Trump signs executive order forcing Chinese owner of TikTok to sell US assets within 90 days and destroy all American user data Trump gave ByteDance 90 days to divest itself of any assets used to support TikTok in the US The executive order said there is evidence ByteDance ‘might take action that threatens to impair the … Read more
Families made a last-minute dash across the Channel last night ahead of the 4am cut-off this morning when France was added to the UK’s quarantine list. From 4am onwards, all those arriving from France must quarantine for 14 days after the country reported a spike in coronavirus cases. The 11th-hour move sparked chaos for an estimated … Read more
California orders rolling blackouts for up to 250,000 homes and businesses as heat wave grips the state with temperatures hitting 112 degrees and crowds flocking to beaches Rolling blackouts could affect up to 250,000 homes and businesses in the state Such a power cut has not been implemented since 2001, when there was a massive electric … Read more
PAUL THOMAS on… A-levels chaos and the France quarantine By Paul Thomas For The Daily Mail Published: 00:32 BST, 15 August 2020 | Updated: 00:47 BST, 15 August 2020 Advertisement ‘What do you mean your French A-level isn’t good enough to get us on the last ferry before quarantine?’ To order a print of this … Read more
Sir Ian Botham was a few days shy of his 44th wedding anniversary when he received a late-night call from the Prime Minister’s office offering him a peerage. He thought someone was winding him up. ‘The call came totally and utterly out of the blue,’ he says. ‘I was with Kath in Melbourne in late … Read more
Female surfer, 35, is mauled by an enormous shark at a popular NSW beach before her friend punched the predator in a bid to save her A 35-year-old female surfer has been mauled by a shark on the NSW coast She was surfing at Shelly Beach in Port Macquarie about 9.30am Saturday Paramedics rushed to … Read more
Each person working on the HS2 rail project costs the taxpayer almost £100,000 on average, it has emerged. And the chief executive of the troubled high-speed link leads the charge – taking home more than four times the Prime Minister last year with £659,416. The astonishing figures were revealed in HS2’s annual report, which also … Read more
The most terrible conflict in human history ended 75 years ago today with the surrender of Japan on August 15, 1945. In a radio address to his nation, Emperor Hirohito announced his decision to accept the Potsdam Declaration bringing World War II to a close — at an estimated cost of up to 60 million … Read more
Testing travellers twice – once when they arrive in the UK and again later on – could reduce the quarantine time from 14 to 10 days, the Government’s scientific advisors have said. The group’s studies show that when arrivals are ‘double tested’, there’s hardly any difference between quarantining for ten days compared to a fortnight. … Read more
Army commander, 51, caught cheating on his wife during lockdown is cleared of breaking social distancing rules Major General Rupert Jones, 51, accused of breaking rules to carry out an affair Investigation into commitment to army’s standards found ‘no case to answer’ It emerged last month he left his wife Lucinda, 47, and moved out … Read more