Prince Philip, 99, is recovering after undergoing surgery in London for a pre-existing heart condition more than a week ago and has now spent 24 nights in hospital - his longest ever stay.

The famous botanic gardens in London will change display boards for plants such as sugar cane - previously harvested by slaves - to highlight their 'imperial legacy'.

Frankie Bridge discussed her battle with mental illness as she was named the Mental Health Game Changer winner at Glamour's Women Of the Year Awards 2021 on Thursday.

Multi-millionaire hedge fund manager Crispin Odey was today cleared of indecently assaulting a young female banker he had invited to his Chelsea home 23 years ago.

The thieves jacked up the Vauxhall Astra on the driveway of its owner's house in Hurley, north Warwickshire before attacking the catalytic converter with an angle grinder.

Retired banker Charles Pole, 81, discovered a 700-year-old Bishop's Palace under his lawn while having a bungalow built in the garden of his Wiveliscombe, Somerset, home.

Treatment for non-Covid conditions halved in January as the NHS was engulfed by coronavirus patients, figures revealed yesterday. Cancer surgery plummeted to its lowest level in ten years.

William yesterday became the first senior Windsor to address directly the string of allegations made by Harry and Meghan in their explosive Oprah Winfrey interview.

The typical fee in England is set to rise by £78.31 - or 4.3 per cent - next year, the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy found.

Officials are carrying out a record number of tests after millions of primary and secondary pupils in England returned to classrooms for the first time in two months this week.

Police have confirmed an allegation of indecent exposure in South London that Wayne Couzens was arrested over happened just three days before Sarah Everard's disappearance.

In a video interview with independent investigators, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 43, revealed she was threatened with execution and the torture of her family while held prisoner in Iran.

Maurice Amdur, 56, is suing the insurers of driver Ilya Kyrlov after he rear-ended the mystic at Marble Arch roundabout in central London in January 2015.

The Health Secretary last night confirmed the UK has 60 million doses of the Novavax jab on order ahead of its approval by the medicines regulator.

Nurses are set to get a bigger pay rise than the widely-criticised one per cent. Many will actually get a 1.7 per cent increase to their wages this year thanks to a previously agreed Government deal.

British Royal Mail, which said this week that revenues had soared by £900million to £8.6billion in the past year, delivered 496 million parcels in the last three months of 2020 - an all-time high.

There were 2,286 Covid deaths on Wednesday and nearly 70,000 cases in Brazil which, over the last seven days, has ranked as the most deadly and most infectious in the world.

Hopes for travel abroad from May suffered a blow yesterday after the Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford said he opposed the idea.

A new North-South divide threatens to open up on the uptake of electric cars, MPs warned. Ownership figures show four times as many motorists making the switch in the South than in the North.

A 12-year-old boy is being held in police custody on suspicion of assault after a 20-year-old man was stabbed in a residential street (pictured, Marlands Road) in Ilford, East London, on Thursday.

A mystery visitor has been sneaking into the phone box in Hurstbourne Tarrant, Hampshire and leaving what the parish council describes as pornographic material.

Italy and Norway have joined Denmark and a host of other European countries in suspending the use of AstraZeneca's vaccine today over fears it could cause blood clots.

Parents may have breathed a collective sigh of relief when schools reopened this week - but some pupils were not so happy.

Omid Scobie claimed Meghan emailed a royal aide asking if Kensington Palace could 'set the record straight' about allegations she made Kate cry in November 2018.

An over-cautious algorithm used by the NHS in England automatically listed people as obese or black if data was missing, making their risk level higher than it was in reality.

The former Downing Street spin doctor shared the story on Twitter on Thursday morning to his 650,000 followers, but quickly deleted it after he was accused of helping anti-vaxxers.

Amanda Staveley must cover her £20million legal costs and Barclays must pick up their own legal bills of £30million following a High Court battle, a judge has ruled.

The girl was rushed to hospital after being left trapped underneath the fallen branches outside King Henry secondary school in Erith, South London, at around 8am this morning.

Critics have labelled the video, entitled 'A Beacon of Hope: The UK Vaccine Story', a piece of 'expensive government propaganda' after a trailer for the film was unveiled.

