The UK could face "very high prices" with experts warning household bills could rise to £3,850 this winter due to electricity supply shortages - but the lights will stay on, the National Grid has said.

Senior Labour MP John McDonnell says he supports a general strike and criticised Sir Keir Starmer for sacking a junior minister after he stood on the picket line during yesterday's rail strike.

Veteran actor Bernard Cribbins, who narrated The Wombles and starred in the film adaptation of The Railway Children, has died aged 93, his agent has said.

It's been four months since Sasha Skochilenko, a 32-year-old artist from St Petersburg, printed off some supermarket price tags with scathing descriptions of her army's actions in Ukraine and placed them on the shelves of a local supermarket.

Shell has reported record profits of $11.5bn (£9.4bn) for the second quarter, more than double last year's figure of $5.5bn (£4.5bn).

North Korea is ready to mobilise its nuclear war deterrent "accurately and promptly", leader Kim Jong Un has claimed.

For many of us who grew up in the '80s and '90s, making sure we were plonked in front of the TV ready for 5.35pm every weekday was non-negotiable.

Miners in the African country of Angola have discovered what is thought to be the biggest pink diamond in 300 years.

Seven people have been killed by lightning in northern India, bringing the total death toll to 49 this week.

A British man has been charged with assaulting a fellow passenger and crew members during a flight from London to Los Angeles which had to be diverted to Utah.