Matt Gaetz withdrew as Donald Trump ‘s nominee for attorney general in a stunning reversal for the president-elect. It followed a new allegation that the embattled Republican had a threesome that involved a minor. The announcement came a day after the House Ethics Committee deadlocked on releasing a report into allegations of sexual misconduct and illegal drug use by Gaetz.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has revealed that his forces carried out a strike with a new medium-range ballistic missile in Ukraine today as a test. In a gloating nationwide TV address, Putin warned that the Kremlin could use the new missiles to hit other countries who have provided Ukraine with weapons capable of striking Russia – such as the UK and US. This comes after the Russian ambassador to the UK declared that Britain is now ‘directly involved’ in the Russia/Ukraine war after Kyiv’s Storm Shadow attack.

Horrifying footage has emerged of what officials in Kyiv suspect were warheads from a Russian intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) or advanced rocket raining down over Ukraine this morning. Security cameras caught the moment several projectiles streaked through the night sky and triggered a series of explosions in the city of Dnipro where the plants of state-owned aerospace and defence manufacturer Yuzmash are located. The ferocity, speed and coordinated nature of the salvos suggested the explosions were caused by MIRVs (multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles).

Bruised Jay Leno got back behind the wheel just days after a horror 60ft fall left him with a broken wrist and sporting an eyepatch. The iconic host, 74, who suffered second degree burns in a car fire in November 2022, revealed he had broken his wrist and been hit in the eye by a ‘bunch of rocks’ on Saturday as he headed to dinner  – just three hours before his show. The former Tonight Show star proved he was well on the road to recovery as he drove his car in LA on Wednesday.

Russia’s ambassador to the UK has declared that Ukraine’s use of Storm Shadow missiles on Russian territory means Britain ‘is now directly involved in this war’. ‘This firing cannot happen without NATO staff, British staff as well,’ Andrei Kelin told Sky News this afternoon – a day after British-made rockets battered a military base in Russia’s Kursk region. His comments came as British and European leaders decried a ‘clear and deeply concerning escalation’ in the Ukraine conflict by Vladimir Putin after Russia’s forces appeared to strike the city of Dnipro with a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) this morning.

A machete attacker has been filmed raining down knife blows on a victim at a London underground station. Edgware Road tube station in Westminster was closed after police and London Ambulance Service were called to reports of a serious assault just before 5pm on November 19. Ambulance crews and an incident response officer attended the scene to find a man had been stabbed.