Your morning briefing: What you should know for Thursday, July 30

Self-isolation period for coronavirus expected to be extended to 10 days

The self-isolation period for those with coronavirus symptoms is expected to be extended to 10 days.

The deputy chief medical officer for England, Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, is reportedly set to announce the change in advice on Thursday.

Currently, those who have a new continuous cough, high temperature or loss of taste or smell, have to isolate themselves for seven days.

It comes amid health leaders' fears of a "second spike" and an ongoing row over 14-day quarantine measures put in place for travellers returning from Spain.

Madeleine McCann investigators conclude search of allotment in Germany

Police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have finished their search of a garden in Germany and discovered the remains of a cellar at the site , local media has reported.

Prosecutors said the two-day search in Hanover was linked to a murder investigation against a 43-year-old man but could not comment further.

Madeleine was three when she went missing while on holiday with her family in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on May 3 2007.

German investigators believe prime suspect, named as Christian B, killed her soon after abducting her from a holiday apartment in the resort.

PM made several inaccurate claims about child poverty levels, says statistics watchdog

Boris Johnson has made a number of inaccurate claims about child poverty levels since becoming Prime Minister, the UK's statistics watchdog has ruled.

The Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) responded to complaints over three incidences when Mr Johnson made what were described as "misleading" statements.

Mark Zuckerberg accused of plan to neutralise competitors in Instagram deal

Mark Zuckerberg called Instagram a threat that could “meaningfully hurt” Facebook before its acquisition of the photo-sharing app, a showdown in Congress has heard.

The bosses of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google all fended off accusations that their companies stifle competition, under intense questioning before US lawmakers.

Jerrold Nadler, the Democrat head the House Judiciary Committee, said documents obtained from the company "tell a very disturbing story" of Facebook's acquisition of the Instagram.

He said the documents show Mr Zuckerberg called Instagram a threat that could "meaningfully hurt" Facebook.

Maxwell loses last-ditch effort to keep potentially damaging deposition from becoming public

Ghislaine Maxwell's has lost her last-ditch effort to keep a potentially damaging deposition from becoming public.

The British socialite is defending against criminal charges she aided the late financier Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of girls.

A New York judge rejected Maxwell's argument that her arrest on July 2 and indictment were "compelling" reasons to continue sealing her April 2016 deposition, and a deposition by an unnamed Epstein accuser.

The depositions came from a now-closed civil defamation lawsuit against Maxwell by one of Epstein's accusers, Virginia Giuffre.

Huge spike in London cycle hire during lockdown

A record number of people have been hiring bicycles in London during the coronavirus lockdown.

More than two million so-called Boris Bikes were rented throughout May and June, according to Transport for London.

TfL said membership of its cycle hire scheme had increased by 200 per cent since March, with 85,000 new people signing up.

The scheme, sponsored by Santander, had never previously surpassed 50,000 hires on a normal workday. But within the last seven weeks this record has been broken 13 times.