Police investigate cause of blaze at an unfinished warehouse in city of Icheon A fire at a warehouse in South Korea killed 38 construction workers and left another 10 injured according to reports.The blaze at the unfinished four-storey warehouse site in Icheon on Wednesday, 80km (50 miles) southeast of Seoul, Read more
A 40-year-old is suspected of killing 19-month-old Pavinya Nithiyakumar and three-year-old Nigish Nithiyakumar in east LondonA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after two toddlers were stabbed to death.Nineteen-month-old Pavinya Nithiyakumar and three-year-old Nigish Nithiyakumar died after suffering knife wounds at their home in Ilford, east London. Continue Read more
With her husband Per Wahloo, who died in 1975, Sjöwall’s books paved the way for the likes of Henning Mankell and Stieg LarssonMaj Sjöwall, one half of a Swedish crime-writing couple credited with inventing the “Nordic noir” genre, has died aged 84, her publisher said on Wednesday.Sjöwall, a pioneer of Read more
Company earns $4.9bn as it faces slowdown in digital advertising market amid coronavirusFacebook reported its slowest quarterly growth as a public company, pressured by a global slowdown in the digital advertising market due to the coronavirus pandemic.Like other tech companies, the social network is feeling the squeeze from the global Read more
‘Some people persist in believing that Covid-19 is no worse than a bad dose of flu. They are gravely mistaken’, lead researcher says Via: Coronavirus: Third of those hospitalised with virus in UK dying, study suggests
Estimated 85 kilo haul discovered at Port of Dover Via: £6.5m worth of cocaine and heroin seized from lorry transporting pizzas
It’s all too little, too late — but it is stunningly ironic Via: Priti Patel has left it too late to keep Johnny Foreigner out. The danger to the world is Johnny English
Members of the public heard contact details Via: House of Lords to refer itself to UK's information watchdog after accidentally broadcasting peers' telephone numbers
Dominic Cummings played ‘more than a bystander’s role’ at a meeting of the government’s scientific experts and pushed for lockdown to be imposed sooner, it was claimed today. Via: Coronavirus UK: Dominic Cummings 'intervened at SAGE meeting'
Major American pharmaceutical corporation Pfizer has announced it could have a coronavirus vaccine ready by the fall, and be ready for a broader roll out by the end of 2020. Via: Pfizer says its coronavirus vaccine could be ready in fall