A fourth COVID-19 vaccine could be approved for use in the UK within weeks after late-stage trials suggested it was 89% effective in preventing coronavirus.

A jab made by the US firm Novavax could become the fourth vaccine to be approved in the UK after promising data from a late-stage trial emerged.

A contract between Brussels and AstraZeneca for its COVID-19 vaccine contains binding orders, EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has said.

The SNP is facing fresh claims that senior party figures conspired against its former leader Alex Salmond.    

Apple and Facebook are on course for a series of clashes as court cases and technological developments pit their business models against each other. The technology industry will be reshaped in the winner's image.

Shares in US retailer GameStop have fallen 44% to lose some of the extraordinary gains fuelled by Reddit users - only to recover again in after-hours trading.

Elon Musk has posted an angry message on Twitter, telling the US Federal Aviation Authorities that "humanity will never get to Mars" because it didn't approve a test flight of SpaceX's Starship when he wanted.

Wales' first minister is to extend the country's coronavirus lockdown for another three weeks.

Cicely Tyson, the pioneering Black Hollywood actress known for portraying characters of strength, has died aged 96.

Prisoners in England should start being offered coronavirus vaccines from today, the prisons minister has told Sky News.