Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has been killed by a US airstrike in Afghanistan, US President Joe Biden has said.

A key force behind the 11 September 2001 attacks on the United States, Ayman al-Zawahiri spent much of the past two decades with a $25m bounty on his head.

British Airways has suspended selling short-haul flights from Heathrow for at least a week - as another European airport announced it was extending a cap on passenger numbers.

Liz Truss has suggested she would "ignore" Nicola Sturgeon if she were to become the next leader of the Conservative Party.

BP has reported a second-quarter profit of £6.9bn ($8.45bn) - its highest in 14 years - at a time when consumer fuel prices have been at record highs.

Morrisons has launched a line of "carbon neutral eggs" from hens fed on insects reared on the company's own food waste.

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US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is set to arrive in Taiwan later today amid escalating tensions in Beijing over the impending visit.

Annual house price growth in the UK accelerated to 11% in July, slightly up from the 10.7% seen in June, according to new figures.

California has become the second US state in three days to declare a state of emergency to tackle the spread of monkeypox.