Prince Charles has urged the public to join a national effort to help farmers bring in the harvest, comparing the need to pick fruit and vegetables with World War II era programmes that fed the nation.
The heir to Britain's throne offered his support to a government's initiative to bring UK workers and farmers together to ensure crops are not left to rot in the fields.
Travel restrictions due to the COVID-19 crisis have impeded the travel of seasonal workers who have done the hard work in the past.
The prince, who runs an organic farm, said in a video that "if the last few weeks have proved anything, it is that food is precious and valued, and it cannot be taken for granted".
He said food does not happen by magic and made no effort to gloss over the effort that would be required.
"It will be hard graft but is hugely important if we are to avoid the growing crops going to waste," he said.

UK: Prince Charles urges national harvest effort

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Thailand's Cabinet has approved reducing the government's stake in financially troubled Thai Airways International to under 50 per cent as part of a reorganisation plan to be submitted to bankruptcy court.
The airline will lose its status as a state enterprise with the reduction in the 51 per cent share held by the Finance Ministry.
Thai Airways is carrying an estimated debt burden of almost 300 billion baht (USD 9.4 billion). It ran up losses of 12 billion baht (USD 374.3 million) in 2019, 11.6 billion baht in 2018 and 2.11 billion baht in 2017.
The Transport Ministry will submit a list of prospective business rehabilitation planners for Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha to choose from, Saksayam announced at a press conference after the weekly Cabinet meeting. The planner will be responsible for drafting a plan to be submitted to the Central Bankruptcy Court within a year.
The plan will also be submitted to US courts, Saksayam said, a standard practice for big multinational ...

Govt to lose majority Thai Airways share in restructuring

Manchester United have warned fans to stay away from matches played behind closed doors at Old Trafford if the Premier League restarts amid the coronavirus crisis.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side are set to resume small group training on Wednesday as Premier League clubs step up the "Project Restart" plan to finish the season.
But all 92 remaining matches will have to be played in front of empty stands due to the pandemic, leading United to activate a refund or rebate to ticket holders for their remaining home fixtures.
If the Premier League get their wish to play at clubs' normal stadiums rather than at neutral venues, then United will have four home league matches to play.
Aware of the danger of supporters gathering in large groups during the health crisis, United have pleaded with their fans to stay away from matches and watch on television.
"We share your disappointment that you will not be able to watch United in person from within the stadium, but we would encourage you to give your 

Man Utd urge fans to stay away if matches resume

Watford captain Troy Deeney will not return to training this week over fears he could pass coronavirus on to his five-month-old son.
Deeney has consistently voiced his concerns over the speed with which the Premier League hopes to return to playing matches despite the United Kingdom having the second-highest death toll in the world.
England's top-flight clubs are due to return to training in small, socially distanced groups on Tuesday.
Training will then be stepped up to full contact with the aim of resuming the season by the middle of next month.
"We're due back in this week. I've said I'm not going in. It's nothing to do with financial gain," Deeney said on the Talk The Talk podcast.
"My son is five months and he's had breathing difficulties. I don't want to come home and put him in more danger." All players and staff will be regularly tested, but Deeney highlighted the contradiction of contact sport returning at a time when the public are told to continue following social ...

Watford captain Deeney refuses return to training

Hollywood star Drew Barrymore has collaborated with the company McCormick Spices to donate USD 1 million to the non-profit charity No Kid Hungry amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The contribution will help provide necessary funds towards COVID-19 relief efforts for those who are facing shortage of food.
"I'm so excited to be partnering with @mccormickspice to donate $1,000,000 to @nokidhungry to support the amazing work they're doing during this time to help those impacted by food insecurity.
"I am so honoured to be part of this moment! This is one of the most meaningful things I have ever been lucky enough to be a part of. Thank you @mccormickspice for including me in this abundant generosity," Barrymore said in an Instagram video on Monday.
The 45-year-old actor also said that she will join McCormick for a live Instagram event, 'Taco Tuesday' and urged her fans to tune in and cook along with her.

