<p>Ghislaine Maxwell’s husband ended their marriage ahead of her trial on sex trafficking charges, despite having allegedly offered to put millions in assets up for her bail, it’s been reported. It is widely believed that Scott Borgerson, 46, married Maxwell in secret in 2016 and remained with the socialite following her arrest in 2020. However, <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/ghislaine-maxwells-marriage-is-reportedly-over-following-dramatic-phone-call-behind-bars/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>Doctors have revealed the first diagnosis of what is being dubbed ‘Flurona’ in Israel. On Thursday, December 30, a woman tested positive for both coronavirus and influenza while at the Beilinson Hospital, located in the city of Petach Tikva. However, doctors suspect that further cases of ‘flurona‘ are likely present within the country. Director of <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/first-case-of-flurona-detected-in-israel/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>Absence rates are anticipated at reaching up to 25% as a result of a record number of daily cases of coronavirus from over the Christmas period. While no new restrictions were implemented ahead of January, the Cabinet Office has revealed leaders of public sectors have been warned to prepare for ‘worst-case scenarios’ for workplace absences <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/omicron-workplaces-warned-over-absences-of-up-to-25/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>A Dutch anti-lockdown protest turned violent over the weekend as police attempted to disperse crowds defying a ban on public gatherings. Video footage taken from the unauthorised protest in Amsterdam showed police hitting protesters with batons, with at least one man bitten by a police dog. The scuffles reportedly broke out after police intervened to <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/anti-lockdown-protesters-attacked-by-dogs-as-riot-police-intervene/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>The government is set to review the need for further Covid-19 restrictions later this week, as one of Boris Johnson’s Cabinet ministers claims there is ‘nothing in the data’ to support additional measures. Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi confirmed MPs would officially review the situation on Wednesday, four weeks after England was moved to ‘Plan B’ <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/omicron-government-to-review-covid-restrictions-this-week/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has predicted that the end of the Covid-19 pandemic is in sight. Director-general Tedros Ghebreyesus marked the turn of the new year with an end-of-year address in which he proclaimed he was ‘confident’ life would return more fully to normal within the next year. ‘While no country <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/who-boss-confident-the-pandemic-will-end-this-year/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>A secret deal that took place between Virginia Roberts Giuffre – who has accused Prince Andrew of sexual assault – and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is set to be released today. On August 14, Giuffre filed a lawsuit under the New York Child Victim’s Act claiming she had been made to meet with the <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/prince-andrew-accuser-virginia-giuffres-secret-deal-with-jeffrey-epstein-to-become-public-today/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>Bad news for those who you who thought it might be time to fire-up that 10-year-old Blackberry phone after all this time – they’ll stop working from January 4. Despite having a peak of more than 80 million Blackberry users worldwide in 2012, the company soon fell away in the mobile phone market and changed <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/technology/classic-blackberry-phones-to-stop-working-imminently/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>Marjorie Taylor Greene, the controversial right-wing politician and Republican congresswoman, was permanently banned from Twitter today, January 2. Greene, from Georgia, has had her accounts frozen in the past after she tweeted a number of falsehoods and misinformation regarding the Covid-19 vaccines and the pandemic. Now, the social media site has decided to ban her <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/marjorie-taylor-greene-permanently-banned-from-twitter/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>The Holiday is one of my favourite ever festive movies, and it just doesn’t feel like Christmas to me until Mr Napkinhead arrives. Every year without fail, I’ll find myself swooning anew at Amanda Woods’ (Cameron Diaz) Selling Sunset-worthy home, or getting cross at slimy Jasper Bloom (Rufus Sewell) for messing lovely Iris Simpkins (Kate <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/film-and-tv/why-id-love-to-see-a-prequel-to-the-holiday-focused-on-arthur-abbott/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>Prince Andrew may be asked to give up his title if he loses a lawsuit filed against him by a victim of convicted sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein, according to reports. Following the conviction of Epstein’s former girlfriend and socialite Ghislaine Maxwell for sex trafficking, the prince has come under renewed scrutiny for his relationship both <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/prince-andrew-could-lose-royal-titles-if-he-loses-sex-abuse-case/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>Comedians could soon be prescribed by the NHS in an attempt to prove that laughter really is the best medicine. Angie Belcher, comedian in residence at Bristol University, has