December 19, 2020 3:53 PM Gondola moviegoers may sit two to a boat, with up to 10 guests per screening and boats kept metres apart.

"I would like to apologise sincerely for the bank's failings," Peter King, Westpac's chief executive, said in announcing the fine, the largest civil penalty in Australian history. The fine, agreed between Westpac and AUSTRAC, Australia's financial intelligence watchdog, must be approved by a federal court.

The former head of NBN Co has criticised the recently announced plan to give 6 million houses access to ultra-fast internet, saying it would have cost less for both the Government and customers if it had been done in the first place. Key points: Founding CEO Mike Quigley says the decision to use....

Sen. Chuck Grassley is urging the U.S. Treasury to be more aggressive in pushing coronavirus relief funds into the economy to offset the impact of pandemic. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said this week that the $454 billion federal lending programs enacted in March to protect the economy were working as intended.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Some Pennsylvania school districts are letting more fans in the stands after a federal judge’s ruling that tossed statewide pandemic limits on crowd size, although legislative Republicans on Wednesday lost an effort to enshrine local control of school sports into law.

In a rare primetime address, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned Canadians that the country is on the brink of a fall "that could be much worse than the spring." "The second wave isn't just starting, it's already underway," said Trudeau, noting that when Canada first entered a lockdown mid-March, it did so after 47 cases had been identified.

Boris Johnson’s Government has over-promised and under-delivered as it proved incapable of combating Covid-19, a former head of the civil service is set to say. In a withering assessment of the Government’s actions, Lord O’Donnell who served as cabinet secretary to Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David....

Users can download the NHS Covid-19 app from Apple’s App Store on iOS or Google’s Play Store for Android devices. Search ‘NHS Covid-19’. 2. Set-up. Users will be met with details about what the app does and a privacy notice first. The app will then ask for permission to use Bluetooth to carry out....

Asda. The supermarket chain said they currently have good availability in their stores and online slots. On Wednesday (September 23), Asda also announced a number of additional safety measures across its stores to provide an enhanced level of protection for customers and staff.

A coronavirus contact tracing app has launched across England and Wales following months of delay and questions about its effectiveness. The latest version of the app has been in testing among residents on the Isle of Wight and in the London borough of Newham since mid-August, after the first was marred by technical issues and eventually scrapped.

Spending just 6 million a year tackling invasive plants and animals in the UK would save 2.7 billion for the economy over 20 years, conservationists said. Wildlife and Countryside Link, a coalition of environmental groups, is urging the Government to increase its spend on tackling invasive species....

Requiring hauliers to obtain special permits to enter Kent from neighbouring counties will be “pointless”, an industry body has claimed. Road Haulage Association (RHA) policy director Duncan Buchanan said the measure aimed at avoiding post-Brexit gridlock is simply a “tick box exercise”.

© Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo. Five hundred students who were forced to isolate after a suspected coronavirus outbreak in the halls, send messages to the outside world through their windows. The students of Abertay University in Dundee living in the Parker House were asked to isolate as....

Kwara State Governor, Abdulrazaq. Kwara Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Wednesday toured the Ilorin metropolis where last weekend’s rainstorm blew off the rooftops of hundreds of residential and commercial buildings and rendered thousands homeless. The tour coincided with delivery of food....

We are living in unprecedented times. The problems we face now are ones which demand very different, and potentially more far reaching, solutions than anything the country has experienced since the end of the second world war. But that moment is the one from which, I believe, we should be taking our inspiration.