Oprah Winfrey cried as she witnessed her best friend Gayle King fly into space on an all-female Blue Origin flight with Katy Perry on Monday, 14 April.

© Blue Origin

Jeff Bezos’s partner joined the crew on trip to space on board his company’s private rocket

© Blue Origin/YouTube/PA Wire

Aston Villa trail 3-1 in their Champions League quarter-final tie with PSG

© PA Wire

The British Army have been brought in to help tackle the rubbish piling up on the streets

© Reuters

As ‘super gonorrhoea’ rises, researchers warn the STI could become ‘impossible’ to treat

© PA Media

Officers are working to establish the cause of the explosion

© Nortinghamshire Police

Oliver said she was too ‘young’ to understand tax at the time and that her parents had never asked if she was paying

© Getty Images

Stay cosy after sundown, with these lanterns, table-top and wall-mounted models

© The Independent

The yellow warning is in place until midday on Wednesday

© PA Wire

Hundreds of workers have been on all-out strike for a month, leading to rubbish piling up on the streets.

© PA Wire

Follow live for the latest UK pre-order updates with our stock checker

© The Independent

Chilling scene caused ‘significant distress’ to witnesses and saw 14 emergency service personnel rush ‘needlessly’ to the scene, police say

© Google Maps

‘The case is, in many respects, an old-school media libel action resurrected into a newly complicated defamation landscape,’ one legal expert said about the new trial

© Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Katy Perry kissed the ground as she landed back on Earth following the all-female Blue Origin flight to space on Monday, 14 April.

© Blue Origin/YouTube/PA Wire

‘I gotta sing in space,’ Perry told followers on Instagram ahead of the launch

© The Independent

Paige Bueckers is ready to move on from college to the WNBA

© ASSOCIATED PRESS

Experts say the ongoing uncertainty around Donald Trump’s tariff policy is forcing firms to put prices up – as Sony announced PS5 price rises.

© AP

The reigning F1 drivers’ champion is third overall in this season’s standings

© AP

© Screenshot

Watch as Katy Perry is launched into space on board an all-female Blue Origin flight on Monday, 14 April.

© X/Blue Origin

Weeds such as dandelions are not just a garden nuisance - they can have health benfits

© Niall Carson/PA Wire

The Take That star speaks about his new series, Gary Barlow’s Food and Wine Tour: Australia

© ITV/Rock Oyster/PA

Social media company Meta says that it will start using publicly available content from European users to train its artificial intelligence models, resuming work put on hold last year after privacy activists raised concerns about data privacy

© Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

© PA

Tickets from £29 and up to 20 per cent off hotel stays with Legoland Windsor promo codes

© Getty

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is visiting the Dominican Republic to pay his respects to the 226 people who died last week when the roof of a legendary nightclub collapsed

© Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

© Getty

The reality star has given her take on the drunken kiss that occurred between Danny Jones and Maura Higgins at the Brit Awards last month

© ITV

Sony has announced a range of price changes after US President Trump announced changes to tariffs

© Getty Images

Anisa Khan faces off against air-conditioning man Dean Franklin in the final of The Apprentice

© BBC/Naked/Ray Burmiston/Bombay Pizzas/The Independent

One researcher said the combination treatment ‘could help to prevent many more heart attacks’

© Getty/iStock

New research suggests the tiny shortcuts – hailed as a hallmark of efficient communication – could undermine relationships

© Getty Images

The Scunthorpe steel plant and other parts of British Steel were bought for a nominal amount.

© PA Wire

Turkey's state-run news agency says judicial officials have rejected an appeal seeking the release of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu from prison pending the outcome of his corruption trial

© Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

The Gobbins Cliff Path, currently closed due to a rockfall, has had at least £5.6 million invested in it over the past decade

© Getty Images

The British rivals will clash more than three decades after their fathers settled their own bitter grudge

© Getty Images

The Oscar-winning director of ‘Ocean’s Eleven’, ‘Out of Sight’ and ‘Magic Mike’ speaks to Adam White about weathering the box office disappointment of his brilliant new film ‘Black Bag’, and his fears for the future – not only when it comes to his career, but Hollywood itself

© Getty

Ryanair has hit out as Aena increasing charges every year

© Getty Images

‘Many of us are far more qualified to understand what real life is actually like,’ AOC cried out to thousands of Democratic supporters Sunday

© Getty Images

Trump’s mumbled explanation for Russia’s ‘horrible’ Sumy bombing is no sign that he’s getting tough on Putin, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley

© AP