Children as young as 10 and an 87-year-old pensioner have been tasered by police amid a sharp rise in officers firing the devices in the last three years.

Team GB's boxer Galal Yafai has won gold in the men's flyweight final at the Tokyo Olympics, as Tom Daley won the bronze medal in the men's 10 metre platform.

Further lockdowns are "unlikely" to be required to control the coronavirus pandemic in the UK, one of the government's top scientific advisers has said.

University of Sussex is offering students the chance to win £5,000 if they have had both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Thunderstorms could bring lightning, hail and heavy rain to parts of the UK this weekend, after a grey and wet start to August.

"Unity in diversity" has been more than a motto for Team GB.

A Team GB Olympian is selling some of his Tokyo 2020 merchandise on eBay to fund his preparations for the Commonwealth Games.

Britney Spears's father is fighting back against a challenge to his control of her money and affairs, saying there are "no grounds whatsoever" for removing him from the conservatorship.

A volunteer firefighter has been killed and thousands of people have been evacuated from an island near Athens as wildfires rage in Greece.

Most of the remaining COVID-19 restrictions in Wales have been lifted as the country moves to alert level zero.