The woman has been suspended after a video allegedly showed her performing a sex act before having sex with the inmate in his cell.

The acting president of South Korea has been impeached by parliament, in a move that could deepen the country's constitutional crisis.

More convicts should be sent to open prisons to ease overcrowding, a former Tory Justice Secretary appointed by Labour to overhaul sentencing has said.

More people with should be able to self-refer for lung cancer tests, rather than wait for their GP to ask for them, experts ...

Vladimir Putin has said he is "open to peace talks" with Ukraine in Slovakia "if it comes to that". The Russian president said that Slovakia "would be happy to provide their own country as a platform ...

More than 450 people crossed the English Channel in small boats on Christmas Day, according to Home Office figures.

Houthi rebels in Yemen said Israeli air strikes have targeted the rebel-held capital of Sanaa and the port city of Hodeida ...

An Israeli strike has killed five Palestinian journalists outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip, the Health Ministry said.

Boxing Day shoppers are opting out the High Street and shopping centres - compared with last year, initial footfall data ...

Two women - aged 38 and 24 - and a dog have died after reports of a stabbing in Milton Keynes on Christmas Day.

A man has been charged with the murder of a woman whose body was found nine days after she was reported missing.

Membership of Reform UK has surpassed that of the Conservatives, Nigel Farage's party has said. A digital counter on the ...