A 20-year-old man who threw a teenage girl over a stairwell balcony after an argument at a "pre-trial party" has been sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Boris Johnson has been pictured beaming as he arrived back in Downing Street from hospital after the birth of his baby son .

Global health experts are investigating reports of a rare but serious illness affecting children and its links to coronavirus after UK medics raised the alarm.

A goose has taken advantage of the coronavirus lockdown to nest in one of the north of England's busiest transport hubs.

Londoners were today told not to gather on Westminster Bridge to take part in tonight's Clap for Carers as the Met warned it was "not acceptable" to put safety at risk by flouting lockdown rules.

Shoppers will have to get used to "supermarket-style" queuing and till screens as well as innovations such as video-conferencing advice from ­assistants when high-street stores start to reopen after the end of the lockdown.

Boris Johnson has hailed Captain Tom Moore a "point of light" in the lives of the nation as he led tributes to the war veteran on his 100th birthday.

One of London's most popular celebrity nightspots will be allowed to open a Parisian-style pavement café despite dozens of complaints from neighbours.

Donald Trump has announced that the federal government will not be extending its coronavirus social distancing guidelines after they expire on Thursday.

Not for one Spanish TV anchor, whose video-chat blunder might have cost him his relationship.

A fifth of high street stores plan to stay closed permanently after the coronavirus lockdown lifts, retail leaders have told MPs.

A man has been jailed for spitting at a London bus driver and a police officer.

Police were called to a funeral home in New York after a bad smell coming from the street outside turned out to be from hundreds of bodies kept inside trucks.

A woman has jailed after she stole a doctor's identity card while he was in a pharmacy.

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.

A Walmart store has been temporarily shut down after 23 staff members tested positive for coronavirus after an inspection by local public health officials.

More than 1,000 British Airways pilots are set to lose their jobs as part of major redundancy plans announced by the airline, it is reported.

Londoners again gathered on Westminster Bridge to take part in Thursday's Clap for Carers despite police warning it was "not acceptable" to put safety at risk by flouting lockdown rules.

The appeal by NHS fundraiser Colonel Tom Moore topped £32 million as it closed at midnight.

"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.

Ten fire engines and around 70 firefighters have been battling a blaze in a block of flats in south east London.

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US audiences were treated to an impromptu ray of sunshine when an adorable golden retriever interrupted a live weather forecast.

Armed protesters descended on Michigan's state capitol building last night as they called for an end to the state's coronavirus lockdown restrictions.

An actress who made her big-screen debut as a teenager alongside Daniel Craig has been ordered to wear an electronic tag after being caught "interfering" with parked cars.

The Court of Appeal has upheld the conviction of school teacher Gordon Park for the "lady in the lake" murder of his wife following a posthumous challenge.

People from black and ethnic minorities appear to be at greater risk of dying from coronavirus, according to a study of patients at three London hospitals.

An NHS hospital doctor was followed for almost five miles by a man before being attacked in the street.

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.

Tower Bridge was cordoned off at around midday on Friday while police investigated reports of a "suspicious package."

Forest rangers snare bear in the Dolomites in a move that also unleashes row over animal rights

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

41-year-old Temisan Oritsejafor facing 'significant prison term' over 'vulgar' incident, West Midlands Police force says

Elderly residents of a Staffordshire street woke up this morning to find their gardens had been ransacked by vandals.

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

Boris Johnson is preparing a plan for the UK's escape from lockdown after declaring the nation has "past the peak" of its coronavirus outbreak.

A man has been charged with murder after the death of an 88-year-old widower in a quiet English village.

Commercial space trips are a step closer to becoming reality after Virgin Galactic's spaceship took a glide and landed safely in the New Mexico desert.

A senior World Health Organisation (WHO) official has insisted Covid-19 is "natural in origin" after Donald Trump claimed to have seen evidence that the outbreak originated from a laboratory in China.

An experimental medicine that appears to help coronavirus patients recover faster has been given the green light for emergency use by US regulators.

Questions have been raised over how coronavirus tests were counted after Health Secretary Matt Hancock hailed the "incredible achievement" of the Government in hitting its 100,000-a-day target.

Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein visited Harvard University dozens of times after his conviction - and was even given his own office.

A man has been jailed for more than two years after dragging a woman along a road with his car before knocking over her boyfriend.

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

Neighbours have described their shock after a boy suffered "possibly life-changing" injuries after being shot in east London.

Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds have named their baby boy Wilfred Lawrie Nicholas Johnson.