Ayshah Tull , Reporter

Black women are five times more likely to die in childbirth in the UK than white women.

The Australian government has also pledged the equivalent of more than £26m to protect wildlife and restore its damaged habitats.

Iranian backed militias have ordered their supporters to leave the US embassy compound in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

The Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has returned home from his holiday and apologised for going away while bushfires raged across his country.

Nine more people have been killed during clashes in northern India over the country’s controversial new citizenship law – 23 people have now died during the backlash against the law.

More than half a million washing machines made by manufacturer Whirlpool are being recalled because of a fire risk.

A “high-speed rescue mission” has set off to try to recover the bodies of eight people.

They are perhaps the protest movement of the year, grabbing headlines, causing disruption and getting their warnings about climate change into the news.

Prime Minister Imran Khan has called for an inquiry into what happened. 

As police continue to investigate the deaths of 39 people found in a refrigerated trailer in Essex, the Home Secretary has announced extra UK immigration officers will be deployed at the Belgian port of Zeebrugge and at Purfleet in Essex.

As police continue to investigate the deaths of 39 people found in a refrigerated trailer in Essex, the Home Secretary has announced extra UK immigration officers will be deployed at the Belgian port of Zeebrugge and at Purfleet in Essex.

This August, Cyntoia Brown was freed from prison on clemency – and has written a memoir about her extraordinary life.

Some might call it rough justice. When Extinction Rebellion protesters disrupted a London Underground train during this morning’s rush hour – they were dragged into a crowd of angry commuters and punched and kicked. Extinction Rebellion say they will ‘take stock’ over whether to continue further disruption of the transport network.

The US diplomat’s wife, who was involved in a crash which killed a British teenager, has said she would like to meet his family to “express her deepest sympathies and apologies”. 

Families whose lives have been torn apart by knife crime came together today in more than 40 locations across the country.