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Warning: This report contains distressing images of seriously malnourished children.

Boris Johnson's interview this afternoon really ought to have carried more significance than it did given the undoubted gravity of the moment.

Retailers continued their slow recovery during August, as sales volumes increased by 0.8% compared with July, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Britain's economy is "less weak" than previously expected but a recent rise in COVID-19 cases could take its toll on activity, the Bank of England has said.

Yemen is in a "desperate situation" as it stands on the brink of famine and hundreds of thousands of people face starvation, the UN secretary general has warned.

An amateur German football team lost a match 37-0 after they socially distanced from their opponents due to concerns about the coronavirus.

The "distressing" situation in Yemen is a result of choices made by "powerful countries and powerful people", according to a UN official.

Parts of the North West, West Yorkshire and the Midlands have been placed under further localised coronavirus restrictions.

Britain's biggest banks are in talks to set up a new vehicle that would take charge of recovering tens of billions of pounds of COVID-19 debts as lenders seek to avoid a public relations crisis when the emergency loans fall due next year.

Sadiq Khan is calling for the government to extend the business rates holiday for another year as companies say reintroducing the rates would be the "final blow" for those already struggling during the pandemic. 

Amal Clooney has quit her role as the UK’s special envoy on media freedom in protest at the government’s "lamentable" intention to "break international law" with the Internal Market Bill.

The coronavirus transmission rate could now be as high as 1.4 in the UK, official figures show.

Ryanair has blamed European governments for "continuous changes" in travel restrictions, as it announces a 20% cut in October capacity.

Former Hollywood couple Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston have been reunited on screen in a racy read through of 1982 teen movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

People in the US will be banned from downloading TikTok from this Sunday.

As the coronavirus clings on, reasserting itself in countries like UK and the United States, the hopes and fears of politicians, scientists and the rest of humanity centre on a relatively small number of vaccines currently in development.  

The UN Secretary General has told Sky News that goals set five years ago to help tackle global problems such as poverty, inequality and climate change have been "dramatically derailed" by the COVID-19 crisis - as a new film highlighting the biggest issues facing the world today is released.

Just 6% of the UK's population had COVID-19 antibodies at the start of September, the government's scientific advisers have warned.

Rising cases of the common cold could be giving a false picture of the spread of coronavirus among children.

Hundreds of British paratroopers have jumped into Ukraine, alongside soldiers from the army's elite Pathfinder unit, for an exercise close to the border with Crimea.

The Japanese military have been given instructions to record and report sightings of unidentified aerial objects which could pose a potential threat to the country's security.