All Scotland pupils back in classroom full-time after Easter break – except those shielding

All pupils across Scotland will be back in the classroom full-time following the Easter holidays, Nicola Sturgeon has said.

UK-made COVID vaccine Valneva shows ‘strong immune response’ in early trials

Tests on a new COVID vaccine in the UK have so far shown it produces a "strong immune response", Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.

Yahoo Answers is shutting down – here are 10 of the best questions ever asked

Yahoo Answers is going to be shut down after more than 15 years of providing the web with hilarious content.

EU medical regulator’s chief: ‘Increasingly difficult’ to say no link between Oxford jab and rare blood clots

The head of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has said it is "increasingly difficult" to say there is "no cause and effect relationship" between the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab and "rare cases of unusual blood clots".

PM has not ‘given up’ on foreign holidays from 17 May – and holidaymakers could use lateral flow tests

Boris Johnson has not "given up" on allowing Britons to jet abroad from 17 May as he raised the prospect of holidaymakers being able to use cheaper and faster COVID tests on their return...

UK variant in every US state as experts warn COVID-19 ‘is not done with us’

The highly contagious UK COVID-19 variant first discovered in Kent has now been reported in every state in the US.

EU medical regulator’s chief: ‘Increasingly difficult’ to say no link between Oxford jab and rare blood clots

The head of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has said it is "increasingly difficult" to say there is "no cause and effect relationship" between the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab and "rare cases of unusual blood clots".

More than 1,800 prisoners escape after gunmen attack Nigeria jail

More than 1,800 prisoners have escaped from a prison in Nigeria after an attack by suspected militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns.