Month: September 2020

The New Guinea singing dog, known for making harmonic sounds with its high-pitched barks and howls, was believed to only exist in captivity – until now. Scientists spotted a pack of these dogs running wild in the hills of Indonesia after the animals were believed to have gone extinct in the wild 50 years ago. […]

Kanye West has denied speculation he is running for president in an effort to help Donald Trump gain re-election and insisted that no one is bankrolling his campaign.   The rapper discussed his unlikely presidential bid in an interview with Nick Cannon’s podcast, Cannon’s Class.   In a preview clip of the interview, West brought up rumors […]

‘People are going to find Rishi’s tax rises a lot harder to swallow’ To order a print of this Paul Thomas cartoon or one by Pugh, visit Mailpictures.newsprints.co.uk or call 0191 6030 178 DailyMail Online

An $80 million military plane has crashed in Virginia, with four people parachuting to safety shortly before it hit the ground. The crash happened at 3:50pm near Nelsonia, along Mason Road, on Monday afternoon.  A Navy spokesman confirmed to DailyMail.com that all four people on board – two pilots, two crew members – bailed out […]

The Queen was crippled by obsessive compulsive disorder as a child and used to line up her pencils in perfectly straight lines to feel ‘safe,’ a new book has claimed. A new book titled The Governess, released last month, has made the extraordinary claim about Britain’s longest reigning monarch, 94. The book, listed as ‘historical […]

Next year’s GCSE and A-level exams could be pushed back to give pupils more time to study the syllabus, the Education Secretary has said. Gavin Williamson said England’s exams regulator, Ofqual, was working with the education sector to decide whether there should be a ‘short delay’ to the exam timetable in 2021. He told the […]

Vegan milk brand Oatly is facing a boycott from UK customers after it sold a £150million stake to a group lead by a private equity firm whose boss is a major Donald Trump donor. The Swedish firm sold its stake to a group of investors – including Oprah Winfrey and Natalie Portman – lead by Blackstone.  […]

An Australian journalist who kept a diary of the coronavirus pandemic has been arrested in China with no reasons given. Cheng Lei, an English-language presenter with the state-owned China Global Television Network since 2012, wrote withering Facebook posts about the Communist Party. The Beijing-based business journalist, who studied in Brisbane and Melbourne, mocked the earlier lockdown […]

The Jockey Club’s group chief executive stepped down after making comments about the Black Lives Matter movement and sharing a meme about Britain’s Got Talent singer Susan Boyle, sources said. Delia Bushell, 48, tendered her resignation on Sunday after independent barrister Jack Mitchell found evidence to support a number of the allegations of misconduct against her – […]

Britain’s most senior paediatrician claims children are at a greater risk of contracting measles than coronavirus. President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Professor Russell Viner advised parents to send their children back to school, claiming he’s ‘far more worried about the risk to children of measles than of Covid’. Later today, Boris Johnson will tell […]

A thorn in the finger is an everyday injury for most gardeners — and for tree surgeon Lindsay MacPherson it’s more routine than most.  So when he snagged his finger on a blackthorn tree he was chopping, he naturally thought little of it. But that little thorn caused an infection that left him in hospital […]

Last Thursday in my column, I celebrated an exciting new range of candles called Scents of Normality, designed to evoke the smell of places and events that have been cancelled by lockdown.  These candles may sound like a joke, but I am happy to say they are real. The Festival candle is described like this: […]

A holiday island in the Canaries has had to shut down its beaches after being hit with a second wave of coronavirus. El Hierro previously registered only a handful of cases and no deaths.  But a second wave of the virus has left at least 40 people infected – prompting local authorities to take urgent […]

Business leaders have warned that the Chancellor’s job retention bonuses will not stop them from laying off staff. Rishi Sunak is offering employers a £1,000 grant for every furloughed employee they keep on when the job retention scheme winds down at the end of October. But fewer than one in five business leaders who have […]

British holidaymakers are rushing to book early flights home from Portugal as the country looks set to go back onto the UK’s quarantine list. Direct flights from Faro to London are selling fast, starting at around £250 for a seat mid-week and rising to more than £300 on Friday. London-based businessman Sergio Dionisio is predicting […]

Rishi Sunak is considering raising fuel duty by as much as 5p to pay the nation’s coronavirus bill, a Treasury source has claimed. The Chancellor is looking at axing a ten year freeze on the tax in his autumn Budget, which would see fuel prices rise by 2p immediately in line with inflation. But a […]

Thousands of people with type 2 diabetes are being enrolled into an NHS trial of ‘soups and shakes’ diet which has been proven to reverse the illness    A total of 5,000 patients in England have been signed up to trial the radical 12-month diet programme to slim them down and restore their health. Volunteers will […]

President Donald Trump defended the actions of Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, saying the 17-year-old ‘probably would have been killed’ by an angry mob if he hadn’t fired at them with the illegal gun he was carrying. ‘He was trying to get away from them I guess, it looks like, and he fell on then they […]

President Donald Trump lashed out at Joe Biden after the Democratic nominee gave what Trump called a ‘strange speech’ in Pittsburgh where he held the president responsible for escalating violence between cops, Black Lives Matter protesters and Trump supporters.      ‘His strange speech today that he made in Pittsburgh, he didn’t mention the fact – he […]

The most powerful tool for better health is education. To get our country off its sickbed and functioning again, it is crucial that we fully reopen both our schools and our universities. But that won’t happen as long as millions are terrified of returning to normal life. The Government urgently needs to send out a […]

For decades, the scourge of type 2 diabetes has caused untold misery. Almost four million Britons are now living with the condition. Incredibly, one in six NHS beds is occupied by a patient with the condition, which can lead to terrible complications and shortens sufferers’ lives by an average of six years – all while […]