In a brutal grilling by MPs he was told that his department's 'principal risk report' dated July 22 had warned 'rapid Taliban advances... could lead to fall of cities' and the extremists return to power.

The Duke of Sussex, 36, delivered a chiding speech to the GQ audience in London - which included Piers Morgan - as he urged governments to do more to vaccinate poorer nations.

The charitable foundation which owns the statue of founder Thomas Guy at the London hospital confirmed it will be moved and will be accompanied by a plaque detailing his ties to the slave trade.

Former health secretary Matt Hancock ,42, has been enjoying a romantic break with his lover Gina Coladangelo, 44, at a £87-a-night resort near Montreux in the Swiss Alps.

Liam Taylor, 19, died outside an Essex pub after being stabbed in the chest by an armed gang as revenge for an attack Liam had no part in. Three men have been convicted of his murder and jailed for life.

Colin Pitchfork, who raped and murdered two schoolgirls in the 1980s, has been released from prison.

Six specialist officers were pictured working in Sand Hutton, north Yorkshire which is eight miles from chef Claudia Lawrence's home, after they searched the gravel pits in the area just days ago.

The NHS Confederation and NHS Providers say patients are 'genuinely in peril' and that £10billion in funding a year is needed to help clear the backlog as there are currently 5.5million on the lists.

Piers Portman, 50, the son of Edward, 9th Viscount Portman of Bryanston, is on trial for a hate crime after allegedly calling anti-semitism activist Gideon Falter 'Jewish scum' in 2018.

King's College London researchers, who analysed data from 2million people, also said that being admitted to hospital with the virus was 73 per cent less likely in the fully vaccinated.

The author of Finding Freedom and media ally of Meghan and Harry said an unnamed senior figure 'found it really peculiar that I spoke as well as I do' as someone who is mixed race.

Research by scientists at Germany's Max Planck Institute studied 51 dogs of various breeds and found that dogs can tell if humans have done something on purpose of whether it was a mistake

The shock new study, released by Swim England, found that 96% of seven to 11-year-olds in England, can't perform the most basic swimming manouveres and are at increased risk of drowning.

Six major NHS hospitals are trialling the use of a new AI algorithm which is 98 per cent effective at detecting prostate cancer and would dramatically speeds up diagnosis.

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said 'is obvious that Britain is not a superpower' and evacuation from Afghanistan 'could have been worse' if the Taliban had fought back.

Tory MP Tom Tugendhat accused the Taliban spokesman of lying about the groups true intentions and accused him of fronting 'a slick PR operation masking a vicious death cult'.

A panel of obesity experts and dietitians published a review of 90 scientific papers on people who have overcome type 2 through diet.

The annual World University Rankings, published today, show Oxford has managed to retain its top spot for the sixth consecutive year.

Experts say the fall in spending per pupil, which is 9% lower than in 2009/10, is the lowest in 40 years and will only make it harder for pupils in deprived areas to get up to speed after the pandemic.

The study was carried out by Public Health Scotland and Glasgow University. It found that teachesr were 50 per cent less likely to be admitted to hospitals than the population when schools shut.

The NHS was told in June to prepare to re-vaccinate 32million Britons - with the ambitious programme slated to start next week.

Dr Mina Chowdhury frightened parents into paying for private treatment run by his company, Meras Healthcare by falsely diagnosing their children with cancer.

The Hubble Space Telescope snapped a picture of a Herbig-Haro object that looks like a lightsaber from Star Wars, located in the Orion constellation.

Pictures at Heathrow from around midday showed long snaking lines of travellers packed closely together with no social distancing, as some aired themselves with leaflets in an attempt to stay cool.

Student Laura Amherst, 31, who last week seen dancing topless in Oxford Circus to 'draw attention to the climate crisis' was today pictured baring all outside the gates of Downing Street.

Health chiefs posted another 35,693 infections spotted over the last 24 hours, barely a change from the 35,847 recorded the previous week. Experts say they will surge as schools return.

