Anja Popp , Reporter

At least 42 people have died and dozens are missing in Germany after catastrophic floods in the west of the country.

The billionaire businessman Sir Richard Branson has made it into the edge of space on board his own rocket ship, as the Virgin Atlantic craft made its first fully crewed test flight beyond Earth’s atmosphere.

Ministers are considering plans to allow NHS staff in England to be exempt from self-isolation if they’ve been fully vaccinated, as Covid cases across the country continue to soar – reaching levels last seen in the winter.

New research shows just 25 children and young people in England died from Covid during the first year of the pandemic – that’s 0.005 per cent of all those who had the virus.

It’s feared that hundreds of sudden deaths in Canada may have been caused by the record heatwave there, which has seen temperatures soaring to unprecedented highs.

At every game so far, England players have enjoyed the huge advantage of very large, and very loud home crowds roaring them onto Euro 2020 success.

With high rates of pollution in many of our built-up areas, the government has been trying to encourage city-dwellers out of their cars and onto bikes.

MPs have said they feel “deeply ashamed” of low conviction rates for rape cases in England and Wales, promising sweeping changes to the criminal justice system. But do they go far enough? Anja Popp reports.

Four years after the Grenfell Fire, disabled residents living above ground floor level across England say their lives are still being put at risk because tailored plans aren’t in place to safely evacuate them. The government is currently consulting on whether to make Personal Emergency Evacuation Plans – known as PEEPs – mandatory for buildings…

As countries mark World Ocean Day with pledges to clean up the seas and protect marine life, a groundbreaking scheme is aiming to put a million oysters back out to sea.

Thousands of holidaymakers have been scrambling to get back to the UK from Portugal before new quarantine rules come into force at 04:00 BST on Tuesday.

Scottish football fans who do not have tickets to next week’s Euro 2020 clash with England have been urged not to travel to London, amid concerns about Covid.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has paused part of her roadmap out of Scotland’s Covid crisis as cases of the Indian variant rise.

More than 4,000 new cases of the coronavirus were recorded in the UK today. That’s the highest daily number in almost two months, as cases of the variant first detected in India have been doubling in a week.

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who has just launched a new campaign against independence, arrived at the Palace of Holyroodhouse today.