Drew Barrymore to donate USD 1 mn for coronavirus relief efforts

Restaurant owners gave President Donald Trump a sobering accounting of the widespread damage the coronavirus pandemic has dealt their industry and asked him to adjust a loan program for small businesses to address their concerns.
The president put a hopeful spin on the situation, saying encouraging news on vaccines and treatment efforts could negate the bad news.
The president was in good spirits as he met Monday with the restaurant executives at the White House, noting that financial markets were up as states continued to loosen economic restrictions on businesses and following Moderna Inc.'s announcement of encouraging news in early work on vaccine development.
This was a very big day, therapeutically, cure-wise and vaccine-wise, Trump said.
Tremendous progress has been made, as I've been saying for two weeks, because I've been seeing what's going on and have been spearheading it largely."
It almost feels like today is the first day," Trump said at another point in the meeting.
Last 

Trump points to good news as restaurant owners tell of fears

People taken ill by coronavirus infection may experience psychiatric problems such as delirium and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) while hospitalised and potentially even after they recover, according to a study.
The research, published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal, compiled results from short- and long-term studies of people hospitalised by coronaviruses that cause COVID-19, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).
The researchers from the University College London (UCL) in the UK found that one in four people hospitalised with COVID-19 may experience delirium during their illness, a known problem among hospital patients, which can increase risk of death or extend time in hospital.
The post-recovery effects of COVID-19 are not yet known, so long-term risks such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), chronic fatigue, depression, and anxiety are based on SARS and MERS studies, which may or may not apply to COVID-19 as ...

Coronavirus infection may lead to mental problems: Study

A spokeswoman for the World Health Organisation said the UN health agency doesn't have an immediate reaction to a letter from US President Donald Trump that listed his complaints against it, including that it had shown "an alarming lack of independence" from China in its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib noted that she had seen the letter.
"I don't have any reaction, we have been busy trying to finalize our agenda for the World Health Assembly," she said, referring to health agency's annual meeting, which has been shortened this year because of the COVID-19 outbreak and was set to end later Tuesday.
"I am sure in the course of the day we will have more clarity and reaction to this letter," she told reporters at a regular UN briefing in Geneva.
Trump posted a letter to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, dated Monday, on his Twitter page overnight.
Among other things, Trump pointed to his decision to suspend US contributions to the WHO ...

No immediate reaction to Trump's letter: WHO spokesperson

Manchester United says it will refund fans with season tickets for the games they won't be able to attend during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Premier League season was suspended in March with United fifth in the standings. United has four home games left.
The club wrote to season ticket holders to say we share your disappointment that you will not be able to watch United in person from within the stadium, but we would encourage you to give your continued loyal support from the comfort and safety of your home.
Clubs are pushing to be allowed to play at their usual stadiums rather than in neutral venues as the police wanted.
United is asking fans for their "co-operation not to travel to any stadiums at which we are playing on matchdays.

Man United to refund season ticket holders

China on Tuesday accused President Donald Trump of using it "as an issue" to shift the blame from his incompetent response to contain the coronavirus at home, hours after he threatened to pull the US out of the UN health body if it failed to demonstrate "independence" from China.
"The US tries to use China as an issue to shift responsibility and bargain on its international obligations to WHO", which is a miscalculation, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a media briefing here.
He was responding to questions on Trump's letter to World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus threatening to "permanently freeze" the US funding to the UN health agency if it failed to demonstrate its "independence" from China in the next 30 days.
"The US leadership's open letter is full of vague expressions such as probably etc," Zhao said.
"It tries to mislead the public to smear China and shift the blame from its own incompetent response" to stop the spread of the virus in ..

China says Trump trying to shift blame from his 'incompetent response' to contain COVID-19

Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and Inter Milan will play a series of friendlies next year to raise money for medical facilities in Italy and Spain.
The three round-robin games have been dubbed the European Solidarity Cup and thousands of medical staff and carers will get tickets for their work fighting the coronavirus pandemic.
Dates for the games will be set when the calendar for 2021 is clear and fans are allowed back into stadiums.

