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A British Haiti charity record, masterminded by the X Factor impresario Simon Cowell – a cover of the REM classic Everybody Hurts, featuring 21 artists including Take That and Robbie Williams – was first heard on the airwaves today and will go on sale as a download later this week. … [Read more...] about We Are the World single re-recorded to help Haiti quake victims

The ratings agency Fitch has cut Britain’s sovereign debt rating to AA, saying debt levels will jump as the government ramps up its spending to offset the near shutdown of the economy in the face of coronavirus. … [Read more...] about Coronavirus latest: 28 March, at a glance

Police arrived in 10 patrol vehicles and started firing rubber bullets towards the people. Startled shoppers trampled on each other and a woman with a baby on her back fell to the ground. Later the police used whips to get the shoppers to observe social distancing rules. … [Read more...] about South African police fire rubber bullets at shoppers during Covid-19 lockdown

Hundreds of colleagues who worked with the first infected man, a researcher at Unilever, were being tested but it was still unclear whom he had contracted the illness from. The man, who was in intensive care, was initially thought to have caught the virus after meeting a colleague who had recently returned from China, but the colleague tested negative. … [Read more...] about Italy imposes draconian rules to stop spread of coronavirus

Researchers were aware that early flesh-eating dinosaurs had feathers, but the finding of the metre-long herbivore on a Siberian river bank has led experts to conclude that all dinosaurs from the Triassic period – more than 200m years ago – were feathered. … [Read more...] about Siberian fossil discovery builds case for an age of feathered dinosaurs