The government will not be setting an "arbitrary target" for when lockdown can end despite pressure from some MPs to lift all restrictions by May, the foreign secretary has told Sky News.

Former US president Donald Trump has been found not guilty in his impeachment trial.

NHS staff will begin vaccinating the over-65s and clinically vulnerable from Monday, with more than a million people having already received their invitations to book a jab.

UK scientists are developing a COVID vaccine with an in-built insurance against mutations in the virus.

More than a year after the first COVID-19 infections were reported in the UK, some people who contracted the virus in the early weeks of the pandemic are still struggling with symptoms.

Archaeologists have discovered what could be the oldest-known brewery at one of Egypt's most prominent historic sites.

A group of asylum seekers staying in a hotel in Reading have gone on hunger strike in protest at poor food and lengthy asylum claims.

Boris Johnson is to urge world leaders to unite and work together to defeat the "common foe" of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fed-up Londoners have illuminated a bridge in bright red as part of a Valentine's Day stunt drawing attention to its closure.

Amanda Holden broke lockdown rules by travelling more than 200 miles to see her parents in Cornwall.