The United Nations says 2,000 Syrians have fled into Lebanon in the last two days amid growing evidence that Assad's regime is committing atrocities, including torture and summary execution, in the ...

Theresa May will face MPs’ questions in the Commons today on her decision to join the US and France in air strikes on Syria. The retaliatory attack, on Saturday, was launched in response to ...

Hospitals across India are nearing breaking point as a new double mutation of the coronavirus triggers a spike in Covid cases. More than 68,000 new Covid infections were recorded on Monday - a sixfold ...

Relations between the two coalition parties have deteriorated further as Lib Dem MP Norman Baker resigns from his post as home office minister with a parting swipe at home secretary Theresa May. Baker ...

The organisers of the London Olympics were forced to apologise on day one of the Games after the South Korean flag was shown ahead of a North Korean women's football match, prompting the upset players ...

Ministers should "exert their collective authority" and rebel against Theresa May's proposed Brexit deal, says ex-Brexit Secretary David Davis. Writing in The Sunday Times, Davis said the PM’s plan is ...

Conservative Chief Whip Julian Smith has highlighted divisions in the Cabinet by telling the BBC that the Government should have admitted after losing its majority in the 2017 election that a softer ...

David Miliband is to leave Parliament and move to the US to work for a charity, stepping down as MP for the safe Labour seat of South Shields. The former foreign secretary, 47, who lost the Labour ...

Chelsea remain top of the Premier League after a weekend on which the top four all won and began to pull away from the chasing pack. Antonio Conte's men won their seventh game in a row against the ...

Bob Marley's family has launched what it calls the first global cannabis brand based on the life and legacy of the Jamaican icon. Marley Natural will begin selling ground cannabis, creams and ...

Social tensions in Britain over measures to curb the coronavirus pandemic are now deeper than those over the decision to leave the European Union, new polling suggests. By contrast, only 33% of people ...

Jeremy Corbyn has been elected as the new Labour leader after just one round of voting, leaving the three other candidates trailing in his wake. He received 59.5 per cent of the vote, and a huge cheer ...