More than 70,000 weirs, dams and other river barriers have been mapped across the UK, as conservationists warn they are a “huge problem” for wildlife and pollution..

A gas explosion at a coal mine in China’s northern province of Shanxi has killed at least 90 people, state media reported, after dozens were said to be trapped underground..

Shakira has said she has “no space or time for romance”, adding she feels that she is at the “peak of my career”..

Anxiety linked to social media is driving economic inactivity among young people, according to the former minister tasked with looking at why almost a million are neither working nor learning..

A woman reported that she was subjected to antisemitic abuse on a bus

Parents and children looked on in horror as an acrobat plummeted to the ground when a rope snapped during a high wire act

A man has died following an incident which shut down a seafront road

A man in his 20s was taken to hospital with stab injuries after a stabbing which saw Boundary Road in Hove shut down by Sussex Police officers