It is instructive that, on news that Sony is setting up a unit to examine going into the electric vehicle market, its shares jumped by more than 4% on the Tokyo stock market.

Philippe Coutinho is set to agree a move to a Premier League club by this weekend, with five English clubs in a race to sign the Barcelona midfielder.

A juror in the sex-trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell has called Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice a "predator" and described his own sexual abuse ordeal.

The NHS is under pressure from COVID-19 hospitalisations, acute staff shortages and the normal strain from winter illnesses.

Pre-departure testing will no longer be required for travellers returning to the UK and arrivals will not have to isolate until they get a negative PCR test.

An estimated 3.7 million people in the UK had COVID-19 in the last week of the year, the Office for National Statistics has said.

Marseille's Boubacar Kamara and Wolves' Ruben Neves are two of a number of players Manchester United have been looking at in their search for a new midfielder.

Novak Djokovic's entry into Australia on a vaccine exemption has been delayed due to issues with the visa he and his team submitted.

The jury has retired in the case of fire people accused of tearing down the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol.

The coronavirus isolation period in Scotland is to be reduced from 10 days to seven, Nicola Sturgeon has announced.