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Snow has fallen in the Sahara desert after temperatures dropped to -3C (27F).

Data on when coronavirus lockdown restrictions can start to be eased will be assessed before mid-February, the prime minister has said.

Conditions in the city of Manaus, deep in the Amazon rainforest where the Brazilian variant of COVID-19 is believed to have originated, are now so bad that people are suffocating in hospital beds without oxygen.

Travel industry sources have told Sky News they expect mandatory hotel quarantine to be introduced imminently, as the government tries to suppress new variants of coronavirus.

Millions of self-assessment taxpayers will be given an extra month to file tax returns after the government recognised the "immense pressure" caused by the pandemic.

The UK is to offer its genomics expertise to help other countries identify new COVID variants, Health Secretary Matt Hancock will announce.

Almost four in five of those aged over 80 have received a first dose of a COVID vaccine, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte intends to resign after losing his majority, his office has said.

Former US president Donald Trump's lawyer is facing a $1.3bn (£952m) lawsuit over election fraud claims.

Students at the University of Exeter have developed an environmentally friendly technique that could help to rebuild coral reefs.

JD Sports Fashion is in talks about a £400m share sale as it eyes further opportunities to expand in a global retail industry rocked by seismic change wrought by the coronavirus pandemic.

The article of impeachment formally charging Donald Trump with inciting insurrection before the deadly attack on the Capitol has been delivered.

Royal Dutch Shell is to buy the owner of the UK's largest electric vehicle charging network as it moves to cover the shift away from fuel-powered cars.

Joe Biden has suggested the US could soon be vaccinating an average of 1.5 million Americans a day - but warned the country's growing COVID death toll could still top 600,000.

When I suggest to the director of The Dig that a film about archaeology isn't usual blockbuster fare, he quite rightly reminds me that "Lara Croft and Indiana Jones were pretty big box office hits".

The number of shoppers heading out to retail destinations across the UK surged by 9% last week, according to research which claimed "lockdown fatigue" as a factor.

A new laser system that may revolutionise the treatment of cancers and help surgeons remove them without damaging healthy tissue, is being developed by scientists.

A prankster pretending to be Piers Morgan managed to fool Donald Trump into thinking he was speaking to the real TV presenter.