A cabinet minister has dismissed the Owen Paterson lobbying scandal as a "Westminster storm in a teacup" and admitted a "frustration" that the row has shifted focus from the COP26 climate change summit.

The health secretary has urged elderly and vulnerable people to get their COVID-19 booster jabs "as soon as you can" to help avoid restrictions being imposed over Christmas.

Travis Scott has promised to help the families of the eight people who were killed during his concert at the Astroworld festival in Texas, saying he could never "imagine anything like this happening".

They have infuriated motorists by bringing traffic to a standstill and dozens of their activists are facing possible jail sentences over their road-blocking antics.

Another crew member who was working on the film Rust is in hospital, where doctors are fighting to save his arm following a spider bite.

Iraq's prime minister has survived an attempted assassination by a drone armed with explosives.

UB40 founding member Astro has died at the age of 64.

A federal US appeals court has paused President Joe Biden's plans to mandate vaccines for private businesses with more than 100 employees.

A missing 16-year-old girl has been found in the US after she used hand signals that went viral on TikTok to show a driver she was in danger.

It was Thursday night and Alok Sharma, the president of COP26, was on stage at the Kelvingrove Gallery in Glasgow in front of the chief negotiators introducing a special guest.