Tuesday’s front pages are dominated by the leaked email from a Downing Street official inviting dozens of staff for ‘drinks’ at the Number 10 garden during the first lockdown.
Day: 11 January 2022
BBC News says as many as 100 people were invited to a “bring-your-own-booze” drinks event in the Downing Street garden during the first lockdown.
The Metro says Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick, 47, has been charged with nine more offences, including six counts of rape.
The Guardian says David Sassoli, the president of the European parliament, has died at the age of 65, his spokesman has said.
Arab News says The United States reported 1.35 million new coronavirus infections on Monday, according to a Reuters tally, the highest daily total for any country in the world.
TRT World says In a medical first, doctors in United States have transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life, apparently he’s doing fine three days on.
Aljazeera says North Korea fired what may have been a ballistic missile on Tuesday morning, Japan and South Korea said, less than a week after Pyongyang tested what it said was a hypersonic weapon.
BBC Sport says Manchester United booked an FA Cup fourth-round meeting with Middlesbrough as Scott McTominay’s eighth-minute header proved enough to beat Aston Villa at Old Trafford.