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The Prince of Wales has opened up about missing his family during the coronavirus lockdown, telling Sky News: "You really just want to give people a hug".

Wearing a face covering on public transport in England will be compulsory from 15 June, the transport secretary has announced.

German public prosecutors have said they believe Madeleine McCann is dead and police are treating her disappearance as a murder investigation.

The new suspect in the Madeleine McCann investigation allegedly confessed his part in her disappearance to a man in a bar.

In Manaus, the largest city in the Amazon rainforest, people are dying in their beds. 

British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca says it now has capacity to deliver two billion doses of its potential coronavirus vaccine over the next two years.

Business Secretary Alok Sharma has tested negative for coronavirus after appearing visibly unwell in parliament.

Airlines, transport and travel companies and car manufacturers are among the largest recipients of emergency funding under a Bank of England scheme that reveals the scale of the financial damage caused by coronavirus in the UK.

Nearly two million people have signed petitions calling for action over the death of a pregnant elephant who reportedly ate a pineapple filled with firecrackers in India.

Police have fired pepper spray at Hong Kong protesters who were defying a ban to stage candlelit rallies in memory of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy crackdown.