One of New York's newest tourist attractions has been closed to the public, having been the scene of three suicides in a year.The Vessel in Hudson Yards, on the west side of Manhattan, opened in March 2019. But it shut following the most recent of the three deaths on Monday, when a 21-year-old man died,…

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The UK has recorded another 1,280 coronavirus-related deaths, bringing the total to 87,295, latest government figures show.As of 9am on Friday, there had also been a further 55,761 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK - bringing the total number to 3,316,019. Separate figures published by the UK's statistics agencies for deaths where COVID-19 has…

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A lockdown-flouting snowball fight that had to be broken up by police was "a welcome laugh that people needed", according to one of the students involved.Hundreds of young people broke England's COVID-19 lockdown rules to take part in the event in Leeds. The gathering in Hyde Park on Thursday afternoon was organised on Facebook, but…

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Bobi Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, has a large house about an hour outside Uganda's capital, Kampala.After sending out a couple of panicky-sounding tweets on Friday saying members of the military were encroaching on his property, that his property had been essentially surrounded by the military, we drove out there as quickly as…

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All travel corridors will close from Monday, forcing everyone arriving in the UK to self-isolate.The tighter border restrictions unveiled by Boris Johnson are aimed at protecting the progress made with the rollout of vaccines. They come as new coronavirus variants continue to be found around the world and amid what Mr Johnson described as "extraordinary"…

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Medics are calling for emergency legislation to protect them from "inappropriate" legal action over COVID-19 treatment decisions made under the pressure of the pandemic.A group of health organisations has written to the government urging it to update the law to ensure medical workers do not feel "vulnerable to the risk of prosecution for unlawful killing"…

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Prince William has said he is "very proud" of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh for getting their coronavirus vaccinations.During an online discussion with NHS staff and volunteers, the future king also said it was "really important" that "everyone" gets a jab "when they are told to". And he praised the "monumental" success of…

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Dog walkers are increasingly being targeted by violent criminals intent on stealing their high value pets to sell on for profit.Demand for dogs has soared during the pandemic and police saw thefts increase by two thirds in the first lockdown. But it is the increasingly violent nature of some of these crimes that is causing…

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America is finally waking up to the problems caused by its polarising politics.And if Sky News' investigations into one small community in mid-west Ohio are anything to go by, it is going to be one heckuva big, continual challenge - long after the US inauguration on Wednesday. The Sky team in Ohio tracked down several…

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Boris Johnson will host this year's G7 summit in the tiny seaside resort of Carbis Bay in Cornwall, where he will urge world leaders to unite in "building back better" from the pandemic.Joe Biden, who will be US president by then, is expected to attend the event starting on 11 June, alongside the other G7…

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