Justice Secretary Michael Gove is expected to launch an attack on the "creaking" two-tiered legal system today, accusing courts of making crime victims "suffer twice". Wealthy people from across the ...

This week’s edition of satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo has sold out at many newsagents and kiosks across France, despite a print run of three million. The issue, which carries a cartoon of ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A farmer has caught on camera the moment he cracked open an "unusually large egg" to find a second, fully-formed egg inside. The man, from Qinhuangdao city, China, told local media one of his chickens ...

MPs will decide today whether the Government should be held in contempt of Parliament for refusing to publish legal advice on Theresa May’s Brexit plans in full. The Guardian says the motion – tabled ...

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 ...

The US last night announced that it is moving a Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (Thaad) anti-missile system to the Pacific island of Guam after North Korea "formally informed" the Pentagon that it ...