Hundreds of foreign prison staff who could have faced deportation and the sack have been offered an emergency extension to their visa in order to stop the prison system collapsing, Sky News understands.

A seaside village has been hit by a second earthquake in a month, with locals reporting windows rattling, rumbling and shaking overnight.

The British government is hoping a change in German law will help stop small boat crossings to the UK.

The £100 cap on contactless card payments is to be lifted – under changes that will allow some shoppers to set their own limits.

Notorious conman Mark Acklom, who posed as a wealthy banker and MI6 agent, has been ordered to pay the victim of a romance scam £125,000 in compensation after a five-year court battle.

Protesters have stormed the headquarters of two major newspapers in Bangladesh, amid widespread unrest following the death of a political activist. 

The delivery of a much delayed and over-budget ferry has been pushed back again, with Ferguson Marine saying it will not now arrive until late next year.

A woman and her lover who plotted to kill her husband so they could continue their affair have both been jailed for 19 years.

TikTok is being threatened with legal action over cuts to its UK online safety teams.

The family of a nine-year-old girl stabbed to death in Weston-super-Mare on Monday have described her as a "beautiful soul".

Australia is set to launch a national gun buyback scheme in response to the Bondi Beach terrorist shootings.

The new leader of the Catholic Church in England and Wales has been appointed by the Pope.

Dozens of butchered geese have been found dumped by the road in rural Norfolk for the second time in 10 days.

Foreign Office data has been compromised by hackers, a minister has confirmed to Sky News, but he said the government is "fairly confident" that no individual data has been accessed.

The suspect in the fatal shooting at Brown University in the US has been found dead.

It is too late to investigate whether Nigel Farage broke election law on spending at the general election, Essex Police has said.

The suspect in the Brown University shooting was found after police received a tip referencing a post on the social media platform Reddit, they have revealed.

Kate Winslet says she never set out to become a director - but after reading her son's first screenplay, she simply "couldn't let it go".

Democrats have shared more pictures from Jeffrey Epstein's estate, hours before the US Justice Department's deadline to release all the files it has on the paedophile financier.

The suspect in the fatal shooting at Brown University in the US has been found dead.