Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak will not be isolating despite being 'pinged' after Sajid Javid's positive COVID test, Downing Street has said.

The third wave of the coronavirus pandemic in the UK is not expected to peak until "late August, maybe even early September", a minister has said.

A daunting recovery and clean-up operation is getting under way after at least 170 people died in flooding in western Europe.

Britney Spears has posted on Instagram that she won't perform again while her father has control over her career.

Police have released images of 10 people they want to question over unrest at the Euro 2020 final at Wembley Stadium.

All UK adults have been offered a first dose of a COVID vaccine - hitting the prime minister's target just ahead of schedule, the government has announced.

For performance venues around England, it is the week they have been waiting for - being able to legally fill their auditoriums after 17 months.

It has been asked many times in the build up to the Games - why is Japan still hosting them when the COVID-19 pandemic is still unfolding?

One of the great puzzles emerging from the last year has been why, in spite of COVID, repeated lockdown, and surging self-isolation, recruitment agencies have seldom been busier.