Idris Elba, ice dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, as well as England's victorious women's football and rugby teams, are among 1,157 people recognised in the New Year Honours list.

Two December days in Palm Beach and I have sunburn and whiplash.

The two "close friends" of Anthony Joshua killed in a car crash in Nigeria in which the British boxer was injured have been named by his spokesperson.

Nightfall in Bristol and volunteers at One25 are stocking up their van for the evening.

China has fired rockets into the waters off Taiwan on a second day of large-scale war games around the island aimed at rehearsing a blockade.

Yvette Cooper has ordered an urgent Foreign Office review of "serious information failures" in the case of a freed British-Egyptian activist.

The Cabinet Office has blamed an "administrative error" after historical royal documents relating to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor were released by mistake.

Bangladesh's first female prime minister Khaleda Zia has died following a prolonged illness, her political party has said.

A mother and two children have died after a Boxing Day fire in Stroud, Gloucestershire.

Octopus Energy Group is on the brink of selling a big stake in its software arm, Kraken Technologies, at a valuation that will cement its status as one of Britain's biggest private companies.