The UK Government has laid legislation in Parliament to change elements of Universal Credit, with reforms due to take effect in April; it also announced over £3.5 billion of employment support funding by the end of the decade.
Albert Lamond, one of Scotland's last surviving D-Day veterans, has died at 100; he served as an 18-year-old signalman aboard HMS Rowley during the 1944 Normandy landings and later helped evacuate prisoners of war in the Pacific.
Benjamin Karl won the men's parallel giant slalom to claim back-to-back Olympic gold, and Norway's Sander Eitrem set an Olympic record to win the men's 5,000m.
Mike Macdonald credited team bonds, faith and a 'stacking wins' philosophy after the Seattle Seahawks beat the New England Patriots 29-13 to win the Super Bowl.
Iranian security forces have reportedly arrested at least four reformist figures after nationwide protests, and detained Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi has been given an additional prison sentence of more than seven years, officials and media reported.
Nathaniel Dye, a 40-year-old London music teacher diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer in 2023, died on 29 January; he raised more than £37,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support while campaigning for better screening. The government published its National Cancer Plan days after his death, and routine bowel screening age will be lowered to 50 in April.
Carlisle Memorial Church in north Belfast, now in its 150th year, closed in 1980 and is being restored by the Belfast Building Trust with funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Hong Kong's High Court sentenced media tycoon Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison after convicting him of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces under the national security law and of publishing seditious materials.
Some women are choosing Galentine's Day — a celebration of female friendships popularized by a 2010 Parks and Recreation episode — as an alternative to Valentine's Day, arranging events from small coffees and classes to larger parties and retreats.
Researchers at King's College London found that nitazene synthetic opioids can degrade in postmortem blood samples, and modelling using national mortality data suggests some UK deaths linked to these drugs may have been undercounted by up to a third.
