Contingency plans are being drawn up over fears a quarter of public sector workers could be absent due to the Omicron wave of COVID infections.

A fire has broken out at South Africa's parliament in Cape Town.

Microsoft says it is aware of a programming flaw which saw some customers' Exchange servers stop processing emails just as the clock struck midnight on New Year's Eve.

Prince Andrew's bid to block the continuation of a lawsuit by a woman who says he sexually assaulted her when she was 17 - on the grounds that she no longer lives in the US - has been rejected by a judge.

It was "respectful" and the "right thing to do" to give Tony Blair a knighthood, the Commons Speaker has said.

Rural farming communities in Wales could be "decimated" if blanket afforestation is allowed, according to the president of the National Farmers Union in Wales.

Israel has launched strikes against militant targets on the Gaza Strip a day after rockets were fired from the Hamas-ruled territory.

Longlong the elephant is eight months old, 300kg - and still hungry. Even a short amble through the forest of his sanctuary takes some time, as he eats every bit of foliage in range of his trunk.

Secondary school students in England are once again being asked to wear masks in classrooms to help tackle the rise in Omicron coronavirus cases.

Emergency services searching for people missing after wildfires swept through communities in Colorado will use cadaver dogs to hunt through layers of fresh snow covering the smouldering debris.