Cash-strapped Thames Water is again facing down the prospect of being placed in temporary public ownership after the government raised objections to a proposed £10bn rescue by its lenders.

The number of Ebola infections in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is likely far higher than official figures, Oxfam has warned, due to lack of clean water and sanitation.

The sister of murdered MP Jo Cox has warned against people being pushed "towards the extremes", as she marks the 10th anniversary of her death.

Eight people have been killed after a United States Air Force bomber crashed shortly after taking off from an American base, officials have said.

A two-year-old boy was injured when a car crashed into a Cheshire nursery school playground, police said.

The Iran "deal" is a tacit admission of strategic defeat by the Trump administration and of a failure to achieve nearly all of his war aims.