President Trump acquitted of impeachment charges

The White House says the result was a "full vindication an exoneration" of President Trump.

Scientists are meeting to choose a new name for the specific coronavirus centred on Wuhan which has killed hundreds in China.

Kirk Douglas, the Hollywood actor best- known for his critically acclaimed 1960s epic 'Spartacus' - which he insisted have on an onscreen credit for a screenwriter blacklisted in the anti- Communist McCarthy era - has died at 103.