NHS staff have been called "dirty foreigners" and "monkeys" amid a "noticeable" and "unacceptable" rise in racism from patients, a survey has found.

Dividing lines between victim groups, fears about prisons becoming full again by Christmas, and concerns that these changes will lead to "inevitable mistakes" – probably not the intended outcomes of the prime minister's urgent review on early release, but that's the reality.

People jailed for rape, serious child sex offences and grooming will be excluded from the upcoming early release scheme, the government has announced.

The storm engulfing Gianni Infantino over the World Cup sell-off provides fresh intrigue about an answer he gave me on the eve of the recent tournament.

Two people have died in the US after being affected by the cyclospora outbreak that often causes "explosive diarrhoea".

A man who put deer heads and slaughtered lambs with inverted crosses at churches in the New Forest has been detained under the Mental Health Act.