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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apple's Jonathan Ive, 44, the Briton described as Steve Jobs' "spiritual partner" who designed the iMac, iPod and iPhone, becomes a Knight Commander in the New Year Honours list. Actress Helena Bonham ...

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 ...

Greece’s prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, has met his country’s eurozone creditors at an emergency summit in Brussels. But a tweet from Malta's PM said he had put forward "no concrete proposals" for a ...