Athletes at Tokyo’s Olympic Village forced to isolate after testing positive for COVID

Two athletes living at the Olympic Village in Tokyo have tested positive for COVID-19. 

UK’s third COVID wave may not peak until ‘late August, early September’, minister says

The third wave of the coronavirus pandemic in the UK is not expected to peak until "late August, maybe even early September", a minister has said.

PM and Sunak not isolating despite being pinged after Javid’s positive COVID test

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak will not be isolating despite being pinged after Sajid Javid's positive COVID test, Downing Street has said.

The stage is set: What to expect at England’s theatres, cinemas and clubs from tomorrow

For performance venues around England, it is the week they have been waiting for - being able to legally fill their auditoriums after 17 months.

‘The floods were a huge surprise and shock’: Lives turned upside down at care home

The once in a lifetime flooding in western Germany has been indiscriminate - creating victims from all of life's ages and stages.

‘I was more afraid of my mom than kids who roughed me up’: 50 Cent on using his childhood on screen

Curtis Jackson also goes by the name 50 Cent, but despite the moniker suggesting otherwise it seems the star doesn't do things by halves.

‘Fire and rehire’ battle to intensify amid push to make the employment practice illegal

One of the great puzzles emerging from the last year has been why, in spite of COVID, repeated lockdown, and surging self-isolation, recruitment agencies have seldom been busier.

Syrian refugee recalls how ‘swimming literally saved my life’ as she prepares to compete in Olympics

It has been asked many times in the build up to the Games - why is Japan still hosting them when the COVID-19 pandemic is still unfolding?