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Image copyright Getty Images UK house buyer interest has slumped as people stay at home to try to limit the spread of the coronavirus, according to property listings websites. Zoopla predicts housing transactions will drop by up to 60% over the next three months. Meanwhile, an increasing number of sales that had been agreed before […]

A woman has been charged with several felony and misdemeanor counts, including one for a terrorist threat, after potentially contaminating more than $35,000 worth of produce and other items by coughing on food in a “twisted prank” in northeastern Pennsylvania. On Wednesday, Gerrity’s Supermarket posted on Facebook about a woman who is a “chronic problem

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionChancellor Rishi Sunak announced the grant Self-employed workers can apply for a grant worth 80% of their average monthly profits to help them cope with the financial impact of coronavirus, the chancellor has announced. The money – up to a maximum of £2,500 a month – will

Image copyright Getty Images Employees kept on by struggling businesses during the coronavirus outbreak will have 80% of their wages subsidised by the government, but ministers were criticised for not going so far for the self-employed. Now Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced measures to support them too. What help is there? If they have suffered

“We don’t feel the conditions we have to work under are safe, we weren’t given any protection from the Post Office. No hand sanitiser, gloves, no aprons or anything, we had to source them ourselves.” Jay Patel, 37, and his wife Nilam run a branch post office in Bournemouth and as “essential retailers” are staying

Earlier this week, workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New York, were told an employee in the facility tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.  Then they went back to work. “After they told us, the building was just running as it has been,” said Terrell Worm, an Amazon

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWATCH: Chris Fox gets hands on with Huawei’s P40 Pro Huawei has launched a range of new flagship smartphones despite the coronavirus pandemic. The firm unveiled the P40 phones a day after the firm’s founder announced that 90% of the company’s 150,000 China-based employees had returned to

Image copyright Getty Images The number of people without jobs in the US has surged to a record high as the economy goes into lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. Nearly 3.3 million people registered to claim unemployment benefits for the week ended 21 March, according to Department of Labor data. The previous record was

Image caption The case against Seema Misra is one that has been sent to the Court of Appeal Dozens of former sub-postmasters and postmistresses will have convictions of fraud, theft and false accounting sent to the Court of Appeal. They had been accused of stealing money after the Post Office installed a new computer system,

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption“People in your profession write fake news – you do”, President Trump tells journalist The US Senate has passed a $2 trillion (£1.7tn) coronavirus aid bill that is the largest economic stimulus in US history. The vote was delayed by a last-minute row between Republican and Democratic