The Taliban’s notorious former head of religious police has said extreme punishments such as executions and amputations will resume in Afghanistan. Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, who is now in charge of prisons, ...

Britain’s defence minister apologised and suspended one official on Tuesday after his department accidentally revealed the email addresses of more than 250 Afghan interpreters seeking to move to the UK. Ben ...

A third Russian faces charges over his alleged involvement in the 2018 Salisbury poisonings, which left three people critically ill and one dead. Security sources believe Denis Sergeev was the on-the-ground ...

A travel agent, named Maria Silvia scammed Manchester United striker, Cristiano Ronaldo, out of £250,000 (about N140 million) after the football star entrusted her with his credit cards and pin. The 53-year-old ...

A gunman has killed at least eight people at a university in the Russian city of Perm, officials say. The assailant walked on to the campus on Monday morning and started shooting. Students and teachers barricaded ...

Anti-Taliban forces in Afghanistan have asked the international community not to recognise the new government announced by the Islamists on Tuesday. The interim cabinet – which has no women, and consists ...

A US drone strike targeting a suicide bomber ended up killing 10 members of one family, including six children, surviving relatives have told the BBC. The 10 were killed when a car parked at their home was struck by ...

It is unlikely the deadline to evacuate people from Afghanistan will be extended beyond 31 August, the defence secretary has said. Ben Wallace told BBC Breakfast the UK would like more time and “every day we ...

The UN human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, has urged the Taliban to respect the rights of women as well as ethnic and religious minorities. “A fundamental red line will be the Taliban’s treatment of ...

President Joe Biden has declared a major disaster in the southern US state of Tennessee and approved federal funding after devastating floods over the weekend left at least 21 dead, the White House said in a ...

Girls wearing white hijabs and black tunics crammed into classrooms in the western Afghan city of Herat just days after the Taliban’s takeover. As the school opened its doors, the students scurried down corridors ...

An Afghan military plane has crashed in Uzbekistan, the Central Asian country’s defence ministry said on Monday, confirming earlier reports. “The military plane illegally crossed the border of Uzbekistan. An ...

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 Berlin. He allegedly ...

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 who has previously ...

A Canadian citizen has lost his appeal against a death sentence in China for drug smuggling. The court said it upheld Robert Lloyd Schellenberg’s sentence because evidence against him was ...

Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama has summoned the Indonesian Ambassador to Nigeria over the alleged assault on a Nigerian Diplomatic Agent in Jarkarta, Indonesia. Onyeama in a statement in Abuja said that the ...

Haiti’s national police have announced the arrest of the suspected mastermind in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise. A Haitian doctor living in the U.S. state of Florida was arrested, police chief Leon ...

In Scotland, a third attempt is being made to enact legislation legalizing assisted dying. Liam McArthur, a Liberal Democrat MSP, has proposed a Members Bill at Holyrood that, if passed, would allow assisted dying ...

A man accused of shooting dead his girlfriend, murdering their daughter with an axe and stabbing and setting their son alight was allowed to confront the boy in court. During cross-examination, Ronnie Oneal, who is ...

A bystander slapped French President Emmanuel Macron across the face during a trip to southeast France on Tuesday on the second stop of a nationwide tour. Images on social media and broadcast on the BFM news channel ...