Celebrities and fashion designers have paid tribute to former Vogue creative director Andre Leon Talley who has died aged 73.

The Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics should not be a "sportswashing" opportunity for China, Amnesty International has warned, saying that "the international community must not become complicit in a propaganda exercise".

A woman has been rescued after her car smashed through the ice of a Canadian river.

British Armed Forces personnel who helped evacuate more than 15,000 people from Afghanistan last August will receive a medal recognising their work, the Ministry of Defence has announced.

The rapid spread of the Omicron variant, combined with the roll-out of up to 20 billion doses of vaccine, means the COVID-19 pandemic could be over this year, according to one of the world's leading public health experts.

A British man living on Tonga said the sounds of the volcano erupting was "like bombs going off around the place".

Washington and the Kremlin's top diplomats are set to meet for talks in Switzerland on Friday, stepping up efforts as tensions escalate amid fears of a possible invasion of Ukraine by Russia.

A man in his 30s has been arrested in connection with the murder of Ashling Murphy.

Twelve of the UK's most wanted fugitives believed to be hiding in Spain are the subject of a new appeal - over crimes including drive-by shootings and major drug dealing operations.

A battered army ambulance pulls up in the freezing, snowy yard of a long-since abandoned factory in eastern Ukraine that is now the headquarters of the army's 24th battalion.