The US on Tuesday reported its first case, saying a Washington state resident who returned last week from the outbreak’s epicentre was taken to hospital near Seattle.

Peers backed a move to ensure the rights of child refugees to be reunited with their families in the UK in a fourth embarrassing Lords defeat for the PM’s Withdrawal Bill in hours.

The US president gave a rambling speech in Switzerland hours before his impeachment trial was to continue in the Senate.

Young climate activists warn Davos leaders climate change needs to be treated as a real crisis.

UK businesses warned Chancellor Sajid Javid’s vow to end alignment with the EU would mean the ‘death knell for frictionless trade'

The Counter Terrorism Bill is a “major shift” in dealing with and sentencing terrorism offenders.

Labour’s Nadia Whittome, 23, also accused politicians of using their drug experiences at university to “build street cred” while working-class people are criminalised for drug dealing.

Crews from Essex County Fire and Rescue Service reached the trapped dolphins using a hovercraft and inflatable sled.

“Children with relatives in the UK should not be surviving alone in camps and carparks in Europe, or pushed into the hands of people smugglers because safe, legal route to reach their family are shut down."