The UK's leading hospitality businesses have committed to hiring 100,000 young people not in education, employment or training (NEET), it has been announced.

Severe drought has been declared in parts of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, East Sussex and West Sussex, the government has said.

A Cornell University professor has said she hopes that conversations after an alleged campus gang rape could mark the start of "a movement for true change".

New York City is to end horse carriage rides through Central Park following the "tragic and preventable" death of a teenager earlier this year.

Author Sally Rooney has said she can no longer sell her books in the UK because of her support for the banned protest group Palestine Action.

The government has commissioned the body that age rates films in the UK to test the feasibility of monitoring online pornography for violent and abusive content.