Woman killed in jet-ski crash and child found 300m from shore as Coastguard calls hit record levels

3 minutes ago | Daily Mail | 2 articles

A woman has died in a jet ski crash in North Wales, while a young child had to be rescued after drifting 300metres away from shore in Southend and taken off by air ambulance .
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Duchess of Cambridge floral mask prompts face covering to sell out

3 minutes ago | The Guardian

Kate's first official outing in Amaia mask leads to spike in ‘ditsy print' search Coronavirus - latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage It is a truth universally...
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Options considered to restrict non-essential travel to Ireland

5 minutes ago | Belfast telegraph

Proposals on how to restrict non-essential travel from countries outside the UK and European Union are being prepared for the Irish Government, the Health Minister has said.
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Coronavirus: Everything you need to know about face masks

5 minutes ago | Belfast telegraph

With face masks set to become mandatory in shops and other enclosed public spaces in Northern Ireland on Monday we give the rundown on everything you need to know.
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My dear Beirut, I am far away but I am feeling your pain

7 minutes ago | The Independent

Faced with this chaos, I recall a line from the Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran: 'One can only reach dawn by taking the path of night'
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Now more than ever, a tale of 2 Hamptons

9 minutes ago | Business Insider

As the coronavirus hit New York City in March, wealthy city-dwellers fled to the Hamptons. Luxury businesses followed them out to the East End - as did a wave of social...
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How Monday Swimwear's cofounders turned a $30,000 loan into a multimillion-dollar brand in less than a decade

9 minutes ago | Business Insider

Natasha Oakley and Devin Brugman cofounded Monday Swimwear in 2014 with a $30,000 loan. Now, the company is on track to do $20 million in annual revenue before 2022. With no...
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Bill Gates says most COVID-19 tests in the US are 'completely garbage' because it takes too long to get results

9 minutes ago | Business Insider

Bill Gates says there's one massive problem with COVID-19 tests in the US: results take too long to come back. He said in a recent interview with WIRED that the majority of US...
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This engineer explains how throwing himself head-first into Amazon Web Services certifications landed him a new cloud gig with a 40% higher salary - and why he recommends it for anyone trying to get leg-up in the IT industry

9 minutes ago | Business Insider

Satya Kolachina quit his job in enterprise architecture and spent three years throwing himself into six AWS certifications. Now he's a cloud architecture with a 40% higher...
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Georgia high school reports nine COVID-19 cases days after photos of packed hallways go viral

15 minutes ago | Daily Mail

North Paulding High School in Georgia confirmed nine new coronavirus cases among staff and students Saturday after viral pictures and videos of crowded hallways.
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Coronavirus POLL: Should Brits be forced to have jab once developed? VOTE

WORK is underway on producing a vaccine for the deadly coronavirus. But, a recent poll suggests that only half of Britons are "very likely" to get the jab, if it becomes... Read more ...

Police stop 30,000 passengers in two weeks for flouting face mask rules on...

Figures from the British Transport Police show just a fifth of the 28,964 people who have been spoken to by its officers in mid-July were told to leave the transport network... Read more ...

Pulling pranks, bidding for Yahoo, and launching a $1 billion basketball...

Rocket Companies, which owns Quicken Loans, went public on Thursday, boosting founder and chairman Dan Gilbert's fortune to about $34 billion. Gilbert is close friends with... Read more ...

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Victoria records 394 new coronavirus cases and a record 17 deaths

Victoria has recorded 394 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday as the number of daily infections in the state continues to fall - but confirmed a record 17 deaths from the... Read more ...

Belfast police ATTACKED by gang of youths throwing petrol bombs - 26...

DOZENS of police officers have been injured after a group of youths hurled petrol bombs at them as they attempted to remove a bonfire structure from a Belfast street. Read more ...

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Ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio loses Arizona GOP primary race after being pardoned by...

Self-titled 'toughest sheriff' Arpaio, 88, lost out by around 6,000 votes to his former deputy Jerry Sheridan in the GOP primary for Maricopa County. Read more ...