Ministers today admitted that only around 100 councils - around a third of the 333 local authorities in England - have so far come forward to help families find homes under the ARAP scheme.

EXCLUSIVE: Honourable Simon Howard, 65, appeared before York magistrates on August 26 accused of three offences against one woman.

FIFA will have observers at the match in Budapest to monitor proceedings after racist and homophobic abuse marred recent games played by the Hungarian national team and in Euro 2020..

The 27-year-old has been in custody at HMP Altcourse since last Friday, when he appeared at Chester Magistrates' Court charged with four counts of rape and one sexual assault.

Scots will require vaccine passports to go to nightclubs, music concerts and festivals and Premiership fo0otball matches under new plans unveiled by Nicola Sturgeon today.

Pictures show lateral flow tests with two lines - indicating a positive result - strewn on the ground outside Reading Festival in Berkshire where attendees began packing up to go home on Monday.

The 81-year-old royal, who is the reigning Danish monarch, will design the sets for an adaptation of a romantic fantasy novel by Out of Africa's Karen Blixen.

Oxford University experts claim they have developed a device that can spot the virus and give a result in as little as 10 minutes without a throat or nose sample.

A trove of bracelets, rings, and other 11th century Russian jewelry was discovered near the site of Old Ryazan. Experts say it was buried a century before the city's bloody Mongol siege in 1237.

The World Health Organization has declared the variant 'Mu' or B.1.621 as a possible threat. Almost 50 cases have been spotted in the UK, and hundreds in the US.

Logan Mwangi's body was discovered in the Ogmore River on July 31 near his home in Sarn, Bridgend, after he was reported missing by his mother Angharad Williamson.

British journalist Syed Taalay Ahmed, 31, was shot and killed by a group of armed robbers while on deployment in Ghana in August 23. He had been on deployment for Muslim Television Ahmadiyaa.

Panteli Kola, 34, repeatedly punched a new father's face outside of his front door in Wandsworth, south west London, over a takeaway argument as his three-month-old baby slept just metres away.

George Cox, 45, from Hartcliffe, Bristol, was rushed to hospital on August 22 after going into anaphylactic shock, which caused a cardiac arrest. He passed away on Saturday.

Semina Halliwell, 12, died on June 12 after months of torment following her rape in Southport, Merseyside. Her mother Rachel shared videos of her daughter being punched and kicked by bullies in April.

A source close to the JCVI - which decides Britain's vaccine roll out - said they needed to consider how to prioritise boosters for vulnerable groups alongside a jab programme in schools.

Mr Tugendhat, who served in Afghanistan, accused the Taliban 'lying' about Britons being allowed safely out of Afghanistan - saying the group has been hunting people down and killing them.

Sir John Sawers said the new Taliban regime will have to show it is willing to crackdown on terror groups if it is to establish working relationships with the US and UK.

He was told by guards he would be placed in the VP wing for vulnerable prisoners after he arrived at HMP Altcourse in Liverpool, but thought they meant the 'VIP wing'.

An Afghan interpreter was saved because he was told by the UK authorities to head to the Abbey Gate but decided it was 'madness to go there' given warnings of an imminent terrorist attack.

British officials have opened talks with the Taliban about getting UK citizens and allies out of Afghanistan, it emerged last night.

RICHARD KAY: Unauthorised it may be, but Finding Freedom does provide one valuable service: come what may the Duke and Duchess of Sussex must always have the last word.

A headline published on February 7 reported that scientists had released anthrax on the Northern Line. In fact, it was B globigii, a different bacterium from the same family.

Photos shared by the pair show Lee Byrne, the son of Irish mob boss Liam Byrne, embracing Daisey O'Donnell, a model who has built up a large Instagram following by posing in bikinis.

Bunnings stores across Greater Sydney are reopening for retail customers from next week.

US troops 'demilitarised' 73 aircraft before their departure this week according to the commander of the US evacuation mission, Gen. Frank McKenzie.

Marie del Rosario, 33, from Winnipeg, Manitoba, and her partner Jasa Grant, 34, invited friends and family to their home where they would announce the sex of their baby.

