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Cancer survival in England and Wales has doubled over the past 50 years, with half of patients now living at least 10 years. Melanoma sees 10-year survival above 90 percent, and breast cancer has risen from 42 percent to over 76 percent since 1971, according to BBC.

Yet progress is slow for hard-to-detect cancers. Pancreatic, oesophagus, stomach, and lung cancers all have 10-year survival below 20 percent, with pancreatic under 5 percent.

Experts attribute improvements to earlier detection and better treatments, while the government plans a new strategy to tackle cancers with the poorest outcomes, BBC reported.

The Home Office in England will deploy 10 new live facial recognition vans across seven police forces to help track suspects in serious crimes. The vehicles, shared between Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, Bedfordshire, Surrey, Sussex, Thames Valley and Hampshire, will scan faces in public and match them against a police watchlist, according to BBC.

Ministers say the system has helped make hundreds of arrests in London, but critics warn it risks enabling mass surveillance without proper legal safeguards. A public consultation is under way to set rules for its use, while the government insists it will be applied proportionately and without bias.

Bangladeshi anti-corruption officials testified in court on Wednesday against former British Minister Tulip Siddiq, accused of using her familial connection to deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to obtain state-owned land plots in the South Asian country, Associated Press reported.

Siddiq, who is Hasina’s niece, resigned from her post as an anti-corruption minister in Prime Minister Keir Starmer ’s government in January following reports that she lived in London properties linked to her aunt and was named in an anti-corruption investigation in Bangladesh.

She is being tried together with her mother, Sheikh Rehana, brother, Radwan Mujib, and sister, Azmina. Siddiq has been charged with facilitating their receipt of state land in a township project near the capital, Dhaka. The four were indicted earlier and asked to appear in court, however, the prosecution said they absconded and would be tried in absentia, according to Associated Press.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy travelled to Berlin on Wednesday for a German-hosted virtual meeting with Donald Trump and European leaders, two days before the U.S. president meets Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, Reuters reported.

Europe's leaders are trying to drive home the perils of selling out Kyiv's interests at the first U.S.-Russia summit since 2021.

Trump has said the Alaska talks will be a "feel-out" meeting as he pursues a ceasefire in Moscow's war on Ukraine, having said last week, to consternation in Kyiv and Europe, that any deal would involve "some swapping of territories".