There was no prior suggestion that today's set of economic data would be any different in make up than previous months; indeed figures for retail sales, industrial production and employment were all there as expected.

For the firefighters on Maui, it's been a grim and gruelling week and they are still tackling new outbreaks of fire, sparked from smouldering wreckage. I find several of them chatting at the side of the road.

Private sector wages and total pay, including bonuses, surpassed inflation despite a surprise rise in the rate of UK unemployment.

As prosecutors would have it, election interference in Georgia came with a soundtrack.

A court in Georgia has charged Donald Trump with trying to illegally overturn the 2020 election.

A fire at a petrol station in Dagestan, Russia has killed 27 people including three children.

Supermarket prices for some branded snack foods have more than doubled in the last year, as the rising cost of living has squeezed household budgets, a leading consumer group has said.

Ministers are injecting £250m into the NHS ahead of winter as they try to get a grip on record waiting times for treatment.

The number of online grooming crimes against children hit a record high in the last year, police figures show.

A court in Georgia investigating Donald Trump over the 2020 election has confirmed 10 indictments.