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US president Donald Trump has told Colombian counterpart Ivan Duque that aerial spraying to destroy coca crops must resume to sustain the crackdown on drugs.

The UK government will pledge £46 million toward efforts to develop a coronavirus vaccine and a quick-fire rapid results test to check whether someone has the virus, prime minister Boris Johnson has said.

Julian Knight, chair of the Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Committee, has written to the Six Nations Council urging them to keep the iconic annual rugby tournament a free-to-air competition.

Chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier has said that a “good agreement for both sides” is attainable after the opening round of trade deal negotiations with the UK this week, but warned that “serious” differences remain.

The Welsh Conservative party’s assembly group leader, Paul Davies, has promised to "end the assembly gravy train" and "cut the cost politics" if his party wins the Senedd election next May.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has told a conference in California that he will reconsider plans to spend part of the year in Africa following the coronavirus outbreak.

The prime minister visited Mologic lab and promised more spending, as the number of infections in the UK rises to 163

As the Tories hail May, could it be argued that today's Britain is more hers than Johnson's?

Health secretary Matt Hancock's claims have been thrown into some doubt.

Producers of the James Bond film franchise have delayed the release date of the film from April to November in response to the outbreak of coronavirus.

The decision to ban Professor Selina Todd from an event she helped to organise has been reviewed as part of a “no platforming” investigation by Exeter College.

Former mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, has withdrawn from the running to become the US presidential candidate for the Democratic Party ahead of the 2020 elections.

Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, the former UN secretary general and prime minister of Peru, has passed away at the age of 100.

Grayson Perry is the first British visual artist to win the prestigious Erasmus award in over 50 years.