Madrid, Bayern, Inter to play for charity

Actor Zachary Levi has revealed that the sequel to his 2019 DC superhero film Shazam! is on track.
The 39-year-old actor, who plays the titular role in the Warner Bros. project, said the film is currently in the scripting stage.
It's still on track. Right now, they're writing an amazing script. I don't have any real details on that. I've got some generals and they all sound amazing, Levi told Entertainment Tonight.
New Line is developing Shazam 2 with Henry Gayden returning to write the film, along with David F Sandberg directing and Peter Safran producing.
The film's release was pushed from April 2022 to November 2022 after the coronavirus outbreak brought the movie industry to a grinding halt.
The actor said film sets will be completely different when the entertainment industry reopens post the pandemic.
''There's definitely going to be some major protocols that are put in place. What these protocols are, I'm not sure yet.I'm doing my own due diligence as an actor waiting to go back 

Shazam 2' still on track: Zachary Levi

Disgraced former American cyclist Lance Armstrong has revealed he first started doping from the age of 21, during his first season as a professional.
"Wow, straight to the point, probably 21," Armstrong replied when asked how old he was when he first doped as part of an ESPN documentary.
The exchange with US journalist Marina Zenovich appeared in a 90-second trailer released on Monday for a two-part documentary called "Lance" which will be broadcast by ESPN on May 24 and 31.
During the clip, in which former US Postal Service team-mates Tyler Hamilton and George Hincapie respond to the same question about performance-enhancing drugs, Armstrong, now 48, explains there are "a bunch of ways to define doping".
"The easiest way to define it is breaking the rules. Were we getting injections of vitamins and other things like that at an earlier age? Yes, but they weren't illegal. I always asked (what I was being given). I always knew, and I always made the decision on my own," he said.
"Nobody 

Lance Armstrong admits to first doping 'probably at 21'

Joe Biden's presidential campaign is bringing on the granddaughter of civil rights leader Csar Chvez as a senior adviser to help with Latino outreach and building out its operation in the states.
Some Latino leaders have criticized the Biden campaign, saying it's not doing enough to reach out to the key demographic group.  Chavez Rodriguez previously worked as co-national political director on California Sen. Kamala Harris's presidential campaign and was her California state director before that. She also served in the Obama administration, overseeing the White House's engagement with LGBT, Latino, veteran, youth, education, labor and progressive leaders.  She's joining Cristbal Alex, a former president of the Latino Victory Fund, who serves as Biden's senior adviser for issues involving Hispanic voters.
Biden is viewed with skepticism by some Latinos for his ties to deportation policies during the Obama administration. He struggled with Latino outreach throughout the Democratic ...

Biden hires former Harris aide to help with Latino outreach

An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has sentenced two Islamist militants to death for their involvement in a 2017 suicide bombing at a Sufi shrine in Sindh province in which 82 people were killed.
According to police, the accused -- Nadir Ali and Furqan -- were identified by the eyewitnesses and judicial magistrate Mushtaq Ali Jokhio through CCTV footage.
The duo, who were sentenced to death by the court on Monday, were found guilty in the 2017 bombing case in Sehwan Sharif area of Sindh province.
As many as 82 people were killed and over 250 others were injured when a suicide bomber launched a grenade before blowing himself up at the Sufi shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sehwan Sharif on February 16, 2017
The Islamic State militant group had claimed the responsibility for the brutal attack.
The blast hit as Sufi Muslims were gathering to perform the dhamaal ritual.
The sect is regarded as heretical by Salafist jihadi groups, including the ISIS, the Taliban and the al-Qaeda.
Ali and .

Pak court sentences 2 Islamist militants to death for involvement in 2017 Sufi shrine bombing

Sony Corporation plans to make its financial services unit a wholly owned subsidiary to ensure stability as it rides out the hardships brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
"We will be able to carry out more flexible management," Kenichiro Yoshida, chief executive of the Japanese entertainment and electronics company, told reporters in a livestream news conference Tuesday.
Tokyo-based Sony is making a tender offer for the shares of Sony Financial Holdings Inc, of which it now owns about 65%.
Sony said the company name will become Sony Group Corp., upon shareholders' approval later this year, effective April 1, 2021. Its electronics segment will take on the Sony Corporation name, it said.
Sony technology is likely to prove useful in future financial services, such as the fintech area, it said, providing "synergies". It will also enhance profitability, it said.
That term, used by Sony for years, refers to how various parts of its sprawling operations can work together for overall ...

