Three more cases of the Omicron COVID-19 variant have been identified in Scotland, taking the UK's total to 14.

Fresh measures designed to deal with the emergence of the new COVID-19 variant Omicron have come into force in England.

A survivor of the Channel boat tragedy has described how the passengers held hands when the vessel capsized to try to save each other from drowning.

The Prince of Wales has formally acknowledged "the appalling atrocity of slavery" in the Caribbean, saying "it forever stains our history" at an event to mark Barbados becoming a republic.

Ghislaine Maxwell targeted young girls and manipulated them before "serving them up for sexual abuse", a US prosecutor said in her opening statement in the New York trial of the British socialite.

Australia's third-largest banking group has revealed it is facing a fine for a string of alleged regulatory failures including charging financial advice fees to thousands of dead customers.

The daughter of a 41-year-old man who is fighting for his life after contracting COVID fears her father knows he is "trapped in his own body" - and doctors have warned the family to prepare for the worst.

Josephine Baker will be the first black woman to be honoured by the French government with a place in the Pantheon.

Former Empire star Jussie Smollett is "a real victim" of a "real crime", his lawyer said as the US actor's trial got under way in Chicago.

Police have searched Marilyn Manson's home amid allegations of physical and sexual abuse by several women.