An announcement on mandatory hotel quarantine will be made later, a government minister has told Sky News, as he said it was "far too early" for Britons to be thinking about booking a summer holiday.

Three times a day the doorbell would ring.

The European Union has threatened to impose strict controls on the exporting of coronavirus vaccines made in the bloc.

Conditions in the city of Manaus, deep in the Amazon rainforest where the Brazilian variant of COVID-19 is believed to have originated, are now so bad that people are suffocating in hospital beds without oxygen.

The UK's unemployment rate has hit 5% for the first time since 2016, according to official figures which suggest over 200,000 people lost their jobs in the three months to November.

Joe Biden has suggested the US could soon be vaccinating an average of 1.5 million Americans a day - but warned the country's growing COVID death toll could still top 600,000.

Taking a regular afternoon nap could be one way to stay mentally agile, according to a new study.

The youngest known victim of the notorious Green River serial killer has been identified, almost 37 years after her remains were discovered near Seattle, Washington.

A woman who slit the throat of a seven-year-old girl has had her minimum term increased after the judge said it had been "calculated in error".

It is "far too early" for Britons to be thinking about booking a summer holiday, a minister has told Sky News.