About 2,000 properties in Greater Manchester were being evacuated overnight due to flooding from Storm Christoph - as heavy snow also hit the region.

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has signalled pupils could be told in a week's time if they will be returning to classrooms after the February half-term.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has had his first dose of coronavirus vaccine - and celebrated the moment by slipping in two lines from his film career.

Coronavirus infections did not slow down and may have increased instead in the first days of the latest national lockdown, a major ongoing study has found.

President Joe Biden starts his first full day in office pledging to unify the country and heal divisions after four turbulent years.

Is Joe Biden woke? Needless to say there are many more weighty questions flowing from the inauguration of a new mainstream liberal internationalist US president.

Champagne flowed at a bar in Atlanta, Georgia, as they whooped and hollered their approval through the US inauguration ceremony being held hundreds of miles away in the capital.

It was an inauguration like no other - no crowds, no outgoing president at the ceremony, and a surprise flurry of snow.

Joe Biden has made his inauguration speech after being sworn in as the 46th president - but how did it compare to previous US leaders?

Thousands of bereaved relatives have urged the British and Irish governments to open full investigations into the decades of violence known as The Troubles.