Both sides in the fight over whether Novak Djokovic should be allowed to enter Australia have now set out the arguments they plan to use in court.

The UK has recorded 141,472 new COVID-19 cases and a further 97 deaths in the latest 24-hour period.

Joe Root praised England's fight after his side clung on for a draw in the fourth Ashes Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

The Australian government had not given Novak Djokovic an assurance that a medical exemption he said he had to enter Australia without a COVID-19 vaccination would be accepted, government lawyers said in a court filing on Sunday.

A man has been arrested after allegedly trying to abduct a four-year-old girl at a pub.

Someone who had eaten a mouldy tomato and a person with a paper cut are among the most ridiculous 999 calls made to the emergency services last year.

A total of 164 people have been killed in protests in Kazakhstan over the past week, the country's health ministry has said.

Jurgen Klopp will return to the dugout for Liverpool's home FA Cup third-round tie against Shrewsbury Town on Sunday.

The foreign secretary's restatement of the government's readiness to trigger Article 16 - unilaterally overriding parts of the post-Brexit agreement on Northern Ireland - is "not very helpful", the EU's ambassador to the UK has told Sky News.

A "no-fly zone" could be placed over Windsor Castle as police review security arrangements at the Queen's home in Berkshire.