Myanmar's deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi has received a four-year jail sentence as a court delivers the first verdicts in a number of cases which could see her imprisoned for decades.

The prime minister has rejected suggestions the government acted too late in reintroducing travel restrictions after the discovery of the Omicron variant of COVID-19.

The next pandemic could be more deadly than COVID-19, according to one of the scientists behind the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.

Former England and Yorkshire fast bowler Darren Gough has been appointed as the managing director of cricket for Yorkshire CCC on an interim basis.

More than 3,000 homes are still without heating and hot water, some 10 days after Storm Arwen affected power supplies - and as a second major storm of the winter is set to batter the UK in the next 24 hours.

The grandfather of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes has said that the couple behind his death "must never see the light of day again".

Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has told Sky News he is to call in police after claims that drug abuse is rife in the Houses of Parliament.

Harsher punishments to deter drug use, including the removal of passports and driving licences, night-time curfews and travel bans like those imposed on football hooligans, will form part of a government crackdown on illegal drug-related crime.

A British teenager who survived a crocodile attack in Zambia has said she had "fully accepted" she would lose a foot.

An investigation is under way after trespassers were spotted on the future site of a memorial for the Manchester Arena terror attack victims.