Preparations are well under way for the Queen's state funeral with scaffolding being erected, world leaders arriving in London and rehearsals at Westminster Abbey and Windsor Castle.

A man has been detained by police after a witness said he "ran up to the Queen's coffin" in Westminster Hall.

The plans have been honed over years, a strict timetable of procedure for what will be the biggest state funeral and security operation ever held in the UK.

In January 1960 a letter arrived at the White House in Washington. 

The Queen is lying in state in Westminster Hall.

A sombre and solitary silhouette in black opened Paul Costelloe's Spring/Summer '23 catwalk show, one of many designers paying tribute to the Queen at London Fashion Week.

Rows of crosses lined the woodland, enveloped by the unmistakable smell of death.

Vladimir Putin says Russia will do everything it can to bring the Ukraine war to an end "as soon as possible", despite the direction of the conflict swinging against his military in recent days.

Protests have broken out in Iran after a young woman died following her detention by morality police.

A mother charged with drowning her three children at New York's Coney Island beach has been arraigned on murder charges.