The strain, known as P.1, was picked up in three patients in South Gloucestershire who were all close contacts or family members of existing cases in the area. Another case was spotted in Bradford.

Kate Middleton, 39, cut an elegant figure in the pink ensemble today as she visited a school in East London to promote a mental health programme for children alongside Prince William, 38.

The First Minister pulled out of appearing alongside Dr Mohammad Shomali at the the annual Peace and Unity conference in Glasgow in 2019 after his 2016 comments were revealed.

Brexit frontman Nigel Farage told Fox News host Laura Ingraham that 'the whole thing was a fabrication' and defended the British monarchy against claims of racism.

Data from more than 10,000 people who were tested for Covid between February and June 2020 revealed taking one aspirin tablet (75mg) a day led to a 29 per cent lower risk of catching the virus.

Jeremy Hunt said he was informed he had tested positive on Tuesday morning - just as his children were looking forward to going to school.

Historians say the artwork, found inside St Wilfrid's Church in Kelham, Nottinghamshire, is 'of national significance'. The 'wonderful' 18th century markings include dates, initials and coats of arms.

Danyal Hussein, 19, is accused of killing Bibaa Henry, 46, and Nicole Smallman, 27, (pictured) in a frenzied attack in Fryent Gardens, Wembley, in June last year. He denies the charges.

The three children and wife of Rachid Khadla, 56, from Windsor, Berkshire, stood in a witness box at Reading Crown Court and testified to the controlling 'dictatorship' that he forced them to live under.

IT teacher Raymond Beardmore referred to pupils as 'princess' and 'little cherub' while working at Stourport High School in Worcester. A panel found he also used inappropriate physical touch on others.

Wesley Spalding, 32, met the woman through the dating app and sexually assaulted her while she slept, Hull Crown Court heard.

An outstanding east London state school has overtaken Eton College and other top private schools in the fierce competition for Oxbridge offers.

Department of Health data showed England had 61 cases per 100,000 people on March 5, the latest available, but in Scotland it was 62.9 per 100,000. It has sparked calls to relax lockdown earlier.

Some 51 per cent of Scots wanted to stay in the United Kingdom in the research by YouGov excluding those who were not sure - the reverse of the result it had in November.

In one close-knit English town, 12 victims rallied formed a support group to push for action, after police told several of them they were unable to help due to current laws, reports the BBC.

Speaking on BBC R4's The Life Scientific , Dr Mark Spencer of London's Natural History Museum explained brambles can be 'very, very useful' when pinpointing a time frame because of how they grow.

An Italian judge ruled that Michał Herba's sentence should be downgraded from 'kidnapping for extortion purposes' to just kidnapping.

Police investigating reports of women being spied on through bathroom windows at a Hackney estate, east London, have released an image of man they want to identify after he was seen on a Ring doorbell camera.

Rashid Gedel, 20, has been charged with the murder of 22-year-old aspiring lawyer Sven Badzak (pictured) in Kilburn, north-west London, on February 6, Scotland Yard said.

The girl was at home with her mother near the town of Albufeira, Portugal, on Wednesday evening when she got into the pool area unnoticed and fell into the water, before being found unconscious by her father.

Derrick, 87, from Sheffield, has been building model replicas of famous venues from across the globe for years. Some models, such as Tower Bridge and Notre Dame, can take him up to a year to complete.

The gang of professional burglars flew in from Poland and carried out raids on upmarket homes in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire, using walkie talkies to avoid being tracked by mobile signals.

Chantelle Lewis, 25, caught the attention of Greater Manchester Police in June last year. She tested positive for cannabis and was found to be five times the legal drug-driving limit.

Grade I listed Pitt House, on Johnstone Street, is a double fronted Bath townhouse and has some impressive historic credentials. It's been exquisitely restored into a luxurious family home.

ALISON BOSHOFF: Morgan lost his £1 million-a-year job on ITV's Good Morning Britain after Meghan herself complained to ITV over remarks he had after the interview with Oprah.

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The historical rape case of Attorney General Christian Porter has taken on a new twist, after NSW Police revealed a letter sent to the Prime Minister was not sent to them before they closed the case.

Wayne Couzens, 48, was reported to police after allegedly exposing himself at a south London restaurant on February 28. Miss Everard disappeared on March 3 at about 9pm.

