Storm Arwen has battered parts of the UK with gusts of almost 100mph hitting some areas.

Vaccine manufacturers have expressed confidence that they will be able to rapidly adapt their jabs if the Omicron variant spreads.

The cost of quarantine for Britons returning from South Africa is setting some back "a year" financially, as people race back to avoid the costs.

The first victim of Wednesday's tragedy in the Channel has been named as Mariam Nouri Hamadameen, a 24-year-old Kurdish woman from northern Iraq.

Police investigating the murder of a 12-year-old girl in Liverpool city centre are going to review hundreds of hours of CCTV in an attempt to find out what happened.

Vets and farmers have made the "soul-destroying" move of carrying out abortion procedures on pigs because they have "run out of alternatives".

An Afghan woman who achieved international recognition after a striking photograph of her was featured on the cover of National Geographic is starting a new life in Italy.

Richard Madeley is "gutted" that he cannot return to I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! - but says he feels "fit as a fiddle".

Stephen Sondheim - the composer and lyricist behind some of the world's best-known musicals - has died aged 91.

So the new variant has a name, but we've no idea about its reputation.