Boris Johnson is facing calls to come to the Commons to explain how he came to attend a lockdown-busting "bring your own booze" party in the Downing Street garden.

A minister has said he "can understand why people are angry" about allegations that Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie were among around 40 people to attend a drinks event in the Downing Street garden during the UK's first national COVID lockdown.

The dispute over Novak Djokovic's visa to enter Australia has been "damaging on all fronts", the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) has said.

Two perjury charges against Ghislaine Maxwell will be dropped if her conviction for aiding Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse is allowed to stand.

People without COVID symptoms but who test positive for the virus on a lateral flow device will no longer need to take a PCR test to confirm their result while they self-isolate.

A teenage mother in New Mexico has been arrested and charged with attempted murder and child abuse after she was captured on CCTV throwing her newborn baby in a dumpster.

A terminally ill man has been given the chance of life after his own diseased heart was replaced by a genetically-modified pig's heart.

One of Britain's largest energy companies has had to apologise after it advised customers to do star jumps, cuddle pets and eat porridge to stay warm in a blog post.

Heathrow Airport has called for all coronavirus testing to be dropped for fully-vaccinated people while revealing that "at least" 600,000 passengers cancelled flights during the key holiday month of December.

Ukraine's military chief has said his forces would defend the country "until the last drop of blood" as he urged people to calm down about threats of a new Russian invasion.