A fresh booster jab drive has been launched by the NHS in an effort to protect more people from the rapid spread of the COVID-19 Omicron variant.

A number of scientists have said that the UK should follow in the footsteps of the US and reduce the COVID self-isolation period to five days, in an effort to protect the NHS.

A critically endangered Sumatran orangutan has given birth to a healthy male baby at a US zoo.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu's daughter has joined those paying tribute to the late anti-apartheid hero, recalling the day he saved a young man from being burned alive as her "proudest moment".

Books, coins, ammunition, and documents from the 1880s were among artefacts found in a time capsule uncovered beneath a statue of a Confederate leader in Virginia.

A total of 512 children were admitted to hospital with COVID in England in the week leading up to Boxing Day, figures have revealed.

The mother of Valentina Orellana-Peralta, a 14-year-old girl who was fatally shot by police in Los Angeles, has said seeing her daughter "die in her arms" was one of the "most profound pains any human being can imagine".

Prince Andrew has challenged his sexual abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre's residency status in a bid to have her civil case against him thrown out of court.

Police searching for a missing 12-year-old girl from Devon are appealing for help to find her father.

Two Save the Children staff members were among at least 35 people, including children, who were killed in Myanmar on Christmas Eve during an attack blamed on government forces.