Fines issued after illegal nightclub – complete with VIP area – is found in Birmingham

Around 70 people have been fined £200 each after an illegal nightclub - complete with a DJ and VIP area - was raided by police in central Birmingham.

Power outages in Texas as winter snowstorms sweep across the US

More than two million people in Texas have been left without electricity as snowstorms and freezing temperatures hit parts of the US.

COVID test on your night out? PM sees ‘route forward’ for reopening nightclubs

Britons could be allowed to return to nightclubs and theatres with the use of rapid coronavirus tests, the prime minister has suggested.

‘We’re already going crazy’: Passengers begin 10-day UK hotel quarantine

Passengers who have been forced to spend £1,750 and 10 days quarantining in hotels after touching down in the UK have likened it to being in prison.

‘Progress’ made on vaccine hesitancy amid ‘pandemic of disinformation’, NHS chief says

"Meaningful progress" is being made in the campaign to overcome vaccine hesitancy, but it is happening amid a "pandemic of disinformation", the head of the NHS in England has said.

Banning care home visits ‘inhumane and barbaric’, says one still allowing family contact

A care home which has allowed visitors to hug their loved ones all the way through the current coronavirus lockdown says keeping relatives out is "inhumane and barbaric".

First African woman to lead WTO after Biden lifts Trump block over job

Former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is to lead the World Trade Organisation (WTO) after Joe Biden lifted former US president Donald Trump's block on her appointment.

Govt scientists want to keep social distancing in place for foreseeable future

Government scientists want to keep social distancing measures in place for the foreseeable future in a move that would hit shops, pubs, cinemas and theatres, Sky News has learnt.