The Zimbabwean embassy in London has told Sky News that at least 37 citizens of the southern African country have died in Britain during the coronavirus pandemic. It is a revelation which underlines the damage COVID-19 has inflicted on immigrant communities in the UK. Officials said the vast majority of those who died were working
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In the inky darkness, a tiny body wiggles in the sand. It’s 1am and the team and I are gathered around a small bamboo fence on a beach on the Thai island of Koh Samui. Inside the enclosure is a nest of 85 eggs from the critically endangered Hawksbill turtle and one of them has
The world has seen a record rise in coronavirus cases over a 24-hour period, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. The new record is 212,326, with the biggest rise in infections coming in the US, Brazil and India. The previous WHO record for new cases of COVID-19 was 189,077 on 28 June. In the
More than 200,000 people in northeast Spain have been put back into an enforced lockdown following several new outbreaks of coronavirus. Residents in the county of Segria, which includes the city of Lleida, in the Catalonia region, were told by authorities not to leave the area from midday (11am in the UK) on Saturday, and
A scuba diver has died following a shark attack off the coast of Queensland in Australia, emergency services have said. The 20-year-old man was injured in the seas near popular tourist hotspot Fraser Island at about 2pm local time (5am in the UK) on Saturday. Image: Paramedics were called to the scene but were unable