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Britons are more concerned about the coronavirus than people in any other country, including Spain and Italy, according to a new study. UK researchers conducted surveys on nearly 7,000 people’s thoughts and fears about the virus between mid-March and mid-April, across 10 different countries. While the UK came at the top of the pile, Spain … Read more
Britons are more concerned about the coronavirus than people in any other country, including Spain and Italy, according to a new study. UK researchers conducted surveys on nearly 7,000 people’s thoughts and fears about the virus between mid-March and mid-April, across 10 different countries. While the UK came at the top of the pile, Spain … Read more
Children are capable of transmitting the novel coronavirus, two new international studies claim. Over the course of the pandemic, fewer children compared to adults have fallen ill and, when they are infected, their symptoms are milder. But it’s been unclear if they can spread the virus to adults. Now, researchers in China and Germany say they … Read more
The horrors of Nazi Germany’s only concentration camp for children have been brought to life in harrowing detail as part of a chilling new visualisation. Researchers from Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance painstakingly pieced together the layout of the Preventive Security Police Camp for Polish Youth in Lodz, where hundreds of children were beaten and … Read more
Russian scientists suggest the mysterious ‘Tunguska event’ explosion of 1908 was caused by an iron asteroid that entered the Earth’s atmosphere and then bounced back into space. The flying asteroid is thought to have skimmed the planet at a low altitude above Siberia, causing an explosion that flattened around 80 million trees over an area … Read more
The horrors of Nazi Germany’s only concentration camp for children have been brought to life in harrowing detail as part of a chilling new visualisation. Researchers from Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance painstakingly pieced together the layout of the Preventive Security Police Camp for Polish Youth in Lodz, where hundreds of children were beaten and … Read more
WHEN WILL VICTORY BELLS RING OUT? British tanks storming into Denmark, 500,000 German PoWs taken in Hamburg and Cabinet ministers told to stay in London – how the last days of WWII in Europe were reported in May 1945 On Friday, May 4 1945, British troops were rolling into Denmark, crossing German border into Jutland … Read more
A British couple travelling the world with pet pug Pebbles have been stranded in Costa Rica for seven weeks after they refused a repatriation flight in case they would need to leave their beloved dog behind. Travellers Abbey Walsh, 25, and Hugh Thomas, also 25, flew into the Central American country on March 12 for … Read more
Italians can visit their relatives again while millions of people are returning to work at construction sites and factories as Europe’s longest lockdown is lifted today. Restaurants can re-open for takeaways from today and Italians are allowed to visit parks – after the country yesterday saw its lowest death toll since March 10. However, bars … Read more
‘Let us not forget the toils ahead’: How Churchill’s VE Day message and photos of jubliant Londoners hold haunting relevance today… as locked-down Britons prepare to mark 75 years since end of WWII Images of Britons celebrating victory over Nazi Germany have reemerged ahead of VE Day’s 75th anniversary Evocative pictures show the streets of … Read more