Two police forces have agreed to pay damages to more than 600 survivors and family members following a cover-up of the Hillsborough disaster, lawyers have said.

A toddler has died after being found in a paddling pool in Derbyshire, police have said.

Uighurs are treated "worse than dogs" in Chinese camps in Xinjiang, a new "people's tribunal" into their treatment has heard.

The clinical trial results released today by the MHRA show once again just how good the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is.

Brussels is to ban Belarusian planes from EU airspace as it ramps up pressure on the Minsk regime over the forced diversion of a passenger jet and arrest of a government critic.

Filming for the next instalment of Mission: Impossible in the UK has been halted after positive COVID-19 tests were reported, Paramount Pictures has said.

England's R number has risen slightly to between 1 and 1.2.

UK ministers have repeatedly defended the decision to move Portugal from green to amber on its travel list by saying the threat of the new Nepal COVID variant is behind their reasoning.