The health secretary's appointment of a close personal friend as an aide would have gone through an "incredibly rigorous" process, a minister has claimed.

Fourteen countries and territories have been added to England's green travel list but some industry bosses have warned the move "fails to go far enough" to help the struggling sector.

Authorities are searching for 99 unaccounted people after part of a 12-storey beachfront building collapsed in a town in Miami.

Surfside is a town of 6,000 people around seven miles north of Miami Beach and, as the name suggests, the beach is the focus of life here.

About £114m of cryptocurrency has been seized by UK police as part of a money-laundering investigation.

More than 160 police officers in the UK have been caught breaching coronavirus restrictions during the pandemic, Sky News can reveal.

People have been given more foreign holiday options with Spain's Balearic islands, Malta and Madeira among the destinations added to the green list in the latest update to the UK's travel traffic light system.

Britney Spears has apologised to fans for not being honest about her feelings over her controversial conservatorship.

Around 600 million quick-result coronavirus tests may have gone unused after only 14% of those handed out were registered with NHS Test and Trace, a public spending watchdog has said.

A judge will today sentence the former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd.