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One year after U.S. forces assassinated Iranian revered general Qasem Soleimani, a senior official warned Wednesday that the 'threat' coming from Iran is the 'most concerning' yet. 'I would tell you that the threat streams are very real,' the senior official told The Washington Post, warning there is concern of a 'complex attack'. The official also characterized the situation as the 'most concerning that I have seen' since Soleimani's killing on January 3, 2020. Specifically, U.S. officials are bracing for an attack from Iran on U.S. forces and troops in Iraq as tensions between Iraq's Washington-backed premier and pro-Tehran forces appeared to have reached a boiling point. These pro-Iranian forces accuse Iraq's Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi of complicity in the Baghdad drone strike. The Middle Eastern leader has urged calm but warned: 'We are ready for a decisive confrontation if necessary'. President Donald Trump sent sh

Essex has today declared a 'major incident' as the number of coronavirus cases threatens to overwhelm its hospitals and ambulances queued outside A&Es all over the country due to a lack of beds and staff, MailOnline can reveal today.  UK hospitals are running low on workers, ward space, oxygen and even pillows with patients being treated by medics inside emergency vehicles as they waited up to six hours to be admitted. In some cases people were later diverted more than 100 miles away while some packed London ICUs have started asking major hospitals in Yorkshire if they will take some of their Covid patients. On the day Britain's Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine was approved for use, Essex declared a 'major incident' at its six hospitals, allowing then to move patients elsewhere, speed up discharging, call in extra staff as well as cancel non-emergency care and operations. The Department for Health and Social Care is also expected to set out later today what help the G

A California nurse has tested positive for COVID-19 eight days after receiving the vaccination.  ER nurse Matthew W., received the Pfizer vaccine on December 18, according to a post from Instagram.  'Got my Covid vaccine! The 15 minutes afterward sitting around with a bunch of others while health care workers asked us how we felt made me think of an opium den. I’ll report back if I start to grow a third arm,' Matthew wrote.  But on Christmas Eve, Matthew, who works at two different hospitals in San Diego, began feeling sick after working a shift in the COVID-19 unit.  Regulators of the Pfizer vaccine have found that the best immunity against coronavirus comes seven days after the second dose, which is given three weeks after the first, meaning there is a possibility that someone who had received the vaccine could still contract the virus within that time frame.  All patients need two doses of the vaccine to achieve immunity.  ER nurse Matthew W , received the Pfizer vaccine on

Michael Sheen has revealed that he handed back his OBE eight years after receiving it from the Queen because he now believes Prince William should not be the next Prince of Wales and wants independence for his home country. The actor said he made the controversial move to avoid looking a hypocrite before giving a lecture on the history of his native Wales – including 'past wrongs' committed by England 'to fracture us, to control us, to subdue us'. And he called for the tradition of giving the heir to the throne the title of Prince of Wales to be scrapped when Charles becomes king, saying it was a 'humiliation' for the Welsh. The 51-year-old, whose acclaimed roles have included Tony Blair, football boss Brian Clough and broadcaster David Frost, received the honour from the Queen at Buckingham Palace in 2009.   But he handed it back after researching Welsh history while preparing to give the lecture to students in 2017, where he claimed that Wales should become in

East End crook Frederick Colverson was jailed for 25 years after he was snared in Suffolk's biggest ever drugs haul A drugs lord who masterminded a bid to swamp the UK with £34million of cocaine hidden in pineapples has died in jail. Frederick Colverson, 65, was serving a 25-year sentence when he passed away in hospital after testing positive for Covid-19. He had been suffering from breathing difficulties linked to health issues when he died on December 21. A Prison Service spokesperson said: 'HMP Coldingley prisoner Frederick Colverson died in hospital on 21 December. 'The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman has been informed.' Colverson had been caged at Cat C HMP Coldingley in Bisley, Surrey, where he developed breathing difficulties. He was transferred to Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey, a number of months ago. The drug dealer tested positive for coronavirus in hospital. Colverson had been caged at Cat C HMP Coldingley in Bisley, Surrey, where he developed breathing diffi

The World Health Organization has warned that the coronavirus pandemic is 'not necessarily the big one' and that a more deadly virus could yet sweep the globe. Dr Mike Ryan, head of the WHO emergencies programme, said on Tuesday that the pandemic was a 'wake-up call'. 'This pandemic has been very severe… it has affected every corner of this planet. But this is not necessarily the big one,' he told a media briefing. The coronavirus has so far killed 1,799, 337 people world wide and the most recent SAGE estimates put its infection fatality rate at 0.5%, meaning it kills one of every 200 people infected.   Spanish Flu was the last major global pandemic and killed in excess of 50million people between 1918 and 1919. It was much more deadly to younger people and there was a high mortality rate among those aged 20-40 years old.  It's Infection fatality rate was 2.5%, and it is feared that a similarly deadly global pandemic today would shut down global civilisation