Lucy Hargreaves, 22, was asleep on the sofa when three men burst into her home in Walton, Liverpool, on August 3 2005 and fatally injured her.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has also said she plans to introduce a fast-track scheme to tackle the asylum backlog.

The comedian appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, where he described his first stand-up gig at a Mexican restaurant in South Norwood.

Rescue teams have found a body inside a section of a copper mine in Chile that collapsed two days earlier during a moderate earthquake, the mine’s director said on Saturday.

Negotiators looking to secure the world’s first treaty to combat plastic pollution are under pressure to secure an ambitious deal this week after previous talks ended without consensus. Countries will ...

Kemi Badenoch has said Rachel Reeves is making “even bigger mistakes” than Liz Truss. The Tory leader hit out at the Chancellor and the Prime Minister for their economic decisions as she drew a ...

The Home Secretary plans to introduce a fast-track scheme to tackle the asylum backlog that aims to turn around decisions within weeks. Yvette Cooper said Labour was planning a “major overhaul” of the ...