Captain Tom Moore was today treated to a special World War Two RAF flypast to mark his 100th birthday.

The 100-year-old war veteran received a total of 140,000 birthday cards

Boris Johnson has thanked the NHS for saving his life and delivering his new son into the world just one day ago.

"He pushed one of the police officers on the ground and I think he was about to lunge at another one of the police with the knife, that's what it looked like to me.

She's perhaps best known to the internet as the woman who wore a face of mild disbelief when US President Donald Trump discussed disinfectant as a possible treatment for coronavirus.

For his critics, he has failed to show leadership at a time of crisis, instead looking for cheap attacks on the media and his opponents.

A man and a teenage boy have been stabbed in east London, amid a spate of knife crime in the capital in recent weeks.

Joe Biden has denied sexually assaulting his former staffer 27 years ago.

Elon Musk caused shares in his company Tesla to drop more than 11 per cent after tweeting that the price is "too high".

Princess Charlotte's fifth birthday has been marked by the release of photographs showing the young royal helping to load a van with food and delivering meals for those in need.

A new photograph of Princess Charlotte has been released by Kensington Palace to mark her fifth birthday.

Two teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a young NHS worker was stabbed to death in east London.

Gay and bisexual men have reportedly been told they cannot donate their plasma to coronavirus trials at a London hospital.

Two teenagers have been charged with the murder of NHS worker David Gomoh in east London.

A new biography of Harry and Meghan will "go beyond the headlines" and "reveal unknown details" of the couple's life together.

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The wife of former Premier League footballer Kevin Phillips has been released without charge after being arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following a stabbing.

A man has been jailed after he viciously bit down on an officer's finger in a "sustained attack" to avoid being arrested.

China has launched a newly designed spacecraft as part of its ambitious plan to build an orbiting space station.

Two 20-year-old men were arrested on suspicion of public order offences

A woman has been arrested for suspected murder after a reported stabbing outside a shop in South Wales left an elderly man dead and several others injured.

A man has been found dead after suffering suspected stab wounds in west London.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will today celebrate the first birthday of their son Archie while under lockdown in the US.

Doctors at the London hospital at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak today told how they rapidly came up with innovative solutions when it ran out of vital life-saving equipment.

Border officials in Sweden found a huge stash of weapons when they stopped a "zombie hunter" vehicle trying to enter to country from Germany.

Police have cordoned off a busy road in south east London after a double stabbing in broad daylight.

A family friend described Mr Rees as a 'pillar of the community'

Earth's closest black hole has been discovered by astronomers and it is big enough to swallow the whole of Washington DC.

A father-of-two who spent 19 days in an induced coma in hospital has made an "incredible" recovery from coronavirus in time to celebrate his son's second birthday.

Key workers in the frontline battle against coronavirus should be paid a real living wage, the Archbishop of York has told the Lords.

The mundanity of coronavirus lockdown life is being celebrated in a photography exhibition to raise money for frontline workers.

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Londoners who lived through World War II have hailed the "heroes" behind the emergency food operation helping people in the capital get through the current crisis.

Legal proceedings have reportedly been launched against the Duke of York over an unpaid bill relating to a Swiss chalet.

Tara Reade, the woman who has accused US Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden of assault, will be legally represented by a donor for President Donald Trump.

In Carpathia, Irina Georgescu shines a light on the richness of Romanian food culture

The 'Biospherians' in Biosphere 2 tried to recreate in miniature everything needed to survive on Earth

'I was thinking two weeks of quarantine and then things would go back to normal, but we realized pretty quickly that was not the case'

NPR's reporter in Nairobi finds his parents connecting with his kids through TikTok. Formerly the realm of Gen Z, the app's now a family board game where Grandma and Grandpa reveal their silly selves.

The company has agreed to launch a new internal data security program and will take other steps to combat hacker disruptions.

The travel writer Pico Iyer has known Tokyo - Guardian readers' favourite non-European city - for decades but is still captivated by its curiosities and contradictions

It makes perfect sense that Tokyo is Guardian readers' favourite overseas city. Now that Shanghai looks in parts like Beverly Hills and Delhi is lighting up with Thai restaurants, there are few cities on the planet that are less western than Tokyo – even if it's not necessarily a part of any east that you might recognise. The abiding allure of Japan's huge network of tiny details is that, like something in a Salman Rushdie novel, it seems to blur all notions of high and low, east and west, old and new into one state-of-the-art global amusement park that is wildly fresh and novel in its best incarnations, and at least zany in its worst.

I've lived at a safe distance from Japan's capital for 23 years now, in Kyoto and Nara, three or four hours away by train and several centuries away in terms of their antique pasts. But if I were going to Tokyo tomorrow, I would, on arrival, hold off on the "maid cafes" in the nerds' electronic hive of Akihabara, on the Hysteric Glamour fashions around Harajuku, even on the gleaming shops of the Ginza that have long made Tokyo seem an early visitor from the 23rd century. Instead I'd begin by looking for the old.

The 5,100 sq km behemoth which broke away from Antarctica in 2017 drops its own large chunk of ice.