more
Investors bet against bookie as doubts grow over £10bn merger between Paddy Power owner and Canadian rival By Calum Muirhead For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 10 February 2020 | Updated: 21:55 BST, 10 February 2020 The blockbuster merger to create the world’s largest gambling company ‘is not a done deal’ and could be … Read more
Zoe Hauser, 67, in a New Delhi hotel where she is being quarantined for 21 days Fears are growing for an elderly British school principal who is being held in a New Delhi hotel during India’s coronavirus lockdown. Zoe Hauser, 67, has developed a high temperature and her concerned family is pressing the Foreign Office … Read more
Pawsitive influence: Children who grow up with dogs and cats in the house are 20 per cent less likely to have social and emotional problems as adults, study claims Researchers found that owning pets was particularly beneficial to only children They looked at the behaviour and social ability of children aged 5 and again at … Read more
Boris Johnson plunged Britain into lockdown today – urging everyone in the country to stop all ‘non-essential’ contact with others. The PM warned that the coronavirus was now in a phase of rapid spread across the UK, with London seeing a particular surge, and it was time to take radical action to stop the NHS … Read more
Children who live near busy roads are at a higher risk of having developmental delays, a new study finds. Researchers say that kids who live less than one-third of a mile away from high-traffic roads such as interstates and highways were twice as likely to score lower on tests of communication skills in infancy and … Read more
Fears are growing for the safety of millions jobs in the UK as the coronavirus outbreak worsens threatening tourism, fast food, retail and leisure sectors. British Airways today revealed coronavirus is threatening its very survival as staff were told there will be job cuts and aircrafts must be mothballed because of the ‘worsening’ global pandemic. … Read more
Stem cells used to grow tiny but functional human organs that can fit together on a computer chip and could be used to finally end animal testing in medical research Medical researchers grew human organs one millionth the size of normal The organs functioned normally, including a heart that beat 60 times a minute The … Read more
Climate change is causing trees and plants to take root in normally barren areas around the world – including the Arctic Circle, according to a new study. UK scientists found warmer and wetter weather makes more greenery grow on savannas and tundras, which collectively make up 40 per cent of the world’s land. Rapid warming … Read more