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Coronavirus travel rules have been relaxed for those returning to England, allowing fully vaccinated holidaymakers to take cheaper lateral flow tests instead of PCRs.

Holidays have been made a fair bit cheaper just in time for half-term, with PCR tests scrapped for fully vaccinated passengers arriving in England.

The chancellor has announced a series of spending pledges ahead of the autumn budget this week, which include £5bn for health research and innovation and £3bn for education.

A selection of Picasso paintings have fetched more than $100m (£726m) at an auction in Las Vegas.

The recording of a 911 call has revealed the chaos and panic on a film set after a cinematographer was fatally shot by actor Alec Baldwin.

When you think of Australian cultural icons - your head might jump to Kylie, or AC/DC, or even Crocodile Dundee.

A director who was injured when Alec Baldwin fatally shot a crew member with a prop gun says he is "gutted" by her death.

Not many directors excite the film world like Wes Anderson.

Boris Johnson has repeated his call for those eligible to get their COVID-19 booster jabs over the coming weeks, insisting vaccines are the UK's "way through" the pandemic.

The chancellor has announced a series of spending pledges ahead of the autumn budget this week, which include £5bn for health research and innovation and £3bn for education.

Holidays have been made a fair bit cheaper just in time for half-term, with PCR tests scrapped for fully vaccinated passengers arriving in England.

Coronavirus travel rules have been relaxed for those returning to England, allowing fully vaccinated holidaymakers to take cheaper lateral flow tests instead of PCRs.

A shortage of bus drivers in the UK is being caused by better pay being offered to drive HGVs, according to a union.

The removal of dangerous cladding from high-risk buildings is unlikely to be complete until seven-and-a-half years after the Grenfell Tower tragedy, government data suggests.

A notorious Colombian drug kingpin has been arrested in what has been described as the biggest blow to the country's trafficking network since the death of Pablo Escobar.

An Ecuadorian Olympic sprint star who became a national hero at London 2012 has been fatally shot in his home city of Guayanquil, police say.

Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said 10 ambassadors, including those from the US and France, were "persona non grata" after they issued a statement in support of a jailed activist.

The crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, has pledged to make his country carbon neutral by 2060 at a landmark conference in Riyadh.

The first trial of Italy's former interior minister Matteo Salvini, who is charged with kidnapping after he refused to allow a migrant rescue ship dock in Sicily in 2019, has begun.

Thousands of supporters of a banned radical Islamist party have clashed with police in Pakistan for a second day in a row.

The chancellor has announced a series of spending pledges ahead of the autumn budget this week, which include £5bn for health research and innovation and £3bn for education.

The removal of dangerous cladding from high-risk buildings is unlikely to be complete until seven-and-a-half years after the Grenfell Tower tragedy, government data suggests.

A former British spy who wrote a dossier on Donald Trump said he once spent hours with then home secretary Theresa May, briefing her on the Russia threat.

Russia's leaders believe they are "at war" with the UK and its allies but Britain is failing to deter the threat, a former spy who wrote an infamous dossier on Donald Trump has said.

England's regional mayors have welcomed a £6.9bn spending boost for local transport - but they are also being warned of a "massive sting in the tail" to come from Chancellor Rishi Sunak.

A job interview can be a daunting prospect at the best of times.

She may be 95, but it seems the Queen feels too young at heart to accept the main award for "Oldie of the Year".

Giant hailstones bigger than 16cm (6.3 inches) appear to have fallen in Queensland, according to Australia's weather agency.

When Bitcoin launched in January 2009, it was worth pennies.

Britain is to phase out a tax on revenues made by the likes of Facebook, Google and Amazon - which was expected to have raised billions - after global reforms were agreed.

Donald Trump is launching a new social media platform to "stand up to the tyranny of big tech".

The chancellor has announced a series of spending pledges ahead of the autumn budget this week, which include £5bn for health research and innovation and £3bn for education.

When Bitcoin launched in January 2009, it was worth pennies.

The crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, has pledged to make his country carbon neutral by 2060 at a landmark conference in Riyadh.

The recording of a 911 call has revealed the chaos and panic on a film set after a cinematographer was fatally shot by actor Alec Baldwin.

Donald Trump is launching a new social media platform to "stand up to the tyranny of big tech".

The nation is "dilly-dallying into lockdown" and action should be taken now to avoid much tougher COVID restrictions later, a government scientific adviser has warned.