Airbnb bans house parties worldwide, citing virus mandates

Airbnb is banning house parties worldwide as it tries to clean up its reputation and comply with coronavirus-related limits on gatherings. The San Francisco home sharing company will limit occupancy in its rental homes to 16 people. It may offer exceptions for boutique hotels or other event venues.  Airbnb has always prohibited unauthorized parties, and … Read more

Married At First Sight BANS Victorians from the new season

Heartbreak for Melbourne socialites as Married At First Sight BANS Victorians from the new season after a second wave of COVID-19 cases in the state Do you know a Married At First Sight participant? Email [email protected]  By Ali Daher For Daily Mail Australia Published: 04:36 BST, 18 August 2020 | Updated: 04:41 BST, 18 August … Read more

Apple bans Epic Games from App store after anti-trust lawsuit

Apple retaliated against Epic Games after being served an anti-trust lawsuit for pulling the wildly popular video game Fortnite from the App Store.  The tech giant is set to remove Epic Games’s developer account from the platform on August 28 – banning the firm from designing apps for the App Store in the future. Epic is … Read more

Spain bans smoking in public nationwide and closes restaurants and bars

Spain announced it was banning smoking in the street without social distancing as it stepped up restrictions to stop the spread of coronavirus today. Health Minister Salvador Illa unveiled a raft of new measures to be enforced nationwide, including closing restaurants and bars. Nightclubs and late-night bars will be closed, restaurants will have to close … Read more

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: BBC bans Rudyard Kipling’s Mandalay from VJ Day commemoration 

His verse evokes the sweat and suffering of Tommy Atkins — the ordinary soldier who risks his neck in battle only to be consigned to oblivion in peacetime. But that has not prevented Rudyard Kipling’s celebrated poem Mandalay from being expunged from the BBC’s showpiece commemorating the 75th anniversary of VJ Day — much to … Read more

Young new drivers could face night bans and passenger restrictions

Graduated licences for new drivers will again be discussed by MPs as they look for ways to improve road safety and cut the death toll on Britain’s roads, according to new reports. It could see new motorists under the age of 25 banned from driving at night, not allowed to give lifts to friends and … Read more