Emergency services urge the public not to jump into unknown waters to cool off in hot weather, after two deaths in two days.

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Police issue river jump warning

The Scottish Parliament has extended emergency restrictions preventing fishing in Dalgety Bay.

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Ban extended at radioactive bay

The government of Quebec unveils an emergency bill in an effort to quell the most sustained student protests in Canadian history.

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Quebec in ‘emergency’ protest law

EasyJet and Belfast International Airport respond to a report by the Air Accident Investigation Branch into an emergency evacuation.

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Report into smoke in cabin flight

The authorities in Georgia have declared a state of emergency and sent troops into the capital, Tbilisi, after severe flooding.

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VIDEO: State of emergency declared in Georgia

The emergency services are preparing to search the scene of a house fire in Inverness where a woman is thought to be missing.

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Woman ‘missing’ after house fire

Emergency helicopters grounded after concerns about possible cracks in rotor blades are to be allowed to fly again.

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Crack fear helicopters’ all clear

RBS confirms it is to repay £163bn of emergency loans, reports a three month loss of £1.4bn and sets aside another £125m for PPI compensation.

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RBS confirms state loan repayment

A Delta Airlines plane has made an emergency landing in New York after an apparent bird strike.

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VIDEO: US emergency landing after bird strike

PRESIDENT OBAMA is fond of saying that there is no silver bullet to bringing down gasoline prices. On Tuesday, however, he went into the silver bullet business. With gas prices high and an election looming, the president announced a very public “crackdown” on “those who manipulate the market for private gain at the expense of millions of working families.” He asked Congress to spend $52 million on more oversight, to allow regulators to set higher capital requirements in oil markets, and to mandate a few other steps. Many of the policies Mr. Obama proposed are fine — technology upgrades at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), for example. Yet the administration can’t offer any satisfying explanation for why they are so necessary as to require emergency congressional action. The only emergency seems to be a mindless election-year war over who’s to blame for sustained high gas prices — a question for which Mr. Obama himself has repeatedly given the most reasonable answer: those shadowy actors called supply and demand. Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: Obama’s gas ‘crackdown’ will do little to lower prices

Click to watch video TMZ and other sources report that Miley Cyrus was rushed to the emergency room on Monday night after wounding herself with a knife while cooking dinner in her Toluca, California, home. Her mother and boyfriend, Liam Hemsworth of “Hunger Games” fame , took her to get the bloody cut stitched up at a nearby emergency room. We've been there, Miley. We've been there. And we have the scars to prove it. Glue the wound, skip the stitches – How pro chefs handle kitchen wounds Deep cuts from the comments – Tales from the kitchen trenches Burn, slice, sear – cooking is a dangerous business – A gory treasury of kitchen injuries Oops, I burned my cleavage – Hot times at the grill

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Deep cut for budding chef Miley Cyrus

A plane bound for the United States is forced to make an emergency landing at Gatwick Airport, leaving 14 people with suspected fractures.

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Jet in Gatwick emergency landing

A passenger has described the scenes onboard a Virgin flight which was forced to make an emergency landing at Gatwick Airport.

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VIDEO: Virgin flight: ‘I could smell fuel’

A passenger has described the scenes onboard a Virgin flight which was forced to make an emergency landing at Gatwick Airport.

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VIDEO: Virgin flight: ‘I could smell fuel’

A loud bang which sparked a deluge of calls to emergency services across a large part of England was a sonic boom from a Typhoon aircraft, the Ministry of Defence says.

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Loud bang was Typhoon sonic boom