Sony to buy full control of financial unit to weather crisis

Actor Gregory Tyree Boyce, best known for featuring in the first "Twilight" film, was found dead along with his girlfriend at his home in Las Vegas.
According to Deadline, the bodies of 30-year-old Boyce and his girlfriend, Natalie Adepoju, were found at their house last week.
Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Larry Hadfield told Las Vegas Review-Journal that the officers responded to a "dead body" call at 2.48 pm last Wednesday.
The cause of their deaths is not yet ascertained.
In Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson's 2008 blockbuster "Twilight", Boyce played a high-school student named Tyler Crowley.
His mother, Lisa Wayne, mourned his sudden death in a post on Facebook on Sunday.
"We were supposed to meet on Tuesday with my dad to discuss some plans for our near future to launch us into a great future, but that never happened. Greggy, if I could get my chef on like you, I'd continue this West Wings and set your baby girl up for life. You told me that you didn't want me to ..

'Twilight' actor Gregory Tyree Boyce found dead at Las Vegas home

Over 2,200 Indian nationals stranded in the UK due to the COVID-19 related international travel restrictions have been flown back home during the first phase of India's biggest ever repatriation exercise, according to official figures.
Since the first special Air India flight took off from London's Heathrow Airport for Mumbai on May 8, there have been eight routes to different Indian cities from the UK for Indian students and tourists.
Indian nationals were flown home to the cities of Mumbai, New Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai and Ahmedabad.
We have facilitated repatriation of 2,288 Indians stranded in the UK through eight Air India flights till 17 May. Vande Bharat Mission continues to get Indians home, said the Indian High Commission in London.
The Vande Bharat Mission is India's biggest ever repatriation exercise to bring back Indians from abroad who are unable to travel home due to COVID-19 related international travel restrictions.
As the second phase of the repatriation process gets .

COVID19: 2,288 Indians repatriated from UK, OCI students urge help

Hollywood star Chris Pratt, who is expecting his first child with author Katherine Schwarzenegger, says his wife's pregnancy cravings include pickles and ice cream, which he quipped has been "tough" to deal with.
The "Guardians of the Galaxy" star said he has stopped "complaining" about gaining weight in quarantine after it hit him that Schwarzenegger is pregnant.
"It's been tough  pickles and ice cream... I never thought I would like 'em," Pratt, 40, joked.
"Can I be honest with you? I found myself complaining the other day about a little bit of low back and hip pain and how in quarantine I've gained a little weight and she just looked at me sweetly.
"I was like... 'Oh, right, right, I don't really get to complain about that to you right now, do I?'" the actor told Extra magazine.
This will be the second child for Pratt, who shares seven-and-a half-year-old son Jack with former wife, actor Anna Faris and the first for Schwarzenegger, the eldest daughter of Hollywood action veteran ...

Chris Pratt opens up about wife Katherine Schwarzenegger's pregnancy

Tyson Fury has set his sights on emulating Wladimir Klitschko's sustained dominance as the British fighter warned he can remain a world champion until he retires.
Klitschko was the undisputed world champion for over four years until Fury earned a shock win against the Ukrainian in 2015.
Fury was unable to defend those titles amid mental health problems, but he has bounced back impressively.
The 31-year-old wants to stay at the top after regaining his WBC heavyweight belt in February with an emphatic win over Deontay Wilder, who he is due to face again once the coronavirus is subdued.
"I've won every single belt in boxing. From the English title to becoming the undisputed heavyweight champ of the world. All done, all finished. Considered the best, done," Fury told Sky Sports on Tuesday.
"If I don't box again, I'm happy, but if I do box again, then I continue to box. If we get past this thing, which hopefully we will, then we're going to keep boxing and just keep taking on ...

Fury plans to emulate Klitschko's longevity

Cristiano Ronaldo returned to training with Juventus in Turin on Tuesday after an absence of over two months because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The 35-year-old drove himself into the Juventus Training Centre in a Jeep with tinted windows.
The five-time Ballon d'Or winner will undergo medical and physical tests before joining up with his teammates in training, according to media reports.
Juventus players returned to individual training on May 4, the day Ronaldo returned to Italy after spending lockdown in his native Portugal.
For the past two weeks, he has been in quarantine in his villa in Turin.
Ronaldo played in Juventus's last Serie A game before the season was suspended, a 2-0 win over Inter Milan behind closed doors at the Allianz Stadium on March 8.
Italy has been one of the countries hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic with more than 32,000 deaths.
Juventus are leading Lazio by one point as they target a ninth consecutive Scudetto.
Ronaldo is the first Juventus foreign ...

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