Another 194,747 coronavirus cases and 334 deaths have been reported in the latest daily UK figures.

Thirteen people, including seven children, have died in a house fire in Philadelphia after smoke alarms failed to go off.

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.

The Carabao Cup semi-final first leg between Liverpool and Arsenal has been postponed due to rising COVID-19 cases within the Merseyside club.

The presidential palace in Kazakhstan's biggest city is on fire and the city administration building is burning from top to bottom, according to reports, after country-wide protests broke out.

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.