Police in Moscow are investigating after a Russian oil executive became the sixth government-linked oligarch to die in mysterious circumstances since Vladimir Putin gave the order for an invasion ...

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The English band Squid have been “tentatively” classed as “post-punk”, but their debut album is “far weirder than that label suggests”, said Isobel Lewis in The Independent. Between ...

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 ...

Coronavirus has left Britons scared to go outside. And can you blame us? “Basically: I don’t trust big-brained business types who seem to conflate ‘open up the economy’ with ‘let more ...

NHS England is asking hospitals to carry out more video-based consultations with patients in a bid to prevent the spread of the new strain of coronavirus. Meanwhile, the Government is launching a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fears that the US and Russia could embark on a news arms race in outer space are growing, after a US official voiced deep suspicion about Moscow’s pursuit of new space weapons.

Afghan interpreters who served alongside the British army have been granted the right to resettle in the UK.

Fresh protests are expected in the Gaza Strip and other Palestinian territories today, after Israeli troops killed at least 55 people in Gaza yesterday. Today is the 70th anniversary of what ...