Outdoor group socialising allowed from Monday but ad campaign stresses Covid risks of indoor meeting Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Boris Johnson will stress the need for people to be cautious on Monday as England takes its first significant step towards easing lockdown restrictions for adults. […]
Year: 2021
Thick dust carrying extremely high levels of hazardous particles blows in from drought-hit Mongolia The second sandstorm to hit China in less than a fortnight has reversed the colours of the sky, turning the sun blue and the heavens yellow. Beijing woke on Sunday morning shrouded in thick dust carrying […]
Guardian research reveals figure as experts accuse government of hiding the true scale of the problem UK schools recorded more than 60,000 racist incidents in the past five years, the Guardian has found, as experts accused the government of failing to meet “basic safeguarding” measures by hiding the true scale […]
Scientists alarmed as prime minister suggests people have had enough ‘days off’ while Labour pushes the right to work from home Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Boris Johnson has sparked new controversy over when employees should return to their workplaces by suggesting people have had enough […]
US secretary of state says Washington ‘horrified’ after bloodiest day since February coup The killing by Myanmar’s military of more than 100 pro-democracy protesters in the single deadliest day since February’s coup has drawn outrage from across the world, and calls for a stronger global response. The US secretary of […]
More than 100 state and private schools have been named on a website set up to expose misogyny How schoolgirls finally found voice to tell of sexual abuse Sexual abuse by pupils is widespread across state and private education, according to a leading police officer, who has revealed that more […]
Suez Canal Authority warns that removing containers from grounded ship will delay operation An intense effort to free a container ship blocking the Suez canal is struggling with strong tides and winds, according to the Egyptian head of the effort, who said he still hoped to free the vessel within […]
British cyclist reportedly tested positive for banned steroid Ukad has ‘no record’ of what happened UK Anti-Doping has been placed under formal investigation by the World Anti-Doping Agency for allowing British Cycling to conduct its own probe into one of its riders in the lead-up to the London Olympics in […]
Exclusive: Teleperformance, which employs 380,000 people, plans to use specialist webcams to watch staff ‘Missing from desk’: AI webcam raises remote surveillance concerns Thousands of staff at one of the world’s biggest call centre companies face being monitored by webcams to check whether they are eating, looking at their phones […]
Arrests made after reports of bottles being thrown at police and protesters being pepper sprayed Violence erupted between protesters and police in Bristol again on Friday night as more than a thousand demonstrators gathered for a third “kill the bill” demonstration within a week. Dozens of people were involved in […]