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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 ...

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 ...

Crowds in South Africa have spent a second night on the streets in tribute to former president Nelson Mandela, who died on Thursday. People danced and sung in front of his former home in Soweto. World ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...