The return-to-school plans for autumn in England will involve entire year groups staying in separate “bubbles”. A draft of the plans, set to be announced later this week, has been […]
Wirecard files for insolvency a week after €1.9bn went missing
Payments firm Wirecard has filed for insolvency proceedings – a week after disclosing that €1.9bn (£1.7bn) had gone missing. The implosion comes less than two years after it was admitted […]
US Army offers reward for missing soldier clues
US Army investigators are offering a cash reward for information about the disappearance of a soldier from her base at Fort Hood, Texas. Private First Class Vanessa Guillen, 20, was […]
US policemen charged for shoving elderly protester
Two US policemen have been charged with second-degree assault after they were filmed pushing a 75-year old protester to the ground, seriously injuring him. Aaron Torgalski, 39, and Robert McCabe, […]
Yearning for the sound of tourists in the Alps again
As cases of Covid-19 start to fall across Europe, lockdowns are being relaxed and more travel is being permitted. That’s a relief for alpine tourist resorts, which were forced to […]
Call for clear face masks to be ‘the norm’
It’s now part of daily life now for many of us – struggling to work out what someone in a supermarket or at work is saying when they’re wearing a […]
‘Virus may be here for year’ so schools must open
“The coronavirus could be with us for a year or more” so children cannot continue to stay out of school for “months and months” longer, says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson. […]
Denver weather calls for two more hot days before a cool down on Thursday.
Two more days of unseasonably warm weather is in store for the Denver metro area before a cool front brings relief by Thursday. Denver’s high temperature on Tuesday is expected […]
Families still wait for free school meal vouchers
The Department for Education says it does not know how many vouchers for free school meals have been delivered to parents over the past month. A scheme to give poor […]
More Coloradans applied for unemployment last week than in all of 2019 as coronavirus’ toll deepens
More than 104,000 Coloradans filed for unemployment last week, a single-week record that eclipsed the number of claims filed in all of 2019. And that’s with a significant chunk of […]