U.K. lawmakers have backed a bill to allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales to choose to end their lives in a historic vote in Parliament that takes it a step nearer to becoming law.

The chairperson of an African charity co-founded by Prince Harry has accused him of orchestrating a bullying and harassment campaign to try to force her out.

The World Conker Championships says it's investigating allegations of cheating after this year’s men’s winner was found to have a steel chestnut in his pocket.

An Australian government minister says rapper Ye could be refused a visa due to antisemitic comments if he attempts to visit Australia.

Britain’s interior minister is facing criticism for describing migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats as an “invasion.”.

The British government says it plans to start putting asylum-seekers on one-way flights to Rwanda within weeks.

But the Oxford research was greeted with excitement by U.K. officials under pressure to justify their decision to delay the second dose. Britain has Europe's deadliest coronavirus outbreak, with more than 108,000 deaths, and is in its third national lockdown as authorities try to contain a new, more transmissible virus variant first identified in southeast England. So far 105 cases of the variant have been identified in the U.K., 11 of them in people with no links to overseas travel. Scientists say there's no evidence the South African variant is more serious than the original virus but it may be more contagious. AdThat is a worry as the U.K. races to vaccinate its own population against the virus.

GPs like Dr. Ammara Hughes are crucial to the National Health Service’s plan to expand vaccinations from hospitals and clinics to doctors' offices around the country. But can the NHS deliver an average of more than 2 million shots a week for the next six weeks? The U.K. has recorded nearly 80,000 deaths linked to COVID-19, the deadliest outbreak in Europe and the fifth-highest in the world. David Halley, 83, was overjoyed to get his vaccine at his local GP this week. “I don’t want to get sick and I’ve got family and grandchildren and so on, so it’s important,'' he said.

LONDON – British broadcaster Sky News has taken one of its leading news anchors off the air for six months after she threw a birthday party that violated coronavirus restrictions. Under current restrictions in the British capital, people from different households can't meet indoors. Two reporters who attended the gathering, political editor Beth Rigby and correspondent Inzaman Rashid, will be off-air for three months, Sky News said. Burley, who has been a presenter on Sky News since the channel’s debut in 1989, said she had agreed “to step back from my broadcasting role for a period of reflection. The fact is I was wrong, I made a big mistake, and I am sorry.”

Earlier Saturday British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced England will start a month long lockdown next week. The lockdown announced Saturday by Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to run from Thursday until Dec. 2. Unlike during the U.K.’s first three-month coronavirus lockdown earlier this year, schools, universities, construction sites and manufacturing businesses will stay open. Like other European countries, virus cases in the U.K. began to climb after lockdown measures were eased in the summer and people began to return to workplaces, schools, universities and social life. ___Follow AP’s coronavirus pandemic coverage at http://apnews.com/VirusOutbreak and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak