The government is being "wilfully negligent" by refusing to enforce its Plan B strategy for tackling rising COVID infections, doctors have claimed.

A health minister has denied there is a "plan C" to control COVID-19 by restricting household gatherings in England at Christmas if hospital admissions get worse.

The lack of social distancing and mask wearing is proof of "compassion fatigue", according to a chronically ill woman forced to stay at home for 19 months.

Southern parts of England suffered torrential downpours overnight after a storm moved in from France.

The maker of a host of well known consumer brands has revealed a big lift in prices and warned of worse to come as it battles "unprecedented cost inflation" around the world.

Staff at Netflix's headquarters in Hollywood have staged a walkout in protest at the release of a controversial special by the stand-up comedian Dave Chappelle.

Household banks and asset managers have invested tens of billions of pounds financing businesses involved with deforestation, according to a new report.

Donald Trump is launching a new social media platform to "stand up to the tyranny of big tech".

A man screamed at a visually impaired woman after she asked him to stop petting her guide dog.

Barclays has warned it may move to accelerate its transformation programme in the UK before the year's end while reporting record group profits for the first nine months of 2021.