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An unvaccinated hospital worker who sparked a three-day lockdown in Queensland has the highly-contagious Delta variant of Covid-19 and her brother has also tested positive.  Millions of Queenslanders are in lockdown again amid fears the coronavirus ward receptionist at Brisbane's Prince Charles Hospital may have spread the virus to northern parts of the state.  The 19-year-old was not vaccinated but continued to work shifts as a concierge stationed just outside the coronavirus ward of Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane.  A close friend and another family member are also now ill and awaiting test results. The receptionist also had contact with three other hospital workers.   The young woman tested positive on Monday but is believed to have been infectious in the community for about 10 days, and in that time worked two shifts at the hospital and went on a family holiday to Townsville.  Late on Tuesday, authorities confirmed the hospital receptionist has the Delta variant, which is t

'Cult mom' Lori Vallow has been charged with conspiracy to commit murder in the death of her fourth husband. The indictment was handed down by a grand jury in Maricopa County, Arizona, on Tuesday - just over a month after Lori and her fifth husband Chad Daybell were charged with murder for the deaths of her two children and Chad's first wife.  Lori's fourth husband Charles was shot dead by her brother, Alex Cox, on July 11, 2019, during a custody dispute over their seven-year-old son Joshua 'JJ' Vallow in Chandler, Arizona.  Police initially ruled that Cox acted in self defense but the case was reopened when JJ and his sister Tylee Ryan, 16, were reported missing in Idaho in November 2019. Cox died a month later.    JJ and Tylee were found buried in the backyard of Chad's home in Salem, Idaho, in June 2020. Lori is facing two counts of murder and two counts of conspiracy to commit murder in their deaths. She also faces one count of conspiracy to commit murde

Victoria has recorded one new local case of coronavirus as the state barricades its border with NSW and anxiously waits to hear if more restrictions will be put in place. Health officials said on Wednesday morning that the infected person is the primary contact of another case. They have been in isolation throughout the infectious period.  The Victorian government classified Greater Sydney and Darwin as 'red' zones on Tuesday amid outbreaks of the highly-contagious Delta variant in each city. Victoria recorded one new case of Covid-19 on Wednesday morning. Pictured: A woman on Bourke Street in Melbourne CBD Sydney recorded 19 new cases, bringing the total number of infections up to 149, and Darwin had two new positive test results - bringing the total to 10.  People in red zones are barred from entering Victoria without an exemption, and residents can return if they get a permit and self-isolate for 14 days on arrival. The rest of NSW and ACT are 'orange zones', which m

A Florida building inspector who reassured residents of the collapsed tower in November 2018 that it was structurally sound has been placed on leave. Rosendo Prieto was named chief building official of Surfside in July 2013 - a position he held until late 2020. In October 2018 Frank Morabito, an engineer, warned of 'major structural damage' in the Champlain Towers South building. Morabito had been commissioned by the residents' association to look into the building, ahead of its 40-year structural review, due in 2021. A month later, Prieto told the residents that he had reviewed Morabito's report and found little of concern. 'It appears the building is in very good shape,' Prieto told them, according to the minutes of the meeting released by Surfside on Monday, and obtained by NBC News.   Surfside's chief building official in November 2018 told residents of the Champlain Towers South that there were no major structural concerns. He had received a report a mo

A Picasso painting stolen from Greece's National Gallery has been found hidden in a ravine nearly nine years after it vanished, officials announced on Tuesday.  The painting - which was personally donated by the Spanish master to the Greek people - was stolen alongside two other artworks in an audacious heist in 2012. Until now, the perpetrator had evaded officials, but a 49-year-old who is said to have lived between Greece and England has now been arrested and later confessed. Picasso's 'Head of a Woman' stolen from Greece's National Gallery in 2012 has been found hidden in a ravine nearly nine years after it vanished, officials announced on Tuesday The painting, called 'Head of a Woman' and gifted by Pablo Picasso to Greece in 1949, was recovered in Keratea, a rural area some 28 miles southeast of Athens, officials told a news conference. A video shared online by the Greek police showed where the man had hidden the paintings. They were found in a ravine,

Overseas business leaders will no longer need to quarantine when arriving in England if their trip is likely to be of significant economic benefit to the UK, the Government has announced. Company executives wishing to travel to England to make a 'financial investment in a UK-based business' or for 'establishing a new business within the UK' will be exempt but they will need written permission first. The Department for Business said: 'This exemption is designed to enable activity that creates and preserves UK jobs and investment, while taking steps to ensure public health risks are minimised.' But the Government added that business leaders will not qualify for an exemption if the activities can be carried out remotely via telephone or email, or by another person. 'Significant economic benefit' is considered to be having a greater than 50% chance of creating or preserving at least 500 UK-based jobs, or creating a new UK business within two years, the new g

President Joe Biden is getting local with the bipartisan infrastructure deal as he jets off to Wisconsin Tuesday morning after being forced to walk back on linking the bill to reconciliation with his massive 'human' infrastructure plan. Republicans and progressive Democrats took up issue with the plan – but for very different reasons – after the deal was reached Thursday by Biden and a group of 10 bipartisan lawmakers. Far left lawmakers claim that the $1.2 trillion deal doesn't go far enough and isn't inclusive of minority communities while Republicans were enraged with the president when he tied infrastructure to his American Families Plan. On Saturday, Biden walked back on the comments, claiming they were never meant as a veto threat to the deal he had just reached a few days prior.  Biden will tour La Crosse Municipal Transit Utility in Wisconsin on Tuesday and later deliver remarks promoting the bipartisan infrastructure framework. He is likely to try and reaffirm