The Premier League is facing a fresh bout of boardroom upheaval with the resignation of its longest-serving independent director amid the COVID-induced chaos that has hit the top flight of English football.

A major laboratory in Australia incorrectly told 400 people their coronavirus test result was negative on Christmas Day, when they had actually tested positive for the virus.

BBC radio presenter Janice Long, who was the first regular female host of Top of the Pops, has died after a "short illness" at the age of 66, her agent has announced.

Pep Guardiola has urged supporters to wear masks in stadiums to limit the spread of coronavirus.

They stood hand in hand on the day Nelson Mandela became South Africa's first democratically elected president, for the pair had changed the nation.

The bodies of 16 Kurdish migrants who drowned while crossing the English Channel in November have been repatriated to Iraq, according to local reports.

England's batting flopped yet again with Joe Root's side crumbling to 185 all out on day one of the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne as their dismal tour continued and Australia inched closer to retaining The Ashes.

"Blizzard conditions" could hit northern parts of the UK over higher ground on Sunday, forecasters have said, as heavy rain and snow are also expected in some regions.

South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the leaders of the anti-apartheid movement, has died at the age of 90, the President's Office has said.

The origin of the black church is often debated, but one thing is certain - it was the arrival of the Windrush generation that prompted its growth in England.