Joe Biden has described the violent assault on US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband as "despicable" – as San Francisco's police chief has said it was "not a random attack".

The largest automaker in the US has pulled paid advertising on Twitter after Elon Musk completed his takeover of the social media company.

A man wanted in connection with the deaths of 39 people found in the back of an Essex lorry will appear in court this morning.

The head of the Royal Navy has ordered an investigation into "abhorrent" claim of "sexual bullying" in the submarine service.

In 1965, before women in America had the constitutional right to choose abortion, a then 19-year-old student at the University of Chicago helped a friend find a doctor who was willing to carry out the procedure illegally. 

A Royal Navy ship has stopped and torched a boat caught smuggling £24m of cocaine in the Caribbean.

The UK is now spending more of its aid budget at home than in poorer countries, development experts have said.

There has been a sharp increase in the number of people forced to move across the country to escape homelessness, leaving behind jobs, schools, family and friends.

NASA has shared an image of the sun "smiling", after one of their satellites captured patterns on its surface appearing to show a happy face.

When you glance at Han Lay's Instagram feed it might be hard to believe that she faces a death sentence in her home country of Myanmar.