Airlines call for top holiday destinations to be spared 14-day quarantine rule

Ministers have been sent a list of 45 countries to prioritise for quarantine-free ‘air bridges’, it emerged last night. Airlines drew up the index last week at the request of the Government amid mounting fury over ‘unenforceable’ plans for a 14-day quarantine imposed on all arrivals. The list, agreed by airlines including British Airways, Easyjet … Read more

Andrea Bocelli secretly battled COVID-19 in MARCH and is donating his blood to help with vaccine

Andrea Bocelli has revealed he and members of his family secretly battled COVID-19 two months ago. The Italian opera star, 61, has played a prominent global role in raising awareness amid the coronavirus pandemic, fronting the biggest live-streamed classical music event of all time at a deserted Duomo di Milano cathedral on Easter Sunday in April. … Read more

Andrea Bocelli secretly battled COVID-19 in MARCH and is donating his blood to help with vaccine

Andrea Bocelli has revealed he and members of his family secretly battled COVID-19 two months ago. The Italian opera star, 61, has played a prominent global role in raising awareness amid the coronavirus pandemic, fronting the biggest live-streamed classical music event of all time at a deserted Duomo di Milano cathedral on Easter Sunday in April. … Read more

WHO official warns coronavirus is not defeated and Europe must brace for a deadly second wave

‘Time for preparation, not celebration’: Senior WHO official warns coronavirus is not defeated and Europe must brace for a deadly second wave this winter WHO Europe director Dr Hans Kluge has warned about a second wave in winter Says that countries should preparing for more virulent disease, ‘not celebrating’ Europe has 1,934,081 confirmed coronavirus cases and … Read more

WHO official warns coronavirus is not defeated and Europe must brace for a deadly second wave

‘Time for preparation, not celebration’: Senior WHO official warns coronavirus is not defeated and Europe must brace for a deadly second wave this winter WHO Europe director Dr Hans Kluge has warned about a second wave in winter Says that countries should preparing for more virulent disease, ‘not celebrating’ Europe has 1,934,081 confirmed coronavirus cases and … Read more

Twelve-year-old keeps calm as huge animal rears up on him while he walks through the Italian hills 

Careful, you’ve got a bear behind! Twelve-year-old boy keeps calm as huge animal rears up on him while he walks through the Italian hills Alessandro, 12, stayed calm as a bear spotted him in the woods and followed him Stumbled across the bear in Sudtirol, northeastern Italy, and filmed the scene   In lockdown he had studied … Read more