been working with medics to develop sessions for people suffering from depression that are designed to make them laugh. Belcher says the courses could help people <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/health/comedians-could-soon-be-prescribed-to-combat-depression/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>The BBC cut several jokes from the Christmas family favourite Nativity!, despite the film carrying a U rating that means its content should be suitable for people aged four and above. As well as airing on the BBC’s broadcast channels several times over the past few weeks, the Martin Freeman-starring 2009 film was also available <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/film-and-tv/nativity-scenes-cut-from-bbc-iplayer-over-fears-of-causing-offence/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>After filming wrapped in June last year, we finally have the first trailer for the sixth and final season of Peaky Blinders. Season five finished more than two years ago, and saw Cillian Murphy’s protagonist, Tommy Shelby, facing off with Sam Claflin’s Oswald Mosley against the backdrop of the rise of fascism after the First <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/film-and-tv/peaky-blinders-final-season-trailer-is-here/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>Starting the new year with a bang and fresh calls for cancellation, Mrs Brown’s Boy has upset fans again. The New Year’s Day special of the BBC sitcom has apparently ‘ruined’ the holiday for some viewers. Mrs Brown’s Boys stars Irish actor Brendan O’Carroll, known as ‘Mammy’, and centres on the Brown family. While the <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/film-and-tv/mrs-browns-boys-ruins-new-years-day-again-tv-fans-fume/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>The Taliban has ordered a series of mannequin beheadings, according to reports, claiming they group think they are ‘idols’ forbidden by Islam. This week, shopkeepers in Herat, Afghanistan, have reportedly been told to remove the heads of female mannequins. The Taliban are said to believe the mannequins were being worshiped as idols, and the Quran <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/the-taliban-ordered-shop-mannequin-beheadings-reports-say/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>Season three of The Umbrella Academy is on its way, and the superhero TV show’s social media accounts have recently provided a closer look at the new students who’ll be joining the mysterious Sparrow Academy. It’s been well over a year now since we last spent time at the Academy and its mysterious alternate-timeline Sparrow <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/film-and-tv/the-umbrella-academy-teases-first-look-at-season-3/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>Convicted serial killer Stephen Port has said he’d like to be portrayed by a Hollywood star in a film about himself. Port, known as the Grindr Killer, drugged, raped and killed four men he met on the gay dating app during a 16-month killing spree that started in June 2014. The news comes as the <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/film-and-tv/grindr-killer-wants-eddie-redmayne-to-play-him-in-a-film/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>The Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings for parts of the UK today, January 2, as storms are expected to hit the country. The storms are due to hit the south of England, with the potential to bring road closures, power cuts and damage to trees and buildings. A large band of stormy weather <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/met-office-issues-yellow-weather-warning-as-thunderstorms-expected-to-hit-england-today/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>Desmond Tutu was laid to rest on New Year’s Day in his homeland of South Africa, with the 90-year-old buried in the cheapest available coffin as per his own request. Tutu died last Sunday, December 26, at age 90 and was given a state funeral at St. George’s Cathedral in Cape Town yesterday, January 1. <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/desmond-tutu-laid-to-rest-in-cheapest-coffin-available-to-honour-final-wish/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>Following the announcement that former prime minister Tony Blair had been appointed a knighthood, a petition has been launched to reverse the decision. The petition, started just yesterday, on January 1, has already surpassed 150,000 signatures. Angus Scott launched the campaign, with the aim of having the honour of Knight Companion of the Most Noble <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/life/petition-to-strip-tony-blair-of-his-knighthood-reaches-more-than-150000-signatures/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>Ministers have told schools in England that pupils should return to wearing masks when in class, with fears that the new term will bring another spike in Omicron cases when it begins this week. Secondary school children in England will be expected to return to mask-wearing during lessons, with the Department for Education saying the advice <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/news/omicron-pupils-told-to-wear-face-masks-at-school-over-variant-spread-fears/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>
<p>It seems so obvious that most of us have probably never given it a second thought. But in the early days of television, calling audiences ‘viewers’ wasn’t as simple as it might have seemed. In fact, the debate over what words should be used when talking about television was so complicated that it caused a <a href="https://www.unilad.co.uk/film-and-tv/how-the-world-came-to-call-television-audiences-viewers/" title="Read more" >…</a></p>