Three people are missing after entering the River Thames in sweltering temperatures.

Firms like Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple will be scrutinised in a Department of Justice probe.

Searches are continuing for two other swimmers who vanished in different stretches of the river.

Thunderstorms swept across much of the UK on Tuesday night, ahead of possible record-breaking heat this week.

Megan Zahra was awoken by a noise "like a gunshot or an explosion" when the bolt struck her roof.

Russian boxer Maxim Dadashev has died at the age of 28 following injuries suffered in his IBF light-welterweight fight against Subriel Matias.

The teen activist is ridiculed by some French MPs ahead of her speech to parliament.

Tweets published on Sheffield MP Jared O'Mara's account accuse him of "inexcusable contempt".