The Queen's husband of 73 years - whose 100th birthday is on June 10 - underwent heart surgery last week and remains in the King Edward VII Hospital in London for further recuperation.

NHS England data shows the number of patients urgently referred for the cancer fell by 28 per cent between April 2020 and January of this year - about 52,000 fewer.

The 46-year-old Republican tore into conservative media for becoming distracted by the Palace drama and not holding Democrats to account in the 's***hole' of DC.

The ugly scenes occurred Thursday evening, as dozens of the far-left protesters assembled in the area for a demonstration US against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Sarm Heslop's boyfriend told the US Coast Guard he had woken up in the early hours of Monday to find no trace of her on board the 47ft Siren Song.

The House of Commons could go on tour to Scotland as part of the Government's plan to boost the Union and see off Nicola Sturgeon's independence push, it was claimed today.

Subway passengers in Beijing with high social credit scores will be able to apply for a 'fast pass' that will allow them to skip security checks and get on to trains faster, officials have announced.

A group of starlings put on an impressive display during a murmuration in Kettering, Northamptonshire. Roland James, 40, captured the spectacular moment they formed a bird shape.

Lambeth in south London has the lowest proportion of care home staff take up the vaccine, with just 377 staff given a jab out of a total of 884 eligible staff - an uptake of just 42.6 per cent.

A war has erupted over eleven gumtrees in Adelaide, as the famous Le Curno family fights locals to knock them down for the development of a 28 sub-divided housing estate.

UK GDP fell by almost three per cent in January, reversing a mini-bounce back recorded in December, as the latest national coronavirus lockdown hit the economy hard.

The Trump Administration established Operation Warp Speed last April to facilitate and accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID vaccines.

Lawyers for Cudd - who boasted about breaking down the door of Nancy Pelosi's office - made the demand in a new filing submitted on Thursday.

The clip, which was captured on Thursday morning, shows dozens of migrants standing on an embankment as they wait for boats to bring them across into the United States

The magazine criticised a Daily Mail front page for using the words alongside Harry and Meghan's engagement photo in 2017.

Karen Gibson, who founded The Kingdom Choir - which performed at Harry and Meghan's wedding in May 2018 - told TMZ that she had trouble believing Prince Charles was racist.

Gatherings can take place in any outdoor space, including private gardens, after Nicola Sturgeon announced a 'cautious acceleration' of her roadmap this week.

Prosecutors in Alameda County filed murder charges against 26-year-old Teaunte Bailey (left) on Thursday after Pak Ho (right) died from injuries sustained in an attack two days earlier.

Dr Erik Christensen, Chief Medical Examiner for the Utah Department of Health, urged the public not to jump to conclusions about Kassidi Kurill's death on Thursday.

Sarah Anne Foote, 38, from Ballina NSW, was sentenced in Southport Courthouse after pleading guilty on March 12 to unlawful stalking and entering a house with intent.

Miami is expecting students from 200 colleges to visit in the coming weeks, ignoring the advice of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention telling people not to travel.

Video showed Arna Kimiai, 24, berating driver Subhakar Khadka after he asked her to put on a mask while transporting her and two friends in San Francisco last Saturday.

Officers were searching wasteland in Drogheda as they probe the grisly killing in January last year, which led to other body parts being found in Dublin after his body was dismembered.

John Dean shared his prediction via Twitter on Wednesday amid reports that Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen was meeting with the Manhattan DA for a seventh interview.

Thai premier Prayut Chan-O-Cha was due to get a televised jab this morning but the event was hastily cancelled and replaced by a press conference where health officials announced the delay.

Fauci, Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, said on Thursday that he never imagined the COVID death toll would be so high, but said that signs were encouraging for the end of the pandemic.

10 tropical islands are offering buyers a slice of paradise perfectly positioned near the stunning Queensland coastline with prices starting at less than $1million

Ian Murray said he would step down from the Society of Editors following its reaction to comments made by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex about racism in the media.

New South Wales and south Queensland residents are being warned to prepare for wild thunderstorms in the coming week.

Meghan McCain's husband Ben Domench appeared on Fox Business and claimed Thursday's speech from President Joe Biden was 'full of lies from a senile person.'

The Senate Minority Leader on Thursday attacked the $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill as unnecessary and wasteful, speaking from the Senate floor hours before Biden's speech.

The Fox News host on Thursday doubled down on his views about women in the military, arguing that Biden was more concerned with appearances than fighting capability.

A black kookaburra has been spotted next to a regular-coloured companion on a balcony in Australia.  

A large fire had caused the roof of a house to collapse on Rannock Avenue, Benowa, on Friday afternoon. The blaze erupted at about 12.30pm and took more than hour to get under control.

The 33-year-old has pleaded not guilty to two charges of aggravated sexual assault inflicting actual bodily harm on the then-26-year-old woman.

Gershon Kranczer, 65, was arraigned at Brooklyn Supreme Court on Thursday for allegedly sexually assaulting at least two of his minor female relatives. He fled to Israel in 2010 with his son.

Ryan Martinson, an assistant professor in Chinese Maritime Studies shared the movements of a vessel called Shiyan 3 off the coast of Western Australia.

Lisa Hoffman, 48, was charged on Wednesday with stealing the HIV medications from the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in East Orange, New Jersey, and then selling them for cash.

'It's powerful, William - just maybe NOT on a flag'

ROBERT HARDMAN: The Royal Family do not normally respond to shouty potshots from the media on the basis that a) it only encourages more of the same and b) they are not politicians with an opinion.

Why is it that women still feel unsafe on Britain's streets? And are they right to do so? Here a selection of writers give their views.

Boris Johnson yesterday insisted the Oxford AstraZeneca jab was safe after the EU launched a probe into reports of blood clots in a small number of vaccinated people on the Continent.

Mr Porter, who is on mental health leave, has firmly denied the historical rape allegation and does not recall having discussed it with anyone.

President Joe Biden asked Americans to stay the course fighting the coronavirus while offering hope that life could begin to return to 'normal' later this summer.

Milat murdered seven young backpackers and dumped their bodies in the Belanglo State Forest, south of Sydney, between 1989 and 1992.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie gave his chamber's judiciary committee the green light to open a probe into Cuomo on Thursday amid mounting calls for the governor to resign.

Ali Elmezayen, 45, from California, received the maximum sentence after being found guilty of mail fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering in a life insurance scheme.

President Joe Biden made a special point to defend Asian-Americans - who have become victims of hate crimes throughout the COVID-19 pandemic - during his first primetime televised address.

Wayne Couzens, 48, was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of the kidnap and murder of the marketing executive and unrelated indecent exposure.

Xylia could become eighth storm since September to smash snowfall records when it hits the High Plains this weekend. Cheyenne, Wyoming, is expecting to beat its all-time record of 25.6 inches from Nov 1979

A bare-chested man's attempt to flee police from outside a hotel in Byron Bay was cut short after a by-stander stepped in and tripped the man over. Viewers of the video were not impressed with the trip.

Two women allegedly approached a doctor to before a circumcision on a two-week-old baby girl in Western Australia in January.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, an architect of JobKeeper, said bosses would be discouraged from hiring new staff if the wages subsidy scheme didn't end at the end of this month.

Ms Ford declared there is 'no where' safe for women and that 'misogyny is real' in an expletive-laden post on Thursday night.

Instead of being sold in just one month, a small number of Australian homes are still struggling to find a buyer after more than a year on the market. Bad marketing could be to blame during a boom.

A factory fire in Melbourne's north has been contained after sending thick smoke billowing into the air.

Barbara Murphy had left two lucrative properties worth $16million in Birchgrove in Sydney's inner-west to her elderly brother and sister before she died at the age of 83 in 2015.

Brian Entin, a journalist with NewsNationNow, was reporting on Tuesday near the scene in Minneapolis where George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, was arrested by Derek Chauvin and three other cops.

New Zealand Police believe champion Kiwi boxer Joseph Parker held connections to an international drug syndicate.

If the hand-sized slug was to establish itself it could be a risk to more than 500 plant species, the Department of Agriculture says.

Senator Reynolds, who is on stress leave, released a statement apologising for the comment which she made in earshot of her staff.

First bloke Clarke Gayford jumped the gun on the prime minister, tweeting the government's decision four hours before Ms Ardern's scheduled press conference.

