Justin Bieber takes to Instagram to share a trio of selfies during Canadian quarantine

Justin Bieber has been enduring a tranquil lockdown with wife Hailey, 23, at their mansion in Canada. And the 26-year-old pop star took to Instagram on Saturday night to share a slew of selfies that proved time away from the stresses of Los Angeles has been doing his body good. Earlier in the day, Bieber … Read more

Coronavirus: How different countries value a life for calculations

Deciding when to lift the lockdown will likely involve calculations weighing economic costs against saving lives.  Intense social distancing measures have forced businesses to shutter, investor confidence to slide and the government to splurge billions on bailout packages. Reading bleak forecasts with increasing nervousness, hawkish members of the Cabinet are reportedly calling for restrictions to … Read more

Coronavirus UK: Heathrow Airport houses 30 homeless sleepers

An 85-year-old former solider is one of around 30 homeless people sleeping at Heathrow Airport because their immigration status has left them unable to claim benefits – including emergency accommodation – during the coronavirus pandemic. Mike, who did not want to reveal his last name, told MailOnline he had been sleeping in Terminal 5 since … Read more

New trial will send drug to COVID-19 patients’ home to see if it can prevent serious complications

A new global clinical trial is launching to test if a common anti-inflammatory drug colchicine can prevent serious complications caused by the novel coronavirus. The study, which will recruit 6,000 participants from the US, Canada and Europe, will examine colchicine.  Colchicine is most often used to treat gout, a complex form of arthritis that causes … Read more

Online searches for ‘bread’, ‘at home workout’, ‘animal crossing’ and ‘buzz cut’ soar

Online searches are shifting enormously during the coronavirus lockdown as people scour the web for ways to keep themselves informed and entertained.    Worldwide data from search giant Google, for example, reveals an all-time peak in queries pertaining to ‘buzz cut’ as people are forced to be their own barber.   Ireland and Canada are neck and … Read more

World’s oldest piece of mahogany is found in Canada and dates back almost 80MILLION years

World’s oldest piece of mahogany is found in Canada and dates back almost 80MILLION years to when the dinosaurs roamed the planet Chunk of mahogany was found in a piece of rock found near Vancouver Island  It was dated to between 72 and 79 million years old – the end of the Cretaceous Previous evidence … Read more

Trial of Ebola drug shows improvement in US but is suspended in China

The first results from an international experimental US antiviral drug are promising, even as a trial of the same drug in China shuts down. More than half of a group of severely ill coronavirus patients from the US, Canada, Europe and Japan improved after taking remdesivir made by California-based Gilead Sciences. Originally developed as a … Read more

Wonky skull of Styracosaurus leads palaeontologists to question past identifications of species

Wonky skull of five-metre-long Styracosaurus named ‘Hannah’ with a fan of long horns leads scientists to question previous theory that all dinosaurs had symmetrical faces The intact Styracosaurus skull has wonky horns and was discovered in Canada  Asymmetrical face suggests more morphological variability than thought  Scientists fear incomplete skulls have been mistakenly classed as new species … Read more

An Inspector Calls… A review of Beechfield House in Wiltshire

An Inspector Calls… at Beechfield House in Wiltshire, which has a swimming pool and rooms with grand four-poster beds – but the dining room was ‘bleak’ with an ‘odd smell’ Beechfield House in Wiltshire features 19th-century Italianate architecture  The Inspector was impressed with the ‘tasty’ food and honesty of his waiter But the dining room lost … Read more