The Taliban have urged people to leave Kabul airport after 12 people were killed there since Sunday.

Ben Wallace has defended Dominic Raab for being "too busy" on holiday to speak with the Afghan foreign minister as the Taliban closed in on Kabul - but Labour say his position as foreign secretary should now hang in the balance.

No child will be taken out of Afghanistan on their own, the defence secretary has said, following eyewitness reports of desperate women throwing babies over razor wire at a compound and asking British soldiers to take them.

People who become infected with the Delta variant even after being fully vaccinated may still pass the virus on, undermining hopes of herd immunity, new research suggests.

AstraZeneca's CEO was the highest paid executive in the FTSE 100 in 2020, earning £15.45 million for his part in delivering a coronavirus vaccine that has been administered tens of millions of times already this year.

US President Joe Biden has said there was no way for troops to pull out from Afghanistan "without chaos ensuing".

You can hear a noise as you approach the high iron gates that are the only way into the compound that is the centre of the British airlift operation out of Afghanistan.

The House of Commons was packed for the first time in 17 months, MPs breaking off their holidays to voice their anger, frustration and sorrow over the crisis that is unfolding in Afghanistan. 

Ahmad (we have changed his name to protect his identity) grew up in London, but moved to Kabul nine years ago to work as a business development manager.

The deaths of a West Mercia police officer and his three-year-old son are being treated as a suspected murder-suicide.