The Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics should not be a "sportswashing" opportunity for China, Amnesty International has warned, saying that "the international community must not become complicit in a propaganda exercise".

British Armed Forces personnel who helped evacuate more than 15,000 people from Afghanistan last August will receive a medal recognising their work, the Ministry of Defence has announced.

A woman has been rescued after her car smashed through the ice of a Canadian river.

A legal challenge is to be launched against the mandatory COVID pass policy in Wales.

An advert that shows two girls hanging upside down while eating Dairylea cheese triangles has been banned after people complained it could encourage dangerous behaviour.

Aldi has narrowly beaten its discount rival Lidl to be named the cheapest supermarket of the year, according to an annual survey by Which?

Details have emerged of the movements of the gunman who took four people hostage in a Texas synagogue in the days leading up to his death.

The rapid spread of the Omicron variant, combined with the roll-out of up to 20 billion doses of vaccine, means the COVID-19 pandemic could be over this year, according to one of the world's leading public health experts.

Boris Johnson is preparing to face MPs in the Commons amid claims that support among Tory MPs is "haemorrhaging away" and he is on the brink of being removed from office.

A man has admitted exploiting a victim who was "kept as a slave" in a 6ft shed in Cumbria for 40 years, according to police.