A teenage girl and a woman in her 40s have died after getting into difficulty in the water off the Essex coast, police said.

The ex-CEO of Southern Water faces a charge of conspiracy to defraud alongside three other former employees, it can now be reported.

A mid-air brawl involving around 10 passengers forced a Liverpool-bound easyJet plane to return to Tenerife.

The mother of one of the Nottingham attack victims has welcomed a corporate manslaughter investigation into the mental healthcare trust that treated triple killer Valdo Calocane, calling it the "beginning of the reckoning".

A modelling scout linked to Jeffrey Epstein has been found dead at his home in Paris.

Tropical Storm Bertha is due to make landfall in Louisiana late on Wednesday, with forecasters predicting heavy rain and localised flooding.