Six people are confirmed dead after New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania were hit by severe flooding. More than 60 million people throughout the northeast are under flash flood watches.

Australia's biggest online retailers including The Iconic, Big W and Kmart have warned customers to expect delays of up to a week for orders after Covid chaos hit Australia Post.

Susanna Reid, who was Piers Morgan's former co-star on Good Morning Britain, said today that it was 'quite a moment' when he walked off in March after a debate about Meghan Markle.

Deputy JCVI chair Professor Anthony Harnden said: 'I think it is still highly likely that there will be a booster programme. It's just a question of how we frame it.'

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has claimed he warned in July that the 'game is up' in Afghanistan amid a worsening row with Dominic Raab.

Popular Indian TV and film start Siddharth Shukla has died at the age of 40 from a heart attack in Mumbai, it has been reported. Shukla had acted in Bollywood films and starred in a number of hit TV shows.

In a tweet linking to an article about Afghanistan and the so-called War on Drugs, Boris Johnson's ex-top aide compared Downing Street meetings on drugs policy to satirical C4 series Brass Eye.

Exhausted locals living near a holiday beauty spot in Suffolk have dug trenches to try and stop camper vans from parking there.

An urgent search for a stolen car which had a five-month-old baby in the back seat on the Gold Coast has been successful.

Four boys aged 17 and under have been arrested after a fatal stabbing in Sydney's west on Wednesday night.

The Sacramento City Unified School District said an Afghan immigrant family with three children had asked for help in getting out of Afghanistan.

Bella Grace Bennett was killed in a tragic accident after a stone slab toppled over and fell on top of her while playing on it with her 8-year-old sister in Blackshear, Georgia Monday morning,

The map below shows the locations Afghan refugees are being taken after fleeing Kabul. Now the US has wrapped its military evacuation, officials are grappling with processing and vetting thousands.

A man threatened a van driver with a German Shepherd dog during a road rage incident in Ipswich, Suffolk. The footage has been shared widely on social media platform TikTok.

The new rules to allow couples to get married in lockdown have been finalised for New South Wales - but there are some very specific strict conditions.

Prosecutors are considering the death penalty for at least one of three people accused of torturing and murdering Roy Jaggers, 27, in a remote part of Nevada near Las Vegas.

Dr Raisah Sawati (pictured), 33, was found asleep on a bench after colleagues tannoyed her four times and reported her missing from duty at Fairfield Hospital near Bury, Greater Manchester.

At least four child kidnappings have been reported in recent weeks in the secretive country, which is struggling with international sanctions and food, medicine and fuel shortages.

The Queensland premier on Wednesday vowed to keep her state border closed until modelling is done on how children aged under 12 will be affected by a major Covid outbreak.

The kookaburra dubbed Kevin had been injured by some ravens at the truck stop believed to be in Melbourne last week and was 'not in a good way' when a worker named Liam spotted him.

Jury selection entered day two on Wednesday at the San Jose federal courthouse for the fraud trial of disgraced ex-Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes.

Imports into Australia of Ivermectin, a drug used to treat parasites in livestock and falsely claimed to treat Covid are 10 times higher than usual thanks to ridiculous anti-vaxxer propaganda.

Fed-up neighbours have exploded in four-letter fury at Melbourne band's foul-mouthed lyrics after being forced to listen to their uncensored songs being sung in their backyard for days on end.

Unable to easily free the stricken birds as the drain was padlocked shut, the tradie on the on the Bellarine Peninsula in Victoria, he grabbed his angle grinder and cut the drain open.

The two Democrats are supporting the proposal, which seeks to create a new department that employs a 'comprehensive public health approach' and licensed peace officers 'if necessary.'

September 23 will be Melbourne's 235th day spent in lockdown since the start of the pandemic, with restrictions expected to continue into October as coronavirus cases rise.

Mohamed Hadid, the father of supermodels Gigi and Bella Hadid, has started construction on a new Beverly Hills property overlooking Coldwater Canyon with an asking price of $250 million.

