Suspected Taliban fighters have fired a rocket into a hospital in Afghanistan, sparking an extensive blaze and destroying Covid-19 vaccines. In northern Afghanistan the Taliban captured the town of Shir Khan Bandar, a dry port on the border with Tajikistan …

Nine Catalan separatists who were serving long prison sentences for their role in a failed 2017 independence bid were released from jail on Wednesday a day after being pardoned by Spain.

Multiple protests, a popular petition, legal action and a small fire have not been enough to stop the statue going up.

Hong Kong's pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily says it will print its last edition on Thursday after a tumultuous year in which it was raided by police and its tycoon owner and other staff were arrested under a new national security law.

Dozens of cases of the new variant, dubbed the ‘Delta plus’ in India, have been discovered in the UK. Public Health England said there have been 41 cases of the new mutant strain – known as AY.1 – found in the country.

A man faces a maximum penalty of life imprisonment under Hong Kong's national security law, which is also seeing the death of pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily.

A fire chief who was one of the first people to help Princess Diana after her fatal car crash in Paris has spoken for the first time about her final moments. Sergeant Xavier Gourmelon told The Daily Mail that when he arrived at the scene in August 1997,

The nine Catalan separatist leaders who were convicted for their role in a failed 2017 bid for the region's independence from Spain have walked out of prison after the central government granted them pardons.

Iranian state media says a sabotage attempt against a building of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation had been foiled, adding that it caused no "loss of life or property damage". There was no confirmation of the report from the Iranian authorities.

Americans consistently believe that poor African Americans are more likely to move up the economic ladder than they actually are, a new