Imagine being told to prepare for the worst: your pregnant partner, and the unborn baby inside her, are unlikely to survive. 

Everyone who tests positive for coronavirus could soon receive a one-off payment of £500, in a government move to persuade more people to get a test and self-isolate after a positive result.

The full closure of the UK's borders has been "considered" by the government amid concerns about new COVID variants being imported from abroad, a minister has revealed.

Joe Biden has warned that the fight to bring coronavirus under control in the US is a "wartime undertaking" - devoting much of his first full day in office to tackling the pandemic.

Temperatures could drop as low as -10C in the coming days, as heavy rain brought by Storm Christoph is replaced by sub-zero conditions this weekend.

Canada's governor general - the Queen's representative - has resigned amid allegations she presided over a toxic work environment in which staff were bullied to tears.

The brother of one of the Reading terror attack victims has spoken on what would have been his 40th birthday, saying his life had been "taken away for no reason whatsoever".

On 16 January 2018, more than five months after the man who murdered and dismembered journalist Kim Wall's body was arrested, authorities were finally able to charge him.

Investigators have arrested 320 of the UK's most dangerous child sex offenders since the first coronavirus lockdown, it has been revealed.

Public sector net borrowing reached £34.1bn in December - the third-highest monthly figure since records began in 1993.