Self-employed workers will be able to apply for a grant of up to £2,500 a month to help them cope with the financial impact of...
Pressure is growing on government to act to protect construction workers against the coronavirus risk.
People in Brazil have expressed anger at President Jair Bolsonaro's handling of the coronavirus pandemic by banging pots and pans...
Ingrid Escamilla, 25, was killed by the man she lived with, and forensic workers leaked pictures of her body.
Shattered remnants from the volcano that generated a devastating tsunami in Indonesia a year ago have been pictured on the seafloor for...
Computer models suggest these underwater landslides would have been capable of sending waves crashing on to the Falklands' coastline that...
The government has advised against mass gatherings in the UK for the foreseeable future - effectively cancelling all large-scale events,...
Glastonbury's famous Pyramid Stage will remain dark in June, as the festival becomes the latest event to be cancelled due to coronavirus.
Six months after ex-Chancellor Sajid Javid announced an end to austerity, many families still rely on food banks to survive. The BBC's...
But he said schools, public transport and public squares would remain open, avoiding the kind of shutdown seen in some nations.Australia...
The EU is banning travellers from outside the bloc for 30 days in an unprecedented move to seal its borders amid the coronavirus crisis.
Olympic organisers have warned "no solution will be ideal" in preparing for Tokyo 2020 after being accused of putting athletes "in danger".
The government is being urged to do more for families and workers affected by the coronavirus crisis after it announced £350bn of help...
The octopus (plural octopuses) is a soft-bodied, eight-limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda (/ɒktˈɑːpədə/, ahk-TAH-pə-də). Around 300...
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