A UK warship has shot down a Houthi missile targeting a merchant ship in the Gulf of Aden, the Royal Navy has said.

The Italian government sent an ambulance in a military plane to remove a newborn baby from a hospital in Bristol in a highly unusual move after the boy's parents said doctors were unable to do anything more for the child.

An investigation has been launched after a black man died in police custody in the US.

The Scottish Green Party will join with rival MSPs to back a no-confidence motion in First Minister Humza Yousaf next week, after the SNP kicked its coalition partners out of government.

Here's a headline from the latest crime figures you may not see much in the media and perhaps weren't expecting: crime is at an all-time low. 

Call it the Rishi Sunak reset week or, to borrow from The Spectator's Katy Balls, the shore-up Sunak week - the prime minister will be going into this weekend feeling the past few days have been a job well done. 

More than 115,000 asylum seekers will be trapped in "permanent limbo" by the end of the year as a result of the government's flagship Rwanda plan, according to a detailed study by the Refugee Council.

A 13-year-old girl has been charged with three counts of attempted murder after two teachers and a pupil were stabbed at a school.

One of Britain's biggest double-glazing suppliers has crashed into administration, leaving insolvency practitioners engaged in a race to salvage hundreds of jobs.

The Scottish Green Party will join with rival MSPs to back a no confidence motion in First Minister Humza Yousaf next week, after the SNP kicked its coalition partners out of government.