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After objecting about how their ages were judged when they arrived in the UK, two migrants won a High Court case. The couple claimed to be minors, but social workers at a detention center in Dover, Kent, classified them as adults based on "short" and "biased" assessments. The assessments were "not lawful" in "some respects," according to Mr Justice Henshaw. The judgment has been described as "disappointing" by the Home Office. After hearing evidence at a hearing last year, the judge detailed the case in a written judgement that was published on Wednesday. Because one of the migrants had moved to Coventry after leaving Dover, the migrants filed a lawsuit against Home Secretary Priti Patel and Coventry City Council. Kent County Council is a "interested party" on the list. One of the migrants, a young Kuwaiti male who arrived in Kent aboard a lorry in December 2020, claimed to have been born in June 2004 but was assessed as being

The University of Michigan has agreed to pay $490 million (£360 million) in damages to more than 1,000 largely male former students who claim that sports doctor Robert Anderson sexually abused them. After 15 months of negotiations, lawyers revealed a settlement over allegations dating back to the 1960s. One person expressed his belief that the deal will offer "justice and healing." Anderson, who died in 2008, was accused of abusing patients during routine medical exams. Anderson was dead, and none of his alleged crimes came inside the state's six-year statute of limitations, according to a police probe initiated in 2018. In 2020, Mark Schlissel, the president of the University of Michigan, apologized on behalf of the university to anyone who had been hurt by the doctor. An independent assessment commissioned by the university last year revealed that employees had missed numerous opportunities to halt Anderson throughout his tenure there, which spanned from 1966 to 2003. A

'US Vice President Joe Biden believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin will "go in" on Ukraine, but that he does not want a "full-blown conflict." Mr Putin would pay a "severe and dear price" for invading, he said at a news conference, but a minor incursion would be regarded differently. Later, the White House stated that any military move by Russia will be greeted with a rapid and strong retaliation from the West. Although Russia has 100,000 troops along the border, it denies plans to invade. President Putin has made a number of requests to the West, including that Ukraine be denied membership in Nato and that the defence alliance cease military operations in Eastern Europe. The West and Russia have yet to achieve an agreement, with some of Moscow's requests being dismissed as non-starters. On Friday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Geneva, after warning that Russia could strike Uk

Conservative MPs are beginning to "take a step back" and reconsider a leadership challenge against Boris Johnson, according to a minister. Conor Burns, a minister and long-time ally of the Prime Minister, said colleagues had decided to wait for the report on the No 10 lockdown parties. It comes after a tumultuous day in Westminster, which included calls for the Prime Minister to resign and a Tory MP defecting to Labour. No. 10 has stated that the prime minister will battle any threat to his position. Since confessing to attending a garden party hosted by No 10 workers in the Downing Street garden during the May 2020 lockdown, Mr Johnson has faced a barrage of criticism. Six Conservative MPs have publicly expressed their disapproval of the Prime Minister so far, but it is believed that more have sent letters to Sir Graham Brady, head of the backbench 1922 committee, which organizes Tory leadership races. There are rumors that the 54-letter level required to trigger a vote of n

On Tuesday, a day before the site was set to go live, the Biden administration stealthily unveiled its website for Americans to seek free at-home Covid-19 tests. People can order four at-home tests per residential address using the website CovidTests.gov, which is managed by the US Postal Service. Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, said the website was in "beta testing" and was only available in "restricted capacity" until it was officially launched. According to Psaki, the website will go live in the middle of the morning on Wednesday. The site's popularity skyrocketed almost immediately, but it wasn't without its flaws. Some customers complained on social media that they couldn't order tests since the application didn't seem to account for apartment blocks with different households. One Twitter user stated, "I live in an apartment complex, thus it's a bitter race with my neighbors to see who gets those free tests." According

Boris Johnson will try to shore up his sagging authority during prime minister's questions today, despite reports that at least ten Conservative MPs elected in 2019 had submitted letters of no confidence in his leadership this morning. More than 20 Conservatives who gained seats in the previous general election met yesterday to discuss how to settle their worries about Johnson's premiership, which has sparked a growing dissent among the party's newest MPs. After prime minister's questions this afternoon, a number of MPs are planning to submit letters of no confidence, but approximately half of them were so enraged by the government's attempt to quell the rebellion that they submitted theirs in this morning, according to one of the MPs.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has thrown in the towel.  Texas' abortion law has been appealed to the state Supreme Court, extending the state's stringent restrictions. On Monday, a divided panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit agreed with Texas, sending a challenge to the state's privately enforced stringent abortion legislation to the Texas Supreme Court, where it is expected to languish as long as the law remains in existence. On Twitter, University of Texas law professor Steve Vladeck commented, "This judgment now maintains the case in limbo — and abortion after 6 weeks in the nation's second-largest state — a dead-letter, indefinitely." The abortion clinics in Texas who are contesting the law had asked for their case to be referred to a federal district judge in Austin who had previously halted the bill before the conservative 5th Circuit appellate court reversed it. Judge Stephen A. Higginson, a Democ

As a beleaguered Boris Johnson signals to his backbenchers that he is willing to let the UK live with the virus, No 10 is working up measures to take off England's remaining pandemic restrictions as early as March. A senior government source revealed that the government was considering abolishing obligatory self-isolation for positive Covid cases, claiming that keeping the policy in place would be "perverse" in the long run. Guidance might take its place. The legal need to self-isolate, which carries fines of up to £10,000 if broken, is one of six pieces of Covid law set to expire in March, and the government is debating whether any of it is still essential. Giving your address to NHS test and track and listing members of your household are two more clauses that will expire or require renewal. Powers over government funding for sick pay, inquests, and emergency registration of medical workers are all still in place. Most of Plan B will be phased out. Working from home gui

According to her brother, a body has been discovered in the search for a British woman who was swept away by the tsunami in Tonga. Angela Glover died trying to save her dogs, and her family was "devastated," according to Nick Eleini. Her body was discovered by her husband James, who had managed to cling to a tree when the tsunami hit after an undersea volcano erupted, he claimed. "Angela and James enjoyed the Tongan people and loved their life in Tonga," Mr Eleini added. Mr Eleini, speaking outside their mother's home in Hove, said that Angela, 50, was born in Brighton and had lived in Tonga since marrying James. They were "well-loved by locals and ex-pats alike," he claimed, because he ran the Happy Sailor tattoo parlour, which employed and trained Tongans, and she started the Tongan Animal Welfare Society. Mr Eleini said Angela had a "strong love of dogs" and that her organization harbored and treated stray animals before trying to find the

Heavy snow and ice have blanketed areas of the United States and Canada, putting more than 80 million people under weather warnings. In several south-eastern regions, more than 145,000 people are without electricity, and thousands of flights have been canceled. North and South Carolina, as well as Virginia and Georgia, have all proclaimed states of emergency. The National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States predicts more than a foot (30 cm) of snow in certain regions. The NWS cautioned that snow and ice could cause "dangerous travel, power outages, and tree damage." According to the Associated Press news agency, highway patrols reported hundreds of automobile accidents. On Sunday morning, officials in Canada's Ontario province, which shares a border with New York state, issued storm warnings for much of the south. Toronto, the province's capital and largest city, is expected to receive seven inches (20 cm) of snow. According to the FlightAware data tracking web