Theresa May has ordered her foreign and home secretaries to speak to their US counterparts about Donald Trump’s ban on people from seven predominantly Muslim countries entering the US, as she faced increasing pressure over the issue.

Protests are planned across the UK today in response to US President Donald Trump's travel ban on people from certain countries. Demonstrations are planned to start from 6pm in London, Manchester, Bristol, Brighton, Liverpool, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Swansea. There have also been calls for Theresa May to cancel a state visit to the UK by Mr Trump

Theresa May and Donald Trump have so much in common that a US Congressman has labelled her his “long lost sister”. North Dakota Congressman Kevin Cramer said today that after hearing the Prime Minister’s speech last night, he thought she had a lot of similarities with the new US President.

British Prime Minister Theresa May says she will discuss free trade and the importance of the NATO military alliance when she meets President Donald Trump in Washington on Friday. Ms May is set to become the first foreign leader to meet with the new president

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s aides often cite his appearances at professional wrestling matches as an inspiration for his outsize political speaking style, and his buoyantly belligerent news conference in New York on Wednesday proved he has no plans to betray his brawler’s roots in the service of seeming more presidential.

North Korea’s former deputy ambassador to Britain, who last year became Pyongyang’s highest-profile defector in two decades, said “Kim Jong Un’s days are numbered” and vowed to help bring down the North Korean leader, calling that the only way to resolve the nuclear issue and unify the Korean Peninsula.

Latest official figures show an estimated 4,134 people were forced to sleep outside in 2016, up 16% on the previous year. The number of people sleeping rough in England has risen for the sixth year in a row, according to the latest official figures.

Britain's government warned lawmakers not to try to "thwart the will of the people" after the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Prime Minister Theresa May must seek the approval of Parliament before starting the formal process of leaving the European Union. British business magnate Bernie Ecclestone's reign as boss of Formula 1 is no more, with new owners Liberty Media confirming it is replacing the 86-year-old with American Chase Carey. Ecclestone has been in charge of the racing code for 40 years, leading it through some of the sport's greatest ups and downs and making a name as a divisive character.

If Oscar prognostication is a sport, then nominations morning is the playoff game. And of course, as gratifying as it may be to find that you've accurately predicted the outcomes, it's even more satisfying to decry the injustice of the names that went unnamed and debate the merits of those that made the cut. For all the certainty of nods to Viola Davis and La La Land's left pinky toe, here are all the unexpected decisions the Academy had in store this morning.

Downing Street confirms PM knew about test failure ahead of vote to renew nuclear deterrent. Opposition politicians have accused Theresa May of a cover-up after Downing Street confirmed that she knew about the misfiring of a Trident missile during a test before she called on MPs to renew the nuclear deterrent last year.

Search teams have been working around the clock since Wednesday, when up to 16 feet of snow careened down a mountain and engulfed the Rigopiano Hotel near the resort town of Farindola. Central Italy had been slammed with up to three feet of falling snow when a series of severe earthquakes rocked the region, triggering the avalanche.

Bread, chips and potatoes should be cooked to a golden yellow colour, rather than brown, to reduce our intake of a chemical which could cause cancer, government food scientists are warning. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) recommends carefully following cooking instructions and avoiding browning. However, Cancer Research UK said the link was not proven in humans.

British Prime Minister Theresa May is set to visit US President Donald Trump in Washington on Friday, making her the first foreign leader to meet with the newly inaugurated president. Speaking in a televised interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr, May said she would discuss the countries' future trade relations, the importance of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Syrian conflict. 

A test firing of an unarmed British nuclear Trident missile from a submarine malfunctioned last June, the Sunday Times reported, prompting questions about why Prime Minister Theresa May did not tell parliament ahead of a vote on renewing the submarines. The paper quoted an unnamed senior naval source as saying the missile may have veered off in the wrong direction towards the American mainland when it was fired off the coast of Florida. 

Emergency workers searching an avalanche-crushed hotel in Italy were still holding out hope of finding survivors, following the miraculous rescue of nine others from the rubble. Officials confirmed that 24 guests and workers are still missing after Wednesday's avalanche buried the Rigopiano Hotel in Farindola.

Slovenia, the birthplace of America's next first lady, plans to deploy troops to Latvia, joining NATO efforts to defend the Baltics against a possible Russian threat. The Slovenian government said Thursday it will contribute up to 50 soldiers to a NATO battalion. 

Woody Johnson, the billionaire owner of the New York Jets and a scion of the Johnson & Johnson cosmetics family, will be Donald Trump's ambassador to London, the president-elect has revealed. The announcement was made as a passing remark as the president-elect hailed his new cabinet and senior staff at a luncheon at the Trump Hotel in Washington D.C. 

Americans remain divided over Donald Trump’s inauguration, but regardless of which side you are on, bookmakers are offering some fun for everyone for the big day: a buzzword bingo. In anticipation of his speech, U.K. bookies have put together an inauguration speech special, taking bets on which exact words or phrases the new president will use. And a lot of the words will feel familiar to anyone who’s been following Trump in the media or on Twitter.

The race to be the next president of the European Parliament degenerated into backroom dealmaking ahead of the final votes on Tuesday, with everything from plum positions on committees to the use of Catalan in the chamber being exchanged. 

Gambia said Wednesday its legislators have voted to extend President Yahya Jammeh's term by three months, just hours before his mandate was set to expire. The president-elect has vowed to take office regardless of whether Jammeh leaves. Amid the uncertainty, tourist evacuations began. 

British intelligence wants to beef up its base of female spies and it's looking to this generation of social-media savvy teens to get it there. So, it has dreamed up a contest aimed at schoolgirls aged 13 to 15. Teams of four girls will work together to complete a series of online challenges on cybersecurity over the course of a week. 

Briton Alex Thomson made a late surge to catch race leader Armel Le Cleac’h of France on Wednesday, as both sailors edged close to the finish of the solo round-the-world Vendee Globe race. About 100,000 fans are expected to greet them on Thursday after more than 73 days of racing.

British Prime Minister Theresa May called Tuesday for a clean break from the European Union, indicating that her country plans to leave behind the most essential elements of the bloc.

Top diplomats from Turkey, Britain and Greece joined U.N.-hosted talks on Thursday aiming to reunify long-divided Cyprus, as the negotiators tackle crucial security issues for the east Mediterranean island where tens of thousands of Turkish troops are stationed in the breakaway north.

Overnight Mr Trump’s tweet, in which he referred to Ms Majic’s twitter name of @ivanka, instead of his daughter’s name @IvankaTrump, brought the Brighton council worker to the attention of the President elect’s 20.1 million followers.