Frustrated Melburnians are at risk of missing crucial vaccination slots due to an error with the Victorian Government's jab notification system. 

All petrol stations will sell E10 as standard unleaded petrol from September in a bid to cut emissions but experts have warned the new fuel could be worse for the environment and could damage your car.

A NSW Health employee personally intervened to get all 163 senior students at a prestigious $50,000-a-year school vaccinated, unearthed emails reveal.

Australia is speeding toward a Christmas border crisis where international travellers can stream in for a festive lunch but families will still be divided across state lines.

Sarah Keaveney, 43, was last known to be living in a rental property at Point Frederick in the Brisbane Water area of the NSW Central Coast.

NRL star Tevita Pangai Jr and his partner Anna Inoke were forced to say goodbye to their daughter Georgia Lose Galilee Pangai after the baby was delivered stillborn at just 24 weeks old in August.

An investigation ordered by the Vatican cleared Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of sexually abusing two young boys while working in a New Jersey parish in the 1970s

Misinformation about Covid-19 is driving 'incredibly low' vaccination rates in some Aboriginal communities in South Australia, including parts of Adelaide, health officials admit.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced in Parliament on Thursday Australian Paralympians will be paid the same as Olympians for the first time in history.

Daniel Andrews was nowhere to be seen at a press conference held a day after he declared his dogged battle for a 'Covid-zero' state was finally over.

A Melbourne man yelled 'die you f***ing c***'' and ''If I'm going to jail, it's worth it' as he stabbed a 65-year-old female neighbour so hard his knife broke after a dispute over a washing machine.

Insiders last night said that ITV's director of television Kevin Lygo was fighting a 'one-man mission' to bring Piers Morgan back to Good Morning Britain, but an insider said he was 'fighting a losing battle'.

More than eight years before the terrible events of 9/11, in February 1993, a 1,500lb bomb exploded underneath New York's Twin Towers. It had been planted by Al Qaeda.

A Sydney Covid patient who self-medicated with the drug Ivermectin and other supposed coronavirus cures has been admitted to hospital after overdosing. 

Australian basketballer Liz Cambage has been forced into isolation after testing positive to Covid-19.

NSW recorded 1288 Covid cases on Thursday and tragically seven deaths from the virus. 

Courtney Wild, who has claimed Epstein sexually abused her beginning when she was 14, is taking her fight to discredit a deal between federal prosecutors and Epstein to the Supreme Court.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has warned stubborn state leaders who refuse to open their borders their citizens won't tolerate 'living in a bubble' forever and they needed to get ready for outbreaks.

A 30 year old speech by the media magnate has sparked furious online debate that turned into a flame war between a Sydney Liberal MP and an angry businessman.

A family of five has been forced into hotel quarantine after travelling to Melbourne from the Gold Coast and back and the school two of their children attended closed.  

Two men have been arrested for breaching public health orders in Sydney after they were caught by police twice within an hour driving more than 100km away from their Covid-hotspot suburb.

The Prime Minister has been scrambling to secure extra Pfizer doses from allies around the world after only initially ordering 10million doses in November last year.

Chad Daybell's children on Wednesday night told CBS's 48 Hours that they did not believe their father was responsible for the 2019 murder of his new wife Lori Vallow's two children or their mother.

House prices are surging by 30 per cent a year from Sydney's Northern Beaches to Queensland's Sunshine Coast, northern New South Wales and Victoria's Mornington Peninsula.

A Gold Coast truck driver is under investigation after Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk told state parliament he was one of two new Covid cases in the state.

A superintendent in Oregon was fired by the Adrian School Board on Monday assumingly for his decision to uphold Gov. Kate Brown's statewide mask mandate in schools.

Jack Toohey posted a video to his TikTok account showing viewers five designs that have been created to be an alternative to the current Australian flag on Thursday.

The youngster was bouncing on his trampoline when he came in contact with a spiky cocoon with a white stemmed gum moth inside.

