Italy is moving towards 90,000 deaths from COVID-19 after adding nearly 500 in the past 24 hours

The child was crossing North Street, the main shopping street in Wareham, with his family when he was hit at 8.43am on Thursday, Dorset Police said. Detectives said a white Sainsbury’s articulated lorry hit the boy. He was taken to Dorset County Hospital but died shortly after. Boy, 3, dies after being hit by Sainsbury’s…

Image copyrightReutersImage caption Joanna Demafelis, a migrant from the Philippines working as a maid in Kuwait, was killed by her employers A Kuwaiti court has sentenced a married couple to death for the killing of a Filipina maid. A Lebanese man and his Syrian wife were convicted in absentia. The body of Joanna Demafelis was…

Image caption Environment Secretary Michael Gove wants to end direct payments based on the amount of land farmed Up to £150m in support payments could be shifted from the richest farmers to environmental schemes after Brexit, under government plans. Environment Secretary Michael Gove wants to end direct payments based on the amount of land farmed….

The German authorities were forced to disband a special police unit (SEK) operating in Frankfurt after it became known that several agents of the same were participating in right-wing extremist chats. “Today we are starting a fundamental new start for the SEK,” said the Hessian State Minister of the Interior, Peter Beuth. Beuth described the…