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Chancellor Rishi Sunak will spend £2bn funding hundreds of thousands of "work placements" to keep young people off the dole in his emergency economic update to MPs on Wednesday.

German engineering company Festo has created robotic birds capable of amazingly realistic flight.

Fernando Alonso is set to return to Formula 1 as Daniel Ricciardo's replacement at Renault for the 2021 season.

Downing Street has resisted calls for Boris Johnson to apologise for claiming some care workers "didn't really follow the procedures" during the coronavirus outbreak.

Campaigner Marie Lyon broke down in tears as she read the report. "At last!" she exclaimed. 

An inquiry into three NHS scandals has found patients came to "avoidable harm" as they were "dismissed" over many years after serious concerns were raised.

The cost of taxpayer subsidies for jobs has climbed above £35bn while the value of business loans underwritten by the government has reached £45bn, the latest figures on the impact of COVID-19 show.

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro says he has tested positive for COVID-19.

Ben Stokes will lead England in a "gesture" of support for the Black Lives Matter movement when international cricket returns on Wednesday, but did not confirm that his players would take a knee.

A dossier linked to former spy Christopher Steele accuses China of seeking to influence elite figures in British politics, business and academia.

The AIG Women's British Open will go ahead without spectators at Royal Troon in August, the R&A have confirmed.

The Metropolitan Police has referred itself to the police watchdog after a stop and search involving athlete Bianca Williams.

Ethnic under-representation in local government is "perpetuating racial inequality and disadvantage" in the UK, according to a report.

Johnny Depp has denied being a "wife beater" and accused his ex-wife Amber Heard of being the abuser in their marriage on the first day of his libel case.

Tom Hanks says he does not have "much respect" for those who do not wear face masks during the coronavirus pandemic.

Six men have been arrested after Dutch police discovered a torture chamber containing a dentist's chair, handcuffs, and tools.

Over the past few months, millions of us have been directly affected by the unprecedented coronavirus support schemes unleashed by the Treasury.

Jurgen Klopp is hopeful Liverpool will be able to field "a team full of Scousers" within the next decade after seeing Trent Alexander-Arnold and Curtis Jones graduate from the academy.

An Australian trucker managed to fight off a highly venomous snake while doing 70mph along a busy road.

Newspaper publisher Reach is to axe 550 jobs, or 12% of its workforce, in an overhaul designed to cut costs by £35m a year.

Regulators have agreed penalties totalling $150m (£119m) with Deutsche Bank for alleged compliance failures in its dealings with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and two other banks.

British Gymnastics have admitted they were wrong for not telling the parents of a child about allegations she was being physically and emotionally abused by her coach.

Donald Trump has moved to officially withdraw the US from the World Health Organisation during the coronavirus pandemic.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has tested positive for coronavirus.

UK shopping visits are still only at half the level of last year and the reopening of pubs and cafes failed to deliver a hoped-for boost, according to industry figures.