US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will meet the Queen at Windsor Castle later. The couple will receive a guard of honour and tea during the visit, which comes after they last met during the G7 summit in Cornwall. But this afternoon’s private time with the monarch can be seen as a

Boris Johnson has raised the case of fatal crash victim Harry Dunn with Joe Biden. Confirming the case of Harry Dunn had been raised, a No 10 spokesman said: “The PM raised the tragic Harry Dunn case with President Biden and reiterated that the UK wants to see justice done for the family.” Harry’s mother

Boris Johnson’s wife Carrie and their son Wilfred have been pictured playing on the beach with the US first lady. Mrs Johnson and Dr Jill Biden dipped their feet in the sea in Cornwall, where they also joined their husbands for a walkabout on the eve of a G7 summit. The Johnsons walked hand in

Face to face multi-lateral diplomacy is back. The band is getting back together, but the world has changed since the G7 last met. Our species and our planet face grave threats and the West’s autocratic rivals have prospered and grown more powerful. There is a huge amount at stake for those who want the world led

A lobster diver says he thought he was going to die after getting caught in a humpback whale’s mouth. Michael Packard recalled how he had jumped off his boat near the Cape Cod coast in Massachusetts on Friday morning and was about 45ft down when he “felt this huge bump, and everything went dark”. At

The wife of jailed drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has pleaded guilty to a range of charges after being accused of helping to run his vast empire. Emma Coronel Aispuro faced accusations she aided El Chapo in managing the Sinaloa cartel, assisting his 2015 prison escape and conspiring to distribute illegal drugs. The 31-year-old

Kim Kardashian has explained why she filed for divorce from rapper husband Kanye West. The 40-year-old was speaking to her mother Kris Jenner on the final episode of the family’s reality TV show – Keeping Up With The Kardashians (KUWTK). In scenes filmed in October, she said she had spoken to a therapist and realised

Boris Johnson has described working with US President Joe Biden as a “breath of fresh air” following the pair’s first face-to-face meeting. The prime minister met Donald Trump’s successor in Carbis Bay on Thursday, ahead of this week’s G7 summit at the Cornwall resort. Mr Johnson said the new US administration had “so much they

Boris Johnson has scored an early diplomatic win with the UK becoming the first foreign destination for Joe Biden since he became US president.  But it is more thanks to good timing than the special relationship – a term the prime minister reportedly doesn’t like anyway because he thinks it sounds weak and needy. As

Boris Johnson and Joe Biden will set out their joint vision for a “sustainable global recovery” from the coronavirus pandemic when they meet ahead of the G7 summit in Cornwall. Holding their first face-to-face talks on Thursday, the leaders are expected to agree what has been billed as a new Atlantic Charter – a reference

Joe Biden has arrived in the UK on Air Force One ahead of the G7 summit in Cornwall. His plane touched down at RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk on Wednesday evening, beginning his first overseas trip as US president. A large crowd of US Air Force personnel and their families were waiting for him inside a

Flying insects have forced a plane in the US which was due to carry dozens of reporters covering Joe Biden’s visit to the G7 summit in Cornwall to be grounded. Even the US president wasn’t spared and had to swat away a cicada as he boarded Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland

US travel restrictions for more than 110 countries have been eased – including Japan just ahead of the Olympics. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) new ratings include 61 nations that were lowered from its highest Level 4 that discouraged all travel to recommending travel for fully vaccinated individuals. Among those now listed

President Joe Biden is facing calls to introduce a wealth tax following a report alleging America’s richest executives, including Elon Musk and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, have avoided paying income tax – some over several years. ProPublica, the not-for-profit investigative journalism organisation, said its findings showed the tax bills were especially low when compared with their

A Senate investigation into the US Capitol riots has uncovered a “number of intelligence and security failures” leading up to and on the day violence erupted. On 6 January pro-Trump supporters broke into the Capitol building, vandalised and destroyed property and ransacked offices as Congress met to certify Joe Biden as the 46th President of

Millions of dollars in Bitcoin paid to hackers after the Colonial Pipeline cyber attack have been recovered by the US government. The attack prompted the shutdown of the east coast fuel pipeline last month and a $4.4m (£3.1m) payment was made to Russia-based DarkSide attackers. Officials confirmed on Monday that 63.7 bitcoins, valued at approximately

Six people, including four children, have died in Kentucky after a car being driven the wrong way on a highway hit another vehicle. The driver was heading south in the northbound lanes of the Interstate 75 when she crashed with a car carrying five people in Lexington on Saturday, killing all six involved. A statement

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have said they are “delighted” after the Sussexes announced the birth of their baby daughter – Lilibet “Lili” Diana Mountbatten-Windsor. Prince Harry and Meghan announced that the infant, a first sibling for Archie, was born on Friday in California. Lili is named after her great-grandmother the Queen – who

YouTuber Logan Paul avoided a knockout and managed to drag Floyd Mayweather to the final bell during their boxing match in Miami. Neither man was judged the winner, as per exhibition rules, but Paul emerged with dignity from his bizarre clash against the boxing great. Paul’s only previous boxing match was a loss to fellow

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have welcomed their second child – a baby daughter named Lilibet “Lili” Diana Mountbatten-Windsor. Harry and Meghan announced that the infant, a first sibling for Archie, was born on Friday in California. Lili is named after her great-grandmother the Queen – who was affectionately nicknamed Lilibet by her family

The US Department of Justice has said it will no longer secretly obtain reporters’ records during investigations of leaks of classified information. Last month, President Joe Biden called the policy, which has been criticised by news organisations and press freedom groups, “simply, simply wrong” and pledged not to continue allowing it. Though Mr Biden’s comments

US companies hired nearly a million new workers in May, according to a report. Private payrolls increased by 978,000 jobs last month – the biggest increase since June last year and well above the revised total for April of 654,000. It comes as the US economy continues to reopen, thanks to a largely successful COVID-19

Kim Kardashian broke down in tears in the latest episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians while discussing her divorce from Kanye West. Kardashian cried while telling her sisters Kourtney, Kylie and Kendall that she felt like a failure during her break up with rapper. The 40-year-old filed for divorce from the father of her

There is no evidence that aerial phenomena witnessed by military pilots in recent years are alien spacecraft, according to a US intelligence report. But the report’s unclassified version, expected to be released to Congress by 25 June, is understood to conclude that most of the more than 120 incidents over the past two decades did

Former Nickelodeon TV star Drake Bell has been charged with attempted child endangerment and disseminating matter harmful to children. Bell, whose real first name is Jared, pleaded not guilty to both charges and is scheduled to appear in an Ohio court for a pre-trial hearing on 23 June. According to the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office,

Donald Trump has been suspended from Facebook until at least January 2023 after he “praised people” who took part in violence during the US Capitol riot. The social media giant’s independent oversight board had in May upheld Facebook’s block on the former president. However, the board ruled it was wrong to make the ban indefinite

More coffins of people believed to be victims of the 1921 race massacre in Tulsa have been found, city officials have said. Crews searching Oaklawn Cemetery found five more coffins, bringing the total number discovered at the mass-grave site to 20. The search began last year, with researchers finding at least 12 sets of remains,

F Lee Bailey, one of the most famous defence lawyers of his generation, has died at the age of 87, his former colleague has said. The criminal defence lawyer is best known for representing and helping to acquit OJ Simpson and Dr Sam Sheppard, who were both accused of murdering their wives. He also famously

Two runaway children broke into a Florida house and used an AK-47 in a shootout with sheriff’s deputies. The boy, 12, and girl, 14, found the weapons in a house in Enterprise after running away from the Florida United Methodist Children’s Home. There were four exchanges of gunfire over 35 minutes and Volusia County sheriff’s

Prosecutors have asked a judge to sentence Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer found guilty of murdering George Floyd, to 30 years in prison. In court documents filed on Wednesday, prosecutors cite the trial judge’s ruling last month that there were four aggravating factorsin Floyd‘s murder. But a defence lawyer wants Chauvin to be sentenced