Tiger Woods suffered "multiple open fractures" to his right leg in a serious car crash in Los Angeles, according to a surgeon at the hospital treating him.

Tiger Woods' car crash is the latest major event in a career that has seen glittering sporting highs as well as painful personal lows. 

The prime minister has announced an extra £400m to help children in England catch up on lost learning caused by the coronavirus pandemic, which will include asking secondary schools to run classes in the summer holidays.

China, Russia and India have been accused of engaging in "vaccine diplomacy" as they cherry-pick nations to give their COVID-19 vaccines to in order to bolster their influence.

Home smear tests will be trialled by thousands of women in a bid to tackle cervical cancer. 

The stamp duty holiday could be extended by three months, according to a media report. 

US police officers who were filmed putting a "spit hood" on an unarmed black man and restrained him until he stopped breathing will not be charged over his death, officials have said.

A woman in her early 30s - who has COVID-19 and remains in an induced coma a month after giving birth to a son - should be allowed to die against the wishes of her family, a judge has decided.

John Worboys, the serial sex attacker known as the black cab rapist, is appealing his life sentences for drugging lone female passengers in order to sexually assault them.

More than one million masks issued to NHS workers may not meet safety standards, it has been revealed.