The UK is in a "deeply uncomfortable" fiscal position ahead of next month's budget, experts have warned, after government borrowing costs soared to a near 30-year high amid growing pressure on global bond yields.

Forecasters have warned it is almost certain that this year's El Nino will intensify into a very strong event in the coming months and last until February next year.

Water companies dumped sewage into England's waters for more than 43,000 hours during July and August, new data from campaigners Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) shows.

At least two people have died and several are injured after a shooting in downtown Minneapolis.

A 34-year-old British woman has been stabbed to death in a hotel corridor in Portugal.

The family of a student killed in the Nottingham attacks have criticised police for not warning them that a mentally ill man was "fixated" on the case.

Six police officers with Greater Manchester Police (GMP) have been sacked following an investigation into alleged racial discrimination against a fellow officer, the force said.

A Maltese businessman accused of being the mastermind of the 2017 car bomb killing of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has been acquitted.