From June 15th face coverings will be compulsory, for anyone using public transport in England.

People without one won’t be allowed to travel and failing to wear one on a journey could lead to a fine. The government says people should start wearing them now, with the rules enforced from the middle of June

Dozens of other countries already have rules in place on the wearing of face masks and coverings in public places.

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The UK is changing its vaccination strategy, with a plan to prioritise giving millions of people a first dose of vaccine, in the latest effort to contain the pandemic.

It came as the daily death toll rose to more than 900 people with the number of new Covid cases at record levels.

The UK medicines regulator has approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine and the UK has already placed an order for 100 million doses.

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A tiny island you have probably never heard of now matters to the whole world.

Reports from Yemen say fighters from the Iran-backed Houthi movement have reached Perim Island on the Red Sea.

But what does that mean for the rest of the world? In this video…

00:34 Who are the Houthis?
02:07 Why is Perim Island so important?
03:00 What’s the impact of the Houthi advance?
05:26 Saudi reaction
07:12 What next – could it become a wider war?

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The oldest known sentence in the ancient language of Canaanites has been decoded by at team of Israeli archaeologists.

The inscription was discovered on an ivory head-lice comb, unearthed at Tel Lachish, an ancient city in the Biblical Kingdom of Judah.

Experts translated the comb to read: “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.”

The landmark discovery provides evidence for the use of the alphabet 3,700 years ago.

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