While ultrasound services are normal practice in many countries, software being tested in Uganda will allow a scan without the need for specialists, providing an incentive for pregnant women to visit health services early on

David Blunkett backed calls demanding action on IPP sentences as Labour prepares to announce mass early release of other inmates

The prime minister has hit out at the inheritance left for him by the Conservatives and branded Britain’s prison system “broken”, speaking of his shock at discovering the scale of the crisis

Greenwich Council said it currently had nearly 2,000 families in emergency accommodation

Ed Balls told security minister Dan Jarvis to “stop waffling” as the pair clashed over Labour’s plans to release prisoners early. The security minister appeared on Good Morning Britain on Thursday (11 July) to discuss his party’s ...

The Biden administration is awarding nearly $2 billion in grants to help restart or expand electric vehicle manufacturing and assembly sites in eight states, including the presidential battlegrounds of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia

An athlete from Estonia has made history as the first person to cross Italy’s Strait of Messina on foot, completing a breathtaking 2.4-mile (3.6km) journey along a slackline high above the water on Wednesday (July 10). The walk took Jaan Roose near ...

Yvette Cooper will “take a view in the near future” of whether tougher crossbow laws are needed in the wake of the killings of three women in Hertfordshire on Wednesday (10 July). Security minister Dan Jarvis told Sky News today: “I know that t ...

The grocer said more than 1,800 stores will close at 7.30pm instead of the usual 10pm or 11pm

 

It may take days to fully bring back power after Hurricane Beryl slammed into Texas early Monday

Nearly two and a half centuries after America severed its’ political bonds to the British Empire, President Joe Biden said the United States and the United Kingdom are nonetheless “the best of allies in the whole world” as he met with the new P ...

Government to announce terms which could free more than 20,000 inmates in coming months to manage capacity

Prime minister has admitted that the prison overcrowding crisis needs an urgent plan after being shocked by the real figures

Sir Keir Starmer stepped out of Nato meetings on Wednesday 10 July to watch Harry Kane score a first-half penalty in England’s Euro 2024 semi-final. The Three Lions went 1-0 down to the Netherlands early in the match, before the captain was caught ...

Jens Stoltenberg, the Nato secretary general, has said that Ukraine is getting “closer and closer” to membership. He added, however, that it is too early to say when it may happen, due to the need for consensus of all allies. Member states ...

Joseph W. Newman disappeared in the early 1980s after traveling from New Jersey to Florida

It will pay staff as normal for the whole shift while letting them go home to watch

The grocer said more than 1,800 stores will close at 7.30pm instead of the usual 10pm or 11pm

Prime Minister learns early lesson that official duties can get in the way of supporting the England football team