Tory MPs are assessing the fall-out after a "tough night" for Boris Johnson in his first test at the ballot box since being fined for breaking lockdown rules.

The totemic London councils of Wandsworth, Westminster and Barnet, as well as the bellwether council of Southampton, all fell from the Conservatives to Labour.

A consortium led by LA Dodgers part-owner Todd Boehly and backed by Clearlake Capital has signed a purchase agreement to buy Chelsea Football Club.

A war zone is no place for the vulnerable, no place for the sick.

Sinn Fein is braced for a historic victory as votes are counted in the election of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Ukraine's president says he hopes fighters still trapped in a Mariupol steel plant can be saved.

At least 22 people have died, including a pregnant woman and a child, after a powerful explosion at a five-star hotel in the downtown area of Cuba's capital Havana.

Sri Lanka could run out of fuel and food in the next month, according to the former energy minister.

A US judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by Donald Trump challenging his Twitter ban after his account was permanently suspended in the wake of the Capitol riots last year.

The Conservatives face losing their Commons majority if local election results are replicated at a general election, according to a Sky News projection.