NEWS

British MPs were quick to lash out after former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee compared US President Donald Trump to Sir Winston Churchill.

French politicians want the UK to help pay for new customs posts at Channel ports after Brexit, which has been criticised by Iain Duncan Smith MP.

Callum Walker, 23, was out with friends in Sutton Coldfield when he was stabbed in his head, chest and hand after altercation in the early hours of 23 December.

American Airlines has apologised after a flight attendant accused two pro basketball players of stealing blankets and then booting them from their flight.

Dutch international Virgil van Dijk will complete a £75m move from Southampton to Liverpool on 1 January after agreeing personal terms and undergoing a medical.

Sainsbury's Taste the Different frozen Aberdeen Angus British Beef Quarter Pounders were recalled after an investigation found a possible link to recent E. coli cases.

Ten Christmas shoppers were injured after a bomb with the equivalent of 200g of TNT ripped through the Perekrestok market in the north west of the city.

A woman has been freed from prison after spending 23 years inside, for a crime she never did. Tyra Patterson was sentenced to prison in 1994 for being an accomplice to murder.

Map shows where the US sends its aid money and how it is used.

The city of Tel Aviv spent a year building a 36m high toy brick tower to honour the memory of an 8-year-old boy who died of cancer in 2014.

Peter Capaldi wrote this heart-warming letter to a young boy who was concerned about Doctor Who's regeneration.

A church was burgled on Christmas Day, losing thousands of pounds worth of silverware, and police think thieves may have carried out the crime after attending midnight mass.

Japanese police say they have arrested a couple whose 33-year-old daughter, Airi Kakimoto, froze to death in a tiny room where she had been confined for more than a decade.

Isis fighters fleeing Iraq and Syria are thought to have headed towards Turkey, the route many British travelled to join the group.

Scott Sears became the youngest person to reach the South Pole solo on Christmas Day, but he is still being described as Andy Murray's brother-in-law.

A divorced father won the right to read his children's WhatsApp messages in a court ruling that sets a precedent favouring parental responsibility over privacy laws in Spain.

A new survey has said one in four Brits admit to stealing items while using self-service tills, resulting in an estimated £3.2bn of theft a year.

Vegan chef Anthony Milan Ross has been accused of shooting dead his wife and two children on Christmas Day in Phoenix, Arizona.

Obama took 17% of the vote, ahead of Donald Trump on 14%, with Pope Francis coming in third on 3%.

NYU student's research reveals how Donald Trump attacked the media nearly one thousand times on Twitter.

The Alexandra pub in Wimbledon launched a search for Mariusz, who left a pay packet "stuffed with cash" in the bar on 21 December.

Tramadol, a powerful opiate painkiller, is illegal in Egypt but available on prescription in the UK. Plummer claimed the pills were for her Egyptian boyfriend who suffered back pain, and she was not aware they were illegal in Egypt.

Gunners are interested in signing Draxler as a replacement for Alexis Sanchez, who is in the final year of his contract at the Emirates Stadium.

Police say Liverpool's Jon Flanagan was released on conditional police bail after incident on 22 December and will appear at Liverpool City Magistrates' Court on Tuesday 2 January.

Stoke will be without three key centre-backs in Ryan Shawcross, Kurt Zouma and Bruno Martins Indi for their final Premier League match of 2017 away to in-form Chelsea.

When trading closed on 26 December 2017, the world's richest 500 billionaires owned around $5.3tn of wealth, compared to $4.4tn at the same time in 2016.

Britain's first gold coin, which was scrapped after a minting blunder almost 800 years ago, is tipped to sell for up to $500,000 at auction.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has revealed when he expects the key trio of Nacho Monreal, Aaron Ramsey and Olivier Giroud to return from injury.

Adam Nicholls and Alexandra Knight both spent Christmas working in children's intensive care wards but spent Boxing Day searching for their missing cat after a callous burglary.