Nicola Gilio fought with ice addict Anthony Sampieri who raped a seven-year-old girl in the toilets of a dance studio in Kogarah, in Sydney's south in November 2018.

The House Administration Committee will consider the merits of an appeal from Democrat Rita Hart after she lost to Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks by a less than 1% margin.

Five dingoes have attacked residents and pet animals in Hawks Nest on the Mid-North Coast of New South Wales as the wild dogs become increasingly territorial, council officials said.

It's the haunting conversation every parent should read - the moment a stranger lured a 12-year-old Sydney girl alone from a park and into his car so he could drug and rape her.

A 'psychotic' truck driver who had been on a drug bender for days before causing a fatal crash which killed four police officers deserves sympathy when it comes to his sentence, a court has heard.

Taataa Tafa, 21, is one of 11 people charged with murdering the 15-year-old at Brimbank Shopping Centre in June 2020.

The health minister and former nurse claimed she would pay medical professionals millions 'if it was up to me' amid a furious response to the controversial proposal.

The four-storey hotel is to be located next to Brewdog's brewing facility and taproom in Murarrie, Brisbane, and will open in 2022.

Priti Patel has said the arrest of serving police officer Wayne Couzens, 48, in connection with the disappearance of Sarah Everard, 33, in Clapham last week is 'deeply disturbing'.

James Robert Davis, 40, who has documented his polyamorous lifestyle online, was arrested after Australian Federal Police raided his home in Armidale in northern New South Wales on Thursday.

Store owner Pam Overstreet in Avondale, Missouri, stood strong and refused to empty her cash register for a masked man who pointed a handgun at her.

Heather Locklear was spotted looking happy and relaxed as went shopping with a friend in the San Fernando Valley on Monday.

'Reclaim These Streets' said the Met initially responded positively to the plans, telling organisers they were 'developing a local policing plan' to allow it to go ahead.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit Thursday against the City of Austin and Travis County for not lifting coronavirus mask mandates after an order to do so by Gov. Greg Abbott

An insurance manager's assistant who used her boss's corporate credit card to steal $165,000 which she splurged on business class trips and group dinners will not spend a day behind bars. 

Incredible footage taken in Dawesville, Mandurah in Perth's south shows two kangaroos sizing up one another before attacking.

Sydney woman Jessica Camilleri was found guilty of manslaughter by a jury after two forensic psychiatrists told the trial she was suffering from substantial impairment of the mind.

Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has pushed back against widespread criticism of the federal government's tourism package.

Trial data from the UK shows the Novavax stops 96 per cent of infections and all serious illness and death from the original version of coronavirus.

A man has been arrested by police following a dramatic boat chase off the NSW coast, with officers allegedly uncovering 200 kilograms of cocaine in his vessel.

Crews arrived at the scene to find Makedonia Furniture in Preston engulfed in flames after a fire broke out in the roof of the store in Melbourne's north, which has spread to a popular pub next door.

TOM LEONARD: After 18 hours of surgery, there was silence in the blood-drenched theatre as two exhausted medical teams waited for the patient, a male macaque monkey, to wake up.

Clayton Alexander McCoy, 30, was investigated by ATF agents and arrested Wednesday after he allegedly tried to kill his rival in a romantic love triangle with a pipe bomb in Manchester, Maryland.

Jones was a data analyst for Florida's Department of Health but was fired in May 2020. The state said she was fired for insubordination for accessing the data system and changing numbers.

In South Australia, organisers have axed three major suburban dawn services in Adelaide after revealing they cannot afford the cost of complying with Covid-19 rules.

A very famous senator looks almost unrecognisable in a black and white photo she shared that had been taken more than two decades ago.

Sarah Everard's family have paid tribute to their 'strong and principled,' daughter and sister as serving police officer and suspect Wayne Couzens remains in custody.

'Deluxe, delightfully different' 1964 pad - once a raffle prize - grooves onto Brisbane's real estate listings for the first time in 40 years - but it'll cost a lot more 'bread' than its original value.

The report alleged a person suspected to be in Queensland was engaging in sexualised online chats with children located in the Philippines via Facebook.

The men will front a Brisbane court on Friday charged with drug trafficking.

More than 30 men are currently facing charges over their alleged involvement in the 'barbaric' cockfighting ring in Sydney's south-west.