Two cats in two separate New York City households have tested positive for bird flu, the city health department says.

Health authorities say the threat of infection for people remained low even amid the spread of H5N1 virus among birds and cattle nationally.

The biggest quango in the world is to be scrapped. That is how the government unveiled the move to bring NHS England, which runs much of the health service in the country, back under the control of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has confirmed plans to abolish NHS England, bringing its responsibilities back under direct government control. As reported bySky News, the move aims to reduce bureaucracy,

NHS England, dubbed the "world's largest quango", will be abolished to "cut bureaucracy" and bring management of the health service "back into democratic control", Sir Keir Starmer has said. The Prime Minister said decisions about billions of pounds of taxpayer money should not be taken by an "arms-length" body,