Here’s a quick summary of what has happened around the world over the last 24 hours, brought to you exclusively by British Herald.
From next April, retailers across England will charge for single-use plastic bags with the price doubling to 10 pence ($0.13), said the government.
The country recorded as many as 1,406 daily coronavirus infections, said the government. It is down from 1,715 a day earlier. The data said that two coronavirus patients died within 28 days of testing positive for the disease.
Finance Minister Rishi Sunak encouraged Britons to go out to eat as the government scheme offering discounts in restaurants came to a close.
According to fire officials in California in the US, they have made significant progress in fighting the two largest conflagrations among dozens of lightning-triggered blazes raging in and around the greater San Francisco area since mid-August.
As French authorities are struggling to fight the resurgence of the coronavirus in the country, Paris municipality announced that they would make free virus screening available in all 20 districts (arrondissements) of the capital.
High ranking US and Israeli officials landed in the United Arab Emirates as part of an epoch-making visit to finalise an agreement to normalise ties between the Emirates and Israel.
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