The Indian delegation in the UK for this week's G7 meeting is self-isolating after two positive COVID tests among them, Sky News understands.

India accounted for nearly half of the coronavirus cases reported worldwide last week and one in four of the deaths, the World Health Organisation has said.

A British woman of Pakistani origin has been found dead in the city of Lahore.

France has threatened to cut off the supply of electricity to Jersey in a fight over post-Brexit fishing rights.

A member of the American family that owns Manchester United has refused to apologise to fans over the disastrous attempt to form a breakaway European Super League.

Laboratories to test current and new COVID-19 vaccines against variants of concern are to be built at Porton Down, the government has announced.

The world's oldest person has pulled out of the torch relay for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics because she does not want to spread COVID-19 in her care home.

Former police officer Derek Chauvin has asked for a new trial, two weeks after he was found guilty of killing George Floyd.

Bridget Jones is on a list of international celebrities granted VIP status under the government's new points-based immigration system. V good, she would write in her diary.

Colleagues of murdered PCSO Julia James have warned the public to be "very safe and very careful" as candles were lit in her memory.