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  • Blast strikes Dutch COVID-19 test centre; police call it an attack

    An explosives team visited the site in the town of Bovenkarspel, 55 km (35 miles) from the capital, where police said a metal cylinder involved in the explosion had been recovered. It "must have been placed" there, police spokesman Menno Hartenberg told Reuters. A security guard in the testing centre alerted police to a "loud blast" that broke several windows shortly before 7 a.m., a police statement said.

  • Trump took $10bn from hospital funds to pay for Warp Speed instead of asking Congress for cash

    $10bn was set aside by Congress to help care providers pay for staffing, protective gear, care for uninsured individuals, and vaccine distribution

  • Ben Fogle Shuts Down Piers Morgan's Question About Meghan Markle On Good Morning Britain

    He appeared on GMB to talk about his new Chernobyl documentary... so naturally Piers' first question was about Meghan.

  • US Catholic group tells followers to avoid Johnson & Johnson vaccine

    A directive from the Catholic church body says the J&J vaccine was produced with abortion-derived cell lines

  • Airlines set to launch international vaccine passport as part of summer holidays plan

    The first digital vaccine certificate is set to be launched by the world's airlines this month as part of a four-step plan for summer holidays being considered by the Department for Transport (DfT). The Travel Pass app, developed by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), will allow passengers to present pre-departure test or vaccine certificates on arrival at their destination, enabling them to sidestep quarantine or other restrictions. IATA is in talks with the DfT over the app, to which immunity certificates for those who have had Covid but have not been vaccinated could be added. It will be trialled by 10 airlines including IAG, which owns BA, Qantas and Singapore Airlines, starting initially with pre-test data but ready to be adapted to include vaccine certificates once they are digitised. At present, most countries are using paper to confirm people's inoculations, which the airlines are concerned could delay the introduction of a travel pass with both vaccinations and test data and lead to lengthy queues at airport immigration desks. The app is part of a four-stage approach IATA has proposed to the DfT that would see international travel restart in May, with pre-departure testing or vaccines being used for entry to a country before the eventual removal of all restrictions to allow free travel between "green list" countries. It proposes three tiers of countries including a "red list", where there may still be quarantine and pre-departure testing, an "amber list" where quarantine is replaced by tests or vaccine certificates, and a "green list" where travel corridors between low-risk countries could allow unrestricted travel.

  • Exclusive: French bankers seek EU law to move euro clearing from London - sources

    France's banking industry body wants a new European Union law that would force non-EU banks to shift swathes of euro derivatives clearing from the City of London to Frankfurt, people familiar with the matter said. Since Britain fully left the European Union in December the City of London finance industry has lost access to its biggest market and trading in euro shares and swaps have moved to the EU. Sources told Reuters that the French Banking Federation (FBF) does not believe it would work if non-EU banks were asked voluntarily to move trillions of euros in interest rate swaps positions from the London Stock Exchange's LCH clearing arm to the bloc.

  • Furlough scheme and self-employment grant extended until Sep

    Chancellor Rishi Sunak has confirmed the furlough scheme will be extended to the end of September, as will support for the self-employed. Employees will continue to receive 80% of their wages until the scheme ends, but firms will be asked to contribute 10% in July and 20% in August and September as the scheme is gradually phased out The fourth grant of the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) will cover February to April, worth 80% of average trading profits up to £7,500.

  • New book claims Obama saw Biden’s White House run as ‘ageing politician having his last hurrah’

    A Biden aide puts the campaign strategy as: ‘You put your dumb uncle in the basement’

  • Royal adviser who complained about Meghan's 'bullying' still working for Kate and William

    Jason Knauf also helped the Duchess of Sussex write a letter to her father after her wedding.

  • Budget 2021: Rishi Sunak’s tax raid on families and big businesses amid record borrowing of nearly £600billion

    The Chancellor gave away another £65bn in lifelines including extending furlough and stamp duty holiday - but it will be funded with eye-watering borrowing

  • NHS staff: how would you feel if a Covid vaccine was compulsory for work?

    NHS staff: how would you feel if a Covid vaccine was compulsory for work?We would like to hear from NHS and care home staff about how they feel if a Covid vaccine was made compulsory A close-up of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine in a fridge at a mass vaccination centre. Photograph: Matthew Horwood/Getty Images

  • ‘Reckless and dangerous’: Texas governor’s decision to abandon Covid safeguards sparks angry backlash

    The residents of the largest US state will not follow the mask mandate from 10 March

  • Some Fox News staff furious at ‘mini-Goebbels’ Kayleigh McEnany being hired as commentator, report says

    Former White House press secretary branded a ‘serial liar’ by critics

  • Nicola Sturgeon facing calls to resign as witnesses back Alex Salmond's evidence on key meetings

    Nicola Sturgeon is facing calls to resign after two witnesses in the Alex Salmond scandal corroborated his version of key events and provided damning evidence she repeatedly misled parliament. In a potentially devastating development for the First Minister, ahead of her appearance before a Holyrood inquiry on Wednesday morning, a pair of former special advisers contradicted her claims about two meetings in 2018. Ms Sturgeon has told parliament she only found out about the allegations when Mr Salmond visited her home on April 2, 2018 and but she refused to intervene. Last week she denied during First Minister's Questions the identity of one of the women was shared with Geoff Aberdein, Mr Salmond's chief of staff, "to the best of my knowledge". But Duncan Hamilton, a former SNP MP and junior counsel, said the name of a complainant was given to Mr Aberdein by a senior official shortly after Mr Salmond was informed of the government's investigation into sexual misconduct claims on March 7, 2018.

  • What happened to George Floyd, whose alleged killer goes on trial next week

    The trial is one of the biggest civil rights cases in a generation

  • Exclusive: Hollyoaks stars Billy Price and Kieron Richardson react to Sid Sumner cliffhanger

    Is it the end?

  • Anya Taylor-Joy wrongly called ‘woman of colour’ after Golden Globes win

    US-born actor has a Scottish-Argentine father

  • Trump biographer compares him to Al Capone as prosecutors hone in on his finance chief

    ‘Al Capone ultimately went down because they got his accountant’ says author of TrumpNation

  • Nicola Sturgeon hits back at Alex Salmond claims at Holyrood inquiry appearance - live updates

    Nicola Sturgeon facing calls to resign as witnesses back Alex Salmond's evidence on key meetings Tom Harris | The cynical SNP has shattered any faith in the Scottish constitution Nicola Sturgeon has come out fighting in her long-awaited appearance before the Holyrood inquiry into her government's unlawful investigation of Alex Salmond, amid calls for her to resign. The First Minister apologised for the "serious mistakes" made in the handling of Mr Salmond's alleged sexual harassment claims, but insisted that she was not out to "get" her predecessor. She said there is not "a shred of evidence" to support her former mentor's claim there was a "malicious and concerted" attempt to see him removed from public life and she has consistently denied breaching the ministerial code. Ms Sturgeon is facing calls from the Scottish Conservatives to step down after two witnesses backed up Alex Salmond's claim that she misled parliament about a meeting with her predecessor. The Scottish Government launched an investigation into the former first minister after a number of women came forward with allegations of sexual harassment. But a successful judicial review by Mr Salmond resulted in the investigation being ruled unlawful and "tainted by apparent bias", with a £512,250 payout for legal fees. Mr Salmond was later acquitted of 13 charges following a criminal trial at Edinburgh's High Court. Follow the live updates below.

  • England on course to end social distancing in mid-June, Matt Hancock says

    Comment goes further than ‘roadmap’ - which said review will decide, based on progress over next three months