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What are the India, Brazil, South Africa and UK variants?

Coronavirus is changing or mutating in ways that may help it spread better or resist existing vaccines.

I’ve spent so much of my life dreaming of homes I cannot afford | Deborah Levy

In this extract from Real Estate, the final instalment of Deborah Levy’s ‘living autobiography’ series, she reflects on fantasy properties, empty nests and the relationship between property and freedomI walked to Central Park. It had suddenly become warm and I was so jet lagged I thought I might fai...

Covid: Travel firms reject 'overly cautious' green list

The UK will be "left behind" if other countries open up travel more quickly, the industry says.

Post Office scandal: Former staff contacted over prosecutions

It is contacting former workers potentially caught up in the UK's most widespread miscarriage of justice.

‘I walked out of Avengers profoundly changed’: our writers’ favourite cinema moments

Big-screen highlights, from a magnificent montage in The Royal Tenenbaums to an all-time high in Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo BayCatherine Bray on cinema’s long-awaited returnIt is so difficult to pin down a “happiest” moment in the cinema, as opposed to the clearer spikes of fear, amus...

Streaming: the best springtime movies

From the floral euphoria of Bambi to outright pastoral terror in The Wicker Man, cinema’s best spring stories are a heady bunchSpring is emphatically here, albeit in somewhat damp form of late; coinciding with the vaccine drive and an incremental lifting of lockdown restrictions has rarely felt like...

Not A Mere Mortal?

The opposition parties belonging to the Torrox Town Hall are spitting feathers over a ruling-party councillor who's allegedly building a pool with no licence.

Which Caribbean island was invaded by US in 1983? The Weekend Quiz

From Murmillo to mollymawk, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 Who ruled much of England from AD911 as Lady of the Mercians?2 What type of bird is a mollymawk?3 What is the world’s lowest freshwater lake?4 Which eternal optimist was created by Eleanor H Porter?5 Which music venue moved from...

Four-year-old boy buys 918 SpongeBob ice lollies for $2,600 on Amazon

Noah, a four-year-old from New York, loves SpongeBob. A lot.

The best recent science fiction and fantasy – reviews roundup

Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon; Dark Lullaby by Polly Ho-Yen; We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker; The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley; and The Cottingley Cuckoo by AJ ElwoodSorrowland by Rivers Solomon (#Merky, £12.99) is an exhilarating journey to the outer limits of science fiction, steeped in the southe...

Philippines Covid surge throws country into disarray

A second Covid surge is putting renewed pressure on the country's healthcare and economy.

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The UK Closes Door on Spain

The UK Government published the following information concerning travelling restrictions:

Canary Islands Not on The Green List as Cases on Lanzarote Rise

The Canary Islands on not on the UK's Green List as announced Mr Shapps this afternoon and he says COVID levels across the UK are fairly level and "we're not going back to those bad old days of enormous prevalence" because of the vaccine and mass testing. The daily cases of Covid have shot up in...