Horrified neighbours have recalled the harrowing screams that marked Victoria's first Covid fatality of 2021 - a woman, 49, who passed away in her home in Northcote in Melbourne on Tuesday.

The Bondi limo driver at the centre of Australia's biggest coronavirus outbreak has been broken his silence about the saga after he was busted not wearing a mask earlier this week in Sydney's east.

New South Wales has recorded another 1,288 Covid cases with the state hitting 70 per cent single dose vaccinations on Thursday.

Australians are banned from going overseas without an exemption until December 17, Health Minister Greg Hunt announced on Thursday.

Twin infant boys were found dead in a vehicle outside a daycare center Blythewood, South Carolina at around 5.30pm Wednesday. A cause of death was not immediately released.

A new study by Wakefield Research has found that 24 per cent of the 200 bosses surveyed have fired employees over virtual meeting glitches and technicalities.

Jessica Watson's boyfriend Cameron Dale died in a Gold Coast Hospital on Monday. A friend said Cameron spent days trying to meet her to win her heart ten years ago.

The interval between AstraZeneca doses has been halved to from 12 weeks to six after Victoria recorded 176 new infections on Thursday.

Oscar De La Hoya, 48, told The Los Angeles Times, in an interview published on Tuesday, that he had been raped by a woman in her 30s when he was 13, and had traveled to Hawaii to box.

New York lawmakers on Wednesday voted to extend the state's eviction moratorium. The stay expired Tuesday. As many as 700,000 people in the state are believed to be behind on rent.

Victoria's dramatic surge in Covid infections reached new heights with 176 new cases recorded just as Dan Andrews abandons eliminating the virus.

The victim was identified as William Chavis Reynard Miller Jr., a student at Mount Tabor High School in the city of Winston-Salem, Forsyth County Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough Jr. said.

Susan Sice, 72, was completing a four-hour work trip just nine kilometres into NSW when Queensland changed its border policy and shut her out, forcing the pensioner to stay at a caravan park.

The mother in her 20s from Fairfield in Sydney's west held the only division one winning entry in Wednesday's Lotto Strike draw 5015 that amounted to $302,379.25.

Shocking video footage captured the moment a man stumbled off a Nashville Pedal Tavern and nearly got his head crushed by a white car after he stumbled into oncoming traffic

Arizona, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Oklahoma and Utah will be the first states to test a new Apple Wallet feature which will allow drivers to store their license on their iPhone.

Joe Rogan, the popular podcaster and comedian who has made controversial comments criticizing vaccines and coronavirus lockdown measures, has been diagnosed with COVID-19.

Renowned fashion photographer Bruce Weber, 75, has settled a second sexual-assault lawsuit out of court, brought against him by a group of male models for an undisclosed amount.

Queensland couple Dominique Facer and Mick Francis haven't seen their little boy since he went to visit his grandparents in the NSW Riverina region eight weeks ago.

'And you thought me and Lilibet were bad, Daddy!'

Dukes of Hazzard star John Schneider tells DailyMail.com he will resto his beloved replica of the show's iconic car despite it being crushed beyond repair by Hurricane Ida over.

Rory Kennedy, 52, published an opinion piece on Wednesday titled 'The Man Who Murdered My Father Doesn't Deserve Parole' pleading that Sirhan Sirhan, 77, be denied parole.

Food Standards Australia New Zealand announced that Thirsty Brothers Pty Ltd had conducted a recall of Original Juice Co. Black Label Cloudy Apple Juice 1.5L with the use-by date of October 7 2021.

NSW is on track to hit 70 per cent single dose vaccinations on Thursday as Premier Gladys Berejiklian hints about what life will be like once residents are double-jabbed. 

Cute animals caught in funny poses - what's not to like? The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards have revealed which pictures have made the final this year.

Ministers have reportedly drawn up plans to move the UK's nuclear submarines to the US or France in the event Scotland secures independence but Plymouth is the first choice

A 32-year-old woman was shot in the hip after two gunmen racing by on Razor scooters opened fire in Brooklyn on Wednesday afternoon, according to