Priti Patel has announced an independent inquiry into the "systematic failures" by the police following the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving officer.
Two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine are 90% effective against COVID-19 hospitalisation for at least six months but only 47% effective against infection after that period, according to a new study.
AstraZeneca has requested US authorisation for emergency use of its new treatment to prevent COVID-19 in people who have a lessened response to vaccines because of a weakened immune system.
After nearly four months without a winner, a single ticket sold in California has won the Powerball jackpot worth $699.8m (£514m), officials have said.
Facebook was hit by an outage on Monday that lasted almost six hours, making not only its platforms inaccessible to users but also preventing staff from accessing its internal network too.
The Catholic Church in France showed complete and sometimes cruel indifference to people who suffered sexual abuse at the hands of clergy for decades, a commission investigating the abuse has found.
