Getty Images England fans are gathering as excitement builds ahead of their team’s Euro 2020 final against Italy. Supporters began arriving at Wembley hours before the eagerly anticipated 20:00 BST kick-off at the stadium, which will host 60,000 fans later. Long queues have been forming outside pubs since early morning. The Queen and Boris Johnson
Captain Tony Trim is one of the workers striving to clear the rubble from the collapse of the 12-storey tower block in Surfside, Florida. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue shared a video showing the “enormous” pile of debris that the team are facing. Eight-six people are confirmed dead and dozens are still missing.
Getty Images The UK’s largest employers’ body has urged the government to bring forward changes to Covid self-isolation rules. The CBI says it would help firms deal with staff shortages and help ensure the next phase of lockdown reopening is a “confident” not “anxious” process. In a six-point plan published on Sunday, the CBI says
Truckee Meadows Fire & Rescue Wildfires are raging in the west of the United States as the region is hit by a heatwave that has brought record temperatures to several areas. Communities have been told to evacuate as firefighters struggle to battle the blazes in the extreme conditions. Las Vegas matched its all-time temperature high
Mars Scientific UK businessman Sir Richard Branson is about to realise a lifetime’s ambition by flying to the edge of space. He’ll ride his Virgin Galactic rocket plane on Sunday to an altitude where the sky turns black and the Earth’s horizon curves away into the distance. The entrepreneur says he wants to evaluate the
Getty Images A group of philanthropists, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, are to provide £93.5m emergency funding to cover some UK foreign aid cuts. They said the temporary funding would help save “critical projects” and ensure progress was not “wasted”. The government has decided to reduce this year’s spending on overseas aid from
“Do the English really put pineapple on pizza?” asks the Italian daily La Repubblica in a piece by its London correspondent. “Rarely,” it concludes, “but the real problem is adding cream to spaghetti carbonara.” Sunday’s Euro final is not just a clash of sport, but of cultures. “The thing about us Italians is that we
PA Media The Queen and Boris Johnson have sent messages of support to the England team ahead of the Euro 2020 final. The monarch recalled presenting the World Cup trophy to Bobby Moore in 1966 as she praised the current team’s “spirit, commitment and pride with which you have conducted yourselves”. And in a letter
Reuters Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has won the country’s delayed elections with an overwhelming majority, the election board said on Saturday. The board said Mr Abiy’s Prosperity Party won 410 out of 436 seats, giving him another five-year term in office. However, a fifth of the country failed to carry out voting overall due
EPA The injured widow of Haiti’s president has described the moment assassins “riddled” her husband with bullets after bursting into their home in the middle of the night. Martine Moïse said the attack happened so quickly, her husband Jovenel was unable to “say a single word”. President Moïse was killed on 7 July, allegedly by
Extreme heat is building in the United States, with forecasts of record-breaking temperatures in the states of California and Nevada. It comes just weeks after another dangerous heatwave hit North America, and the region has experienced the hottest June on record. California’s Death Valley on Friday recorded a high of 54.4C (130F), with similar heat
EPA A statue of an American Confederate general at the centre of a violent rally in Charlottesville nearly four years ago is being taken down. The statue of General Robert E Lee and another of General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson will be put into storage. Plans to remove the Lee statue prompted a white nationalist rally
Getty Images Ministers are considering exempting fully vaccinated NHS staff in England from having to self-isolate if they are traced as a Covid contact. Health bosses have been urging the government to change the rules amid fears of staff shortages. Sources said no decision had been taken and ministers wanted to see evidence the move
Social media and technology have only bolstered this phenomenon of the famous basketball recruit. (Amber Matsumoto/Yahoo Sports) LeBron James is only 36. Emphasis on the only because he’ll be entering his 19th NBA season this October. For as long as James has been the talk of the sports world, one might think the Los Angeles
Haiti has asked for foreign troops to be sent to the country to protect key infrastructure after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. The request was sent by the government to the US and the UN, but the US says it has no plans to offer military assistance “at this time,” Haitian police earlier said
Getty Images The White House has defended its role in helping to broker a deal that will shroud art deals by President Joe Biden’s son in secrecy. Paintings by Hunter Biden are expected to fetch up to $500,000 (£360,000) apiece at auction this autumn. The president’s spokeswoman said “reasonable safeguards” had been applied to the