Jane Deith

The two Russian agents accused of the Salisbury Novichok poisonings in 2018 are now being hunted by the Czech Republic, which says it has ‘clear evidence’ they were linked to an explosion at an arms depot in the country four years earlier.

The government has reassured young people who won’t now be offered the AstraZeneca jab that there will be more than enough alternative ones to go around.

A 21-year-old man with sickle cell disease who rang 999 from his hospital bed after staff failed to recognise the severity of his symptoms, died because he wasn’t given a blood transfusion in time.

At least 50 people have been killed and more than a hundred others injured in Taiwan’s deadliest train crash for decades.

Don’t overdo it and risk all the progress we have made – that is the plea from the prime minister tonight as the latest easing of lockdown restrictions takes effect.

Anti coup protesters have been back on the streets across Myanmar – despite yesterday’s bloodshed when security forces shot more than a hundred people dead.

As well as holding doorstep vigils and lighting candles in Sarah Everard’s memory – women around the country have been sharing their own experiences of sexual harassment and the fear of walking the streets on their own.

Imagine not being able to hold your husband or wife’s hands for nearly a year.

There has been some encouraging early data – showing reduced transmission in people who’ve had the vaccine.

Reports suggest that people could be allowed to meet each other outdoors by Easter.

Scientists at Nasa’s Mission Control could barely contain their excitement as the Perseverance Rover sent back its first colour images of the red planet. 

More than half a million people received their first dose of the Covid vaccine yesterday.

The government’s announcement that it plans to vaccinate all people over 50 by the start of May came as new figures show infection rates falling.

The head teachers’ union has begun legal action against the government in a bid to make ministers reveal why they think it’s safe for schools to re-open on Monday – amid the rapid rise in coronavirus cases.

It comes as scientists at Imperial College Centre for Global Disease Analysis confirmed that the new variant of the virus spreads quicker.