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A police academy in China is set to auction off dogs who dropped out of training due to 'cowardice', 'lack of athletic ability' or 'curly ears'. Fifty-four dogs, mostly German shepherds, are being offered at a starting price of about £22 by the academy in China's northeastern Liaoning province. Prospective owners can pick up their pooches as soon as their bid is accepted, after the auction starts on July 7, a statement on the academy's website read. All of the dogs being auctioned failed to qualify for training, due to undesirable physical or personality traits. The academy said most were disqualified for 'cowardice' while some others failed to bite when instructed, 'lacked athletic ability' or simply weren't up to scratch when it came to fetching. Some of the hounds, which also include Belgian Malinois and a few Dutch Shepherd hybrids, were dropped for being too small, having 'weak limbs' or even for their 'curly ears'

Britons could be wearing masks and social distancing for next five winters under a new plan for life after July 19. Health officials are said to have drafted a five-year plan with options for what freedom-limiting restrictions can be freely reimposed should cases spike again. Mandatory working from home, enforced mask wearing and limits on indoor gatherings could come back in the winter if the number of hospitalisations increases at a time when the NHS is already under pressure, reports suggest.  The move would risk a rebellion from backbench Tory MPs eager for life to return to normal. A Department of Health spokesperson told the paper: 'We do not recognise this story and do not know where it has come from.' It comes in spite of Britain's vaccination drive keeping hospital admissions low - with data showing jabs make Covid nothing more than a 'bad cold'. Boris Johnson today warned that there may be 'some extra precautions' still in place after England's

The number of venues exposed to Sydney's alarming Covid-19 outbreak surged on Friday night with major supermarkets, chain stores and shopping centres added to the list. Customers who visited a Woolworths at Eastgate Shopping Centre in the city's east, a Bunnings at Caringbah in the far south and Strathfield Plaza in the inner west have been told to get tested and self-isolate immediately as 34 new venues were added bringing the total number of exposure sites in Greater Sydney to 364. The next few days in New South Wales are 'critical' according to officials, as the state continues to record new Covid-19 cases who have been infectious in the community. NSW Health issued new close contact alerts for major supermarkets including Coles at Bondi Junction's Eastgate Shopping Centre, Woolworths at Matraville and Eastlakes and several other smaller outlets. Close contacts must get tested and self-isolate even if they get a negative test result NSW recorded 31 new locally ac

A young girl discovered keeping a lone vigil for her missing father and uncle amid the devastation of the condo collapse in Florida met Joe Biden – who told her: 'Try to be strong.' Elisheva Cohen, 12, was among relatives of those missing and dead in the disaster who were consoled by the President during his emotional day-long visit to the scene with the First Lady. The schoolgirl had been found by Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett sitting on a chair all alone reading psalms in a scene that he said 'broke my heart' four days after the Champlain Towers South condo catastrophe. Mayor Burkett told Dailymail.com: 'Today she met the President. He was talking about his family and the tragedy in his life. He specifically said to Elisheva, ''Try to be strong.''' Elisheva Cohen, 12, is missing her father and uncle who are lost in the rubble at the Champlain condo collapse site. Joe Biden consoled Elisheva during his emotional day-long visit to the scene '

Australia is slowly cutting itself off from the world after the government announced it will halve the number of people allowed to enter the country, as it struggles to contain the Indian coronavirus variant that has plunged millions into lockdown.  With 12 million Australians - nearly half the population - now under stay-at-home orders, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said quotas for overseas arrivals would be cut by around 50 per cent to help prevent further outbreaks.  It comes as the new lockdown rules were announced earlier this week as cases of the Indian variant have flared up across the country after escaping from quarantine hotels.        Under the current 'zero Covid' strategy, just 6,000 people are allowed to enter Australia on overseas commercial flights each week and arrivals must undergo two weeks of hotel quarantine. That quota will be cut to around 3,000 by the middle of July, Morrison indicated, although the government will at the same time step up its private re

A family of three were forced to wait nine hours with 'no food or water' before reaching their quarantine hotel after arriving from 'red list' country India. Savio D'Souza, 34, from Battersea, London, arrived from India to Heathrow Airport on June 27 with his wife and two-year-old daughter. He described the government's hotel quarantine system as 'utter chaos' after he waited hours to reach his hotel in Birmingham to begin his 10-day quarantine. Savio D'Souza, 34, from Battersea, London, arrived from India to Heathrow Airport on June 27 with his wife and two-year-old daughter and is now quarantining in a hotel in Birmingham Despite living in the capital, Savio,and his family were allocated a hotel in Birmingham to quarantine in, costing a total of £2,400 and located more than 120 miles from his home. It is not clear which hotel he is quarantining in. He said: 'The entire process (booking, registration and processing) is convoluted, undermanned an