Biden Details Trillion Plan to Rebuild Infrastructure and Reshape the Economy
The president began selling his proposal on Wednesday, saying it would fix 20,000 miles of roads and 10,000 bridges, while also addressing climate change and racial inequities and raising corporate taxes. Read more...
Dog owner's warning over deadly plant that caused her golden retriever severe brain damage
Chloe Allen, 22, has issued a warning over deadly lord-and-ladies plants after her golden retriever Lola was left severely brain damaged and had to be put down. Read more...
Pandemic Helps Stir Interest in Teaching Financial Literacy
Two dozen states are considering bills on the subject. Proponents say student debt and heightened interest in economic inequality are behind the efforts. Read more...
Turkey Fights for Return of a Work It Says Was Looted
A bench trial in Federal District Court in Manhattan concerns an ancient idol held by Christies. Read more...
Why are GPs still refusing to see patients face-to-face
Helen Leaford, 62, from Baisingstoke, pictured left with her daughter Sarah, was forced to borrow 300 from friends to see a private doctor after her own GP refused to see her face-to-face. Read more...
In Exterminate All the Brutes, Raoul Peck Takes Aim at White Supremacy
After the success of I Am Not Your Negro, HBO gave Peck carte blanche for his next big project. What resulted is a sweeping meditation on colonialism and the nature of truth itself. Read more...
DEBORAH ROSS Want to avoid a TV homicide? Don't live beside the seaside!
The latest stripped-across-the-week thriller from Channel 5, Intruder , achieves one star, and also five stars. Read more...
South African variant can 'break through' Pfizer vaccine, new study in Israel finds
The researchers cautioned, though, that the study only had a small sample size of people infected with the South African variant because of its rarity in Israel. Read more...
How 'America First' could turn into to 'India First'
Nandan Nilekani, co-founder of one of India's biggest outsourcing companies, says an H-1B visa crackdown would ultimately hurt the U.S. Read more...
As Locusts Swarmed East Africa, This Tech Helped Squash Them
A hastily formed crowdsourcing operation to contain the insects in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia could help manage climate-related disasters everywhere. Read more...
Australian Open Mixed Doubles Winners Are Crowned
After a 14-day quarantine in their hotel rooms, Rajeev Ram and Barbora Krejcikova rolled through the draw and claimed victory at the Australian Open. Read more...
Rising Interest Rates Threaten Mutual Fund Returns
The low rates that propelled the stock markets boom are starting to rise, putting investors in a precarious position. Read more...
Mars alternated between dry and wetter periods before drying up completely
Data collected by the NASA Curiosity rover, which has been on Mars since 2012, was used by researchers from the Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology. Read more...
A Family Adds Five Children, Special Needs and All
In November, this family adopted five young children from foster care. Read more...
Making Music Visible Singing in Sign
A new project is producing sign language covers of 10 seminal musical works recorded by Black female artists. Read more...
PIERS MORGAN I won't do Strictly with Giovanni... that stick insect couldn't lift a lump like me
Just when I thought 2020 couldn't possibly get any worse, terrible news reaches me that I've been sent to permanent social Siberia by Kirstie Allsopp. Read more...
Spelling Bee
Use 7 letters to make as many words as you can. Read more...
With New Wrinkle, N.H.L. Division Races Heat Up
The exclusively intradivisional play means teams can climb the standings or fall faster than in the past. Read more...
Duncan Bannatyne predicts huge queues outside gyms tomorrow as Covid rules relaxed
Mr Bannatyne, who owns a chain of health clubs, spas and hotels, said 'There'll be a queue outside each health club on Monday morning waiting to get in. We experienced that last time.' Read more...
Lonely Planet travel guides accused of 'downplaying' the harassment women travellers suffer from men
A paper by Middlesex University states 'Lonely Planet often downplays harassment and the idea that it is not worth getting angry about presents itself again and again in the entries.' Read more...
Australian bride-to-be asks what the cut off age for kids invited to wedding should be
An Australian bride-to-be who's planning an 'adults only' wedding has sparked a debate on social media after asking what the cut off age for kids invited to the big day should be. Read more...