US troops are taking control of Kabul’s international airport, while desperate residents try to flee the city after the Taliban seized Afghanistan. The US military has secured the site... Read more

Afghan students offered scholarships by the UK government to study here from next month have been told they will not now be able to take up their places. Chevening Scholarships enable p... Read more

More than one million people have been told to evacuate their homes amid heavy rainfall in parts of Japan. Highest-level rain warnings have been issued in a number of prefectures, including... Read more

A man suspected of killing five people before turning the gun on himself has been named locally as Jake Davison. Three females and two males were shot in the Keyham area of the city on Thurs... Read more

Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong has been released from a South Korean prison and is now on parole. He served 207 days in jail – just over half the sentence he received after being convicted... Read more

A British man has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of spying for Russia. German federal prosecutors said the man – named only as David S – worked at the British embassy in B... Read more

A court in China has convicted a Canadian businessman of espionage and sentenced him to 11 years in prison. Michael Spavor has been detained since 2018, after being arrested with fellow Cana... Read more

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has resigned after an inquiry found he sexually harassed multiple women and prompted efforts to remove him. “The best way I can help now is if I step asi... Read more

A US woman who alleges she was brought to the UK aged 17 to have sex with the Duke of York has filed a civil case in New York claiming he abused her. Virginia Giuffre, who was an accuser of... Read more

The campaign to free Princess Latifa, the daughter of the ruler of Dubai, has been disbanded after she was pictured in Iceland. The image was posted on Instagram on Monday by a British woman... Read more

The American SpaceX company has stacked the biggest rocket ever constructed. The vehicle’s two segments – an upper-stage called Starship and a booster called Super Heavy –... Read more

Iran’s new president, Ebrahim Raisi, has been sworn into office, following his election victory in June. Mr Raisi, a hardline cleric, succeeds Hassan Rouhani, seen in the West as a rel... Read more

A Turkish social media influencer says she’s being prosecuted in her country for posting “joke” photos inside the world-famous Sex Museum in Amsterdam. Merve Taskin, 23, sh... Read more

The trial of two leading Belarusian opposition figures has begun behind closed doors at a court in Minsk. Protest organiser Maria Kolesnikova and opposition lawyer Maxim Znak were charged la... Read more