This article was updated on December 2, 2021.
The European Union spent decades getting rid of its borders. Coronavirus brought them back.
When the pandemic first washed across the bloc in early 2020, panicky countries restored border controls; people and trucks transporting everything from car parts to cabbages spent days in huge lines waiting to cross frontiers. Most air travel ended. Over the last year, as COVID-19 vaccines have become available, those barriers have been lowered — but they haven’t
Passengers arriving into the UK on one of the last flights from South Africa have revealed they were not offered tests and left to mix with hundreds of other passengers despite the country being a hotbed of the new super-mutant ‘jab-dodging’ Botswana Covid variant.
Health Secretary Sajid Javid has announced that flights from South Africa – as well as Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana, Eswatini and Zimbabwe – will be suspended from midday today. They have all been placed on the red
Two cases of the super-mutant Omicron Covid variant have been detected in the UK, the Health Secretary has announced.
Sajid Javid announced this afternoon that two cases of the strain were found in Nottingham and Brentwood, Essex — with both cases linked to travelling to southern Africa.
Some 48 flights carrying up to 300 people each – nearly 15,000 people in total – from South Africa have come to the UK since November 11, when the variant was first discovered
Britain’s daily Covid cases breached 50,000 today for the first time in a month and deaths crept up — as scientists warned the super-mutant Botswana variant could already be in the country.
Department of Health figures show there were 50,091 new cases in the UK in the last 24 hours, up 13 per cent on the previous week.
It marks the first time they had topped 50,000 since October 21 and follows a fortnight of growth, driven mostly by children
The Caribbean is the ultimate culinary melting pot. Take French and Spanish cuisines, mix with African techniques and East Indian flavours, throw in some British and Dutch traditions, add tropical ingredients and abundant exotic fruits. Leave it all to steep, or ‘creolise’ for several centuries – then serve as you sit with sand between the toes and views over a radiant blue sea.
It would be a tragedy to miss it by sticking to the buffet-based ‘burgatory’ of the islands’
A geneticist who wished to prove a man was a famed Native American tribal leader’s great-grandson was asked to attend a séance to seek permission from the late chief’s spirit to test a lock of hair.
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, Danish evolutionary geneticist Eske Willerslev, the man who confirmed the relationship, says he was asked by Ernie LaPointe, 73, to test a lock of Sitting Bull’s hair in order to verify the theory, but not before LaPointe insisted
Seemingly gravity-defying canines, stunning close-ups of insects and mesmerising safari silhouettes — these are among the winning snaps in the nature categories of the 2021 International Photography Awards.
The annual contest — which is in its 19th iteration this year — was established to promote the appreciation of photography, discover emerging talent and salute the achievements of the world’s finest photographers.
It is open to photographers of all types, including professionals, amateurs and student artists.
The title of ‘Nature Photographer
A new and tricky seek-and-find game is challenging players to spot where the hedgehog is hiding in this leafy scene.
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In this idyllic scene, a hedgehog is peering out from among crisp orange, red and brown leaves.
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