The release says 43 people involved in the cluster are under the age of 40.
Day: 9 August 2021
PM says UN report is ‘sobering reading’ but Labour say he is ‘failing to treat the crisis with the seriousness it deserves’
Actress Milla Jovovich’s iconic bright copper hair from the 1997 film The Fifth Element is back!
We For India: Saving Lives: Annie Lennox, Ed Sheeran and Mick Jagger will join Bollywood superstars to raise funds for Covid relief work in India.
Online grocer Ocado has announced its employees will be allowed to work remotely from a country of their choosing for up to a month.
Anne Sacoolas – the suspect in the death of British teenager Harry Dunn – may have been “distracted by her mobile phone” before the fatal crash, his family lawyers claimed.
Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has told Sky News the UK is “on track” to meet its “challenging” target of hitting net zero emissions by 2050.
National Geographic says climate change has already touched every corner of the planet and will continue to reshape the human experience for centuries to come.
The Guardian says human activity is changing the Earth’s climate in ways “unprecedented” in thousands of years, with some of the changes now inevitable and “irreversible”.
Daily Mail says the Earth is likely to warm by 1.5C within the next 20 years, a decade earlier than expected — and heatwaves, flooding and droughts will be more frequent.
The Sun says HUMANS are warming up the planet faster than ever before in a ‘code red’ for humanity, a damning climate change report warns today.
The i says the latest update to the UK’s traffic light travel restrictions came on Wednesday 4 August, with movement on all three lists.
The Guardian says the government has launched a £4m fund to back projects trialling running fibre optic broadband cables through water pipes to help connect hard-to-reach homes without digging up roads.
The Times says middle-class parents should open their minds to apprenticeships when their children receive their A-level results tomorrow, Gavin Williamson has said.
The Times says Afghanistan slid towards collapse yesterday as the Taliban stormed three more cities and pilots deserted the air force after a colleague was murdered.
The Guardian says an eight-year-old Hindu boy is being held in protective police custody in east Pakistan after becoming the youngest person ever to be charged with blasphemy in the country.
The i says Afghan journalists working for the British media will be able to flee to the UK if their lives are endangered by the resurgence of the Taliban, the Foreign Secretary has announced.
COVID-19 safety rules will be modified in the United Arab Emirates to increase the number of people allowed at weddings, hotels, and shopping malls across the country, according to health officials.
The i says the UK faces an evictions crisis within weeks as hundreds of thousands of renters either on furlough or behind on payments have pandemic support measures stripped.
Saudi Arabian Olympic champion and Karate player Tarek Hamedi was welcomed with a grand celebration at Jeddah airport following his silver medal win at the Tokyo Games, videos shared on social media showed on Monday.
The Guardian says an Ariana Grande fan who attended the Manchester Arena concert in 2017 has been found dead in her bedroom after experiencing depression and PTSD following the bombing.
The Times says England will raise the possibility of postponing this winter’s Ashes series unless guarantees about quarantine exemptions for players’ families can be given.
The Guardian says thousands of people have fled wildfires that are destroying vast swathes of pine forest and razing homes on Greece’s second-largest island, Evia.
The Times says a new UN report will set out a stark message on the state of the climate crisis, raising pressure on governments ahead of the Cop26 summit in Glasgow this autumn.
The i says the world is getting “dangerously close” to running out of time to avert catastrophic climate change, Cop26 President Alok Sharma has said.