Health services in North Korea struggle to cope with Covid-19 outbreak
Half a million people are thought to have developed fevers since late April in the country which lacks medicines and rejected international offers of vaccines.
QPR are hosting the Grenfell Memorial Cup to remember the blaze’s 72 victims.
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The cheapest new car in the UK now costs more than £10,000 - making it more expensive than ever to buy a brand-new vehicle.
Two drivers have been arrested overnight, one for drink driving and the other one for suspected drug driving and possession.
Foreign secretary says topics of conversation ranged from the peace treaty to ‘the importance of free trade’ and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
YORK City have sealed a return to the National League after a five-season absence from the fifth-tier of English football.
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JOHN Studholme (The Cumberland News, letters, May 13) states that ‘people are not happy (with Brexit)’ on the basis of a very small survey.
Pope Francis has expressed his spiritual closeness to Catholics in China and voiced hope that the church there operates in “freedom and tranquility
The government in Warsaw is a strong supporter of Ukraine's bid to join the EU, which Zelenskyy says will determine Ukraine's future.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), will have history on his mind when he hosts almost 200 member states at the U.N agency's annual assembly this week. In a recent white paper laying out his plans for the future of global health security, Tedros began by quoting ancient Greek historian Thucydides, who wanted the world to learn from the mistakes of a devastating plague in Athens in 430 BC. Nearly two-and-a-half millennia later and after COVID-19 has killed at least 15 million people globally, avoiding a repeat of fatal missteps in a future pandemic is the unwritten theme of this week's World Health Assembly in Geneva.
North-east Bangladesh's worst floods in nearly 20 years began receding on Sunday, but rescue workers were struggling to help millions marooned by extreme weather across the region that has killed around 60 people.
Carpet bombing is indiscriminate - devastatingly destructive and utterly random. The town in eastern Ukraine's Donbas has seen its topography alter dramatically in the last 72 hours as the Russians intensify their assault on the region.
LIFEBOAT crews rushed to help the medical evacuation of a patient from Green Island.
Harlequins have secured a place in the Premiership playoffs after recovering from 24-7 down against Gloucester at half-time
Nadhim Zahawi clashed with BBC’s Joanne Coburn over the importance of knowing who called the meeting between the Prime Minister and the senior civil servant Sue Gray, ahead of the publishing of her report into the law-breaking parties at Number 10 and in Whitehall during the pandemic. Mr Zahawi said he has not asked No 10 who called the meeting between Boris Johnson and Sue Gray over the partygate report because he does not deem it necessary. Asked if he had called Downing Street for clarification over the matter, the Education Secretary told the BBC’s Sunday Morning programme: “I don’t need to because I don’t believe that having a meeting with your senior civil servant is material to the outcome. That civil servant is independent in their investigation and has the highest level of professionalism and integrity.”
A POPULAR sports bar is opening its flagship store in Southampton next month – five years after planning was submitted.
Boaters had a close encounter with a waterspout while enjoying a day out on the Ohio River in Cincinnati on Saturday, May 21.Evan Gallagher, who shot this footage, told Storyful he and eight friends were travelling westbound along the river around Sayler Park when they encountered the watery vortex.“We were trying to get back to our dock ahead of a thunderstorm that appeared to be rotating,” Gallagher said. “Suddenly, a waterspout formed over the river about 100 yards behind us. We were unharmed and got back to the dock safely.”The National Weather Service (NWS) issued multiple severe thunderstorm warnings for the region on Saturday. Credit: Evan Gallagher via Storyful
The Game of Thrones creator was speaking exclusively to The Independent during the Santa Fe Literary Festival
Dan Tehan and Karen Andrews both touted as potential challengers, but conservatives confident Dutton has the numbers to succeed Scott Morrison