The mother of a teenage gunner with Britain&s Royal Artillery who took her own life said her daughter &should still be here& after a coroner ruled a string of army failings contributed to her death.

A planned news conference after talks between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US president Donald Trump&s Ukraine envoy was cancelled Thursday as political tensions deepened between the two countries over how to end the almost three-year war with Russia.

An executive at the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) told staffers yesterday that about 6,000 employees would be fired, a person familiar with the matter said, in a move that would eliminate roughly 6pc of the tax agency&s workforce.

A prison officer has been jailed for a year after she kissed and sat on the lap of an inmate whom she had been in a relationship with at HMP Five Wells in Northamptonshire.