A United States politician who has offered Charlie Gard "permanent resident status" in America so he can "get the medical treatment he needs" is shedding more heat than light on a very difficult case, a legal expert has suggested.

An American specialist who has offered to treat Charlie Gard is expected to examine the terminally-ill baby for the first time over the next two days.

Latest: An American doctor has told the UK's High Court he thinks an experimental treatment being suggested for Charlie Gard is worth trying.

The British government has no role to play in the case of terminally ill baby Charlie Gard, the UK's Justice Secretary has said.

International efforts to intervene in the case of Charlie Gard gathered pace as the Vatican's children's hospital offered to take the terminally-ill boy in.

Pope Francis has called for the parents of terminally-ill Charlie Gard to be allowed to "accompany and treat their child until the end".

Charlie Gard's parents have been given more time before their baby son's life support is switched off.

Doctors in London must continue to treat a terminally-ill baby at the centre of a life-support legal battle until midnight on Tuesday, judges in the European Court of Human Rights have said.

A UK couple who want to take their sick baby son to the USA for treatment have lost a Court of Appeal fight.

A High Court judge who decided that a baby at the centre of a life-support treatment fight should be allowed to "die with dignity" has published his ruling on the case.

A couple whose baby son was at the centre of a High Court life-support treatment fight have launched an appeal.

A couple whose baby son was at the centre of a High Court life-support treatment fight have instructed new solicitors as an appeal deadline nears.

The parents of baby Charlie Gard are "devastated" by the British High Court decision to end his life-support and are struggling to understand why the judge had not "at least given Charlie the chance of treatment", their solicitor has said.

A High Court judge is preparing to analyse evidence about a baby boy at the centre of a life support treatment dispute.