A group of eight former rugby union players - including World Cup winner Steve Thompson - are claiming the sport has left them with brain damage.

Former Wales flanker Alix Popham tells BBC Sport about his early onset dementia, and the impact of 100,000 sub-concussions, on his life.

William Shakespeare was the second to receive the Covid-19 jab - and there was no shortage of puns.

The UK will drop plans to override the Brexit divorce deal, removing a potential obstacle to a trade deal.

Fourteen people are on trial but three more are being tried in absentia for the January 2015 murders.

American regulators are yet to approve the vaccine, despite the UK pushing ahead with mass rollout.

Kubrat Pulev says he will upset Anthony Joshua on Saturday and step in to face Tyson Fury in 2021.

Lewis Hamilton says he is trying to get in shape to return for the final Grand Prix of the season after contracting coronavirus.

Patients and health workers are excited to be among the first to get the Covid vaccine.

Jhon Jairo Vasquez rescues and rehabilitates primates who have fallen victim to hunters.

The peer-reviewed work in the Lancet medical journal confirms the vaccine is 'safe and protects'.

The team was reportedly trying to visit a refugee camp in Tigray when it came under fire.

The animals at Barcelona Zoo are thought to have been in contact with an asymptomatic staff member.

Vaccinations in the United States could begin in third or fourth week in December, says Dr Fauci.

The price and the handbag-style carrying case have raised eyebrows online.

An exiled Saudi spy accuses Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of trying to have him assassinated.

The electric carmaker has been clearing forest to make way for a 'Gigafactory' close to Berlin.

A conflict monitor says an engine, akin to those used in V-1 flying bombs, was found in Iraq in 2017.

PM Mette Frederiksen says "we failed" the 22 Inuit children removed for a social experiment in 1951.

The RAF releases footage from its reconnaissance flight over the giant Antarctic berg known as A68a.

Major League Soccer announces it has lost almost $1bn (£750m) in revenue during 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.