Financial firms that control around 40% of global assets will align themselves to the Paris Agreement 1.5C warming limit, Chancellor Rishi Sunak will say later at critical UN climate talks.

Police who found missing Cleo Smith in a locked house in Australia say they were "shocked" and then "elated" when the four-year-old confirmed: "My name is Cleo."

Boris Johnson will back a bid to save a Conservative former minister from an immediate suspension as part of an overhaul of MPs' standards rules, Sky News understands.

One of Britain's top scientists has quit the government's pandemic advisory body, warning the COVID crisis is "a long way from over" and that the situation in the UK is "concerning".

Children as young as five will be offered coronavirus vaccines in the US, after health officials gave the final sign-off to Pfizer's jab.

An NFL player has been arrested following a car crash in which a woman died after one of the vehicles involved exploded in flames.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing a backlash after he was pictured not wearing a face covering while sitting next to 95-year-old broadcaster Sir David Attenborough at COP26.

Free blood pressure monitors are to be given to more than 200,000 people in a bid to prevent heart attacks and strokes.

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President Joe Biden has lashed out at both his Chinese and Russian counterparts Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin for their failure to turn up to the COP26 climate summit.