A "very lethal attack" could happen at Kabul airport in a matter of hours, Armed Forces Minister James Heappey has said.

Preventing Afghanistan from again becoming a haven for terrorists who threaten the United States and its allies was the one enduring positive achievement of the past 20 years of war.

The UK's travel lists are set to be updated later, with European countries considered mostly safe from being added to the red list.

Former England international cricketer Ted Dexter has died aged 86.

A man suspected of contaminating food "with a number of needles" at three supermarkets in west London has been arrested.

Lampedusa is an island that is, at once, blessed and cursed by its own position - a speck on the map, part of Italy, but actually marooned between North Africa and mainland Europe.

A Japanese crime boss issued a sinister warning to a judge after he was sentenced to death for ordering a murder and attacks on citizens.

A major manhunt is under way in Thailand for a former senior police officer who allegedly killed a drugs suspect in custody while trying to extort money from him.

Police have found a man wanted in connection with two murders in Westminster after nearly a week-long search.

A British Army surgeon has told of using his skills as a new father to settle a baby passed over barbed wire at Kabul airport, as an "unexpectedly high number" of children are being handed over to troops.