Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called for a "new international treaty for pandemic preparedness and response".

The most likely origin for coronavirus was transmission from a bat to humans via an unidentified intermediate animal species, according to a long-awaited World Health Organisation (WHO) report due to be published today.

Sir Lenny Henry has written an open letter, signed by a number of household names, calling on black people in the UK to have the COVID-19 vaccine.

A former Minneapolis police officer knelt on George Floyd "until the very life was squeezed out of him", a jury has been told.

The videos of the last minutes of George Floyd's life are haunting and awful, one man's very public death recorded for the world to see.

Gangs in Manchester are increasingly using "horrendous" torture methods on kidnap victims involving blowtorches and waterboarding, a senior police officer has warned.

Hong Kong will vet all political candidates to ensure they are "patriots" under new laws that seek to remove any opposition and tighten China's control.

Wetherspoons has announced plans to open 18 new pubs and refurbish dozens more - but warned the investment was conditional on no more lockdowns and "constant changing of rules".

Myanmar activists have launched a "garbage strike" to oppose military rule as the number of pro-democracy protesters killed by security forces rose to 500.

A British man is missing after leaving a Mozambique hotel that came under fierce attack by militants.