Downing Street is under pressure to make public why Boris Johnson's ethics adviser has quit - as the government faces an urgent question in the Commons over his exit.

Kevin Spacey has arrived at a court in London charged with sexually assaulting three men.

The captain of a £38m superyacht detained in London has said it is the victim of a "PR stunt" and that ministers have "got the wrong guy".

The main suspect in the killings of a British journalist and indigenous expert has confessed to fatally shooting them in a remote part of the Amazon, Brazilian police have said.

Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell say she should face no more than four or five years in prison, instead of the possible 30-year term she stands at risk of.

A dozen children were served floor sealant instead of milk at a day care summer programme at a school in Alaska.

Some 47 cats have been rescued from a car parked in sweltering heat, animal welfare workers have said.

A consumer champion is suing Apple for £768m over a software update in 2017 that effectively slowed down older iPhones.

Shares in the online fashion retailers ASOS and Boohoo have taken sharp dives after both revealed cost of living-related pain to the market.

Scientists believe they have uncovered the origins of the Black Death, more than 600 years after the plague killed millions of people in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.