The government should be pursuing a green trade policy in the wake of COVID-19 and Brexit, if it is serious about tackling climate change, according to the National Farmers’ Union.
Katie Hopkins has been permanently suspended by Twitter for breaching its rules on “abuse and hateful conduct”.
Australia is currently the target of a “sophisticated” cyber attack – and an unnamed foreign government is behind it.
The government is abandoning efforts to develop its own coronavirus contact-tracing app in order to focus on technology from Apple and Google.
At least a quarter of people who test positive for COVID-19 in the UK are being missed by contact tracers following up who they could have transmitted the virus on to.
The US has unveiled new proposals to reform how social media companies are regulated following President Trump’s complaints about an “anti-conservative bias” in what they moderate.
Twitter is introducing a new voice tweet feature, allowing users to share 140 seconds of audio with each other.
The NHS contact-tracing app will not be ready before winter, a health minister has said, despite initially being promised in mid-May.
The discovery of the common steroid dexamethasone as a treatment for coronavirus has been hailed as a “major breakthrough”.
Under-20s are half as likely to catch COVID-19 as over-20s, making school closures less effective at stopping the spread of the virus, a new scientific study has found.