About 500 passengers have left the Diamond Princess cruise ship at the end of a two-week quarantine that failed to stop the spread of coronavirus among passengers and crew.

Home secretary Priti Patel has conceded in an interview on LBC radio that her parents may not have been admitted to the UK under the immigration rules she is proposing.

The death toll from China's new coronavirus epidemic jumped past 2,000 on Wednesday after 136 more people died, with the number of new cases falling for a second...