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The antidote: your favourite weekend reads beyond coronavirus

A real-life Lord of the Flies, that Zidane headbutt, Labour’s firebrand lost leader, the report on George Pell, the death of Ahmaud Arbery and more: the non-coronavirus articles that readers spent the most time with over the weekend

Chris Moran

11, May, 2020 @6:42 AM

Shock in India at hospital footage of bodies lying next to Covid-19 patients

Dean of Mumbai’s Sion hospital demoted after video emerges of bodies wrapped in plastic lying next to patients

Amrit Dhillon in Delhi

11, May, 2020 @6:34 AM

Scott Morrison 'disappointed' if China tariff plan is linked to coronavirus investigation

PM says he does not believe draft decision on barley is retribution for Australia calling for Covid-19 inquiry

Daniel Hurst

11, May, 2020 @6:03 AM

Coronavirus 11 May: at a glance

A summary of the biggest developments in the global coronavirus outbreak

Helen Davidson

11, May, 2020 @5:27 AM

Monday briefing: Johnson points to exit, but criticism mounts

PM promises to give more details of plan to MPs today … new infections in China as scientists worry about mutations … Tony Slattery’s remarkable year

Martin Farrer

11, May, 2020 @5:26 AM

Ardern thanks 'team of 5 million' as New Zealand reopens schools and offices

Regional travel will be allowed under level 2 restrictions but the nation’s borders will remain closed for a ‘long time’, PM warns

Eleanor Ainge Roy in Dunedin

11, May, 2020 @5:19 AM

Healthcare firm advised by Owen Paterson won £133m coronavirus testing contract unopposed

Randox Laboratories hired as part of Matt Hancock’s promise to carry out 100,000 tests a day

Rupert Neate, Juliette Garside, Felicity Lawrence and Rob Evans

11, May, 2020 @5:00 AM

Covid-19 crisis stokes European tensions over migrant labour

Farmers risk losing harvests but populists are seeking to cash in on fears of foreigners taking jobs

Rory Carroll in Dublin, Sam Jones in Madrid, Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo, Kate Connolly in Berlin and Kit Gillet in Bucharest

11, May, 2020 @4:00 AM

Athens hotel ordered to demolish top floors blocking Acropolis view

Campaigners ‘overjoyed’ at landmark ruling but say review of planning laws still needed

Helena Smith in Athens

11, May, 2020 @4:00 AM

Global report: Covid-19 lockdown rules relax in European nations amid confusion in UK

Boris Johnson criticised for vague blueprint; China reports more infections in Wuhan; Belgium and Greece also ease some measures

Staff and agencies

11, May, 2020 @3:50 AM

'Now it starts again': new coronavirus outbreaks spark unease in China

Cases rise in Shulan, near the Russian border, and in Wuhan, where stringent lockdown measures had been eased in recent weeks

Helen Davidson

11, May, 2020 @3:44 AM

Return anxiety: 'Coronavirus has caused a mass emotional event in our lives' | Celina Ribeiro

As restrictions ease and children start going back to school, we are also faced with a new level of anxiety about returning to the world we used to know

Celina Ribeiro

11, May, 2020 @3:35 AM

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