A 12-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy involved in an incident off Bournemouth beach died of drowning, a coroner has heard.

The private equity backer of the Six Nations rugby championship is among the suitors pursuing a takeover of Center Parcs, the British chain of holiday resorts.

Thirty people in England will be given £1,600 a month - no strings attached - in the country's first trial of a universal basic income (UBI).

Rail services have resumed over a stretch of the railway network in eastern India where a train crash killed 275 people - as an investigation into the disaster began.

Two more barges will be used to house asylum seekers as part of continued efforts to reduce Channel crossings, Rishi Sunak has announced.

The embattled CBI business lobby group faces another threat - this time in the form of rival business group and challenger the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC).

The mother of a 12-year-old girl who died after getting into difficulty in the water off Bournemouth beach last week says she was "so well loved and well liked".

A woman jailed for 20 years over the deaths of her four children has been pardoned after a judicial review.

Nearly 80 girls have been poisoned and hospitalised in two separate attacks at their primary schools in Afghanistan, an official has said.

Rescuers have found the wreckage of a wayward plane which crashed after flying across Washington DC.