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The UK has recorded another 1,348 coronavirus-related deaths and 33,552 cases, according to the latest government figures.

Senior doctors have called on England's chief medical officer to halve the gap between the first and second doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine.

Scientists have cast doubt over claims the COVID-19 variant first identified in the UK is more deadly than the original virus.

Tributes have poured in for the "legendary" US talk show host Larry King, who has died just weeks after contracting coronavirus.

The US and UK have condemned the "harsh tactics" used against protesters and journalists in Russia - as more than 2,500 people have reportedly been arrested at rallies in support of the jailed Putin critic Alexei Navalny.

The head of Lebanon's main coronavirus hospital has said the country's health system is close to collapse - with not enough beds, drugs, oxygen, ventilators or staff.

Homes have been flooded and residents left in tears after defence barriers were breached in a town previously devastated by flooding last year.

Vulnerable inpatients who are eligible for a COVID-19 jab are not being vaccinated in at least three hospitals in England.

Detectives investigating the murder of a teenager who was killed in a street attack have arrested a second 14-year-old boy.

The leader of the Welsh Conservatives has resigned after he drank alcohol on the Senedd estate days after a pub alcohol ban came into force.