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Royal Caribbean cruise liners have sought legal action in Australia to stop victims of the horrific White Island volcano explosion from winning damages in the US. The company have been sued in Miami by Australian family Marie and Stephanie Browitt and American couple Ivy and Paul Reed for green-lighting their trip to the volcano despite eruption warnings. Royal Caribbean had 38 passengers from the Ovation of the Seas cruise ship on a tour of the volcano when it erupted on December 9, 2019.  Both parties are seeking damages from the Norwegian cruise company, accusing them of failing to keep their passengers safe. But in response, Royal Caribbean is seeking a ruling from the Australian federal court that would ban the cases from developing further in America. Royal Caribbean are seeking a ruling to ban White Island cases from developing in US. Pictured: the explosion on December 9, 2019 Royal Caribbean have been sued in Miami by Marie and Stephanie Browitt and Ivy and Paul Reed The co

A 19-year-old UPS worker has been arrested and charged with murder after an alleged deadly assault on a colleague, Connecticut state police said. Elijah David Bertrand had been the target of a police search since Tuesday night when a fellow UPS worker, Nathan Burk, 28, was found suffering from injuries. Burk was reportedly driving the UPS truck with Bertrand in the passenger seat as they made holiday deliveries in Waterfield, Litchfield County, police said.  Bertrand suddenly attacked Burk while he was driving which caused him to crash the truck, they said. The victim later died of his injuries at hospital.  Suspect: Elijah David Bertrand, 19, has been arrested and charged with murder after an alleged deadly assault on a co-worker, Connecticut state police said. A weapon was recovered at the scene, Connecticut State Police Trooper Joseu Dorelus said at a news conference. The motive is unknown.   'We do know that there was a weapon used during the course of the attack and we are ver

Britain needs to speed up its vaccination programme to a staggering two million jabs per week and have a Tier Four national lockdown throughout January if it wants to prevent the new fast-spreading strain of coronavirus from doubling the Covid-19 death toll by the end of June 2021, SAGE advisers have warned. In terrifying predictions published last night, researchers who advise the Government said they think the new variant, discovered in Kent and revealed by ministers last week, is 56 per cent more infectious than its predecessor and 83,000 more could die if people don't get vaccinated faster than they are now.  This could be could be slashed by 45,000 to just 35,700, however, if immunisation rockets to two million doses per week, which will be six times faster than the current rate of approximately 350,000 per week.  There is some confusion over how fast vaccines are being done in the UK - Boris Johnson today claimed 800,000 had been done already, while the Department of Health p

Business leaders today welcomed the 'crucially important' post-Brexit free trade deal between the UK and EU, saying households could breathe a 'collective sigh of relief'. The British Retail Consortium hailed the agreement after months of talks and frantic last-minute wrangling, saying that four-fifths of UK food imports come from the bloc. The Christmas Eve deal was dramatically secured by negotiators from the UK and EU this afternoon just one week before current trading arrangements expire. It follows a torrid year for businesses which have been hammered by the coronavirus pandemic and resultant lockdowns which have seen high street footfall plummet.  The pound was up 0.36 per cent against the dollar at $1.3555 following the deal being announced this afternoon. However it had earlier been higher at $1.3578, heading towards the two-and-a-half year peak of $1.3625 which was hit last week. The pound was up 0.36 per cent against the dollar at $1.3555 following the deal be

An intensive care nurse in Mexico City Thursday became the first person in Latin America to receive an approved coronavirus vaccine. Mexico began administering the first 3,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in a broadcast ceremony in which María Ramírez, 59, got the first shot. The vaccination was broadcast live during President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's daily press briefing and under the watchful eyes of military personnel who escorted the vaccine shipment to Dr. Eduardo Liceaga General Hospital.  'This is the best present I could have received in 2020,' Ramírez said. 'The truth is we are afraid, but we have to keep going because someone has to be in the front line of this battle.' Ramírez, a nurse at Rubén Leñero Hospital, volunteered to receive the shot, adding that 'we are afraid but we have to move on ... and I want to continue in the line of fire.' Health worker Maria Ramírez is the first person in Latin America to get vaccinated for COVID-19

Britain and the EU finally agreed the long-awaited - and long haggled-over - Brexit deal today.  But it is more the end of the beginning, with politicians, trade experts and industry leaders ready to pour over the pages of the agreement in the coming days. It's the document the world has been waiting for – and it's feared to be no fewer than 2,000 pages long - although Boris Johnson tonight suggested it would be no more than 500 pages of 'easily intelligible' material. Some feared it would never materialise. But the world could soon finally see the agreement – which will shape every aspect of Britain's future relationship with the EU. It was announced this afternoon after a last-minute delay caused, almost inevitably, by fish, the main stumbling block.  Analysis of the deal-in waiting by the UK Government suggests it 'won' in talks on 43 per cent of the 'key issues' in the talks. It labels a further 40 per cent at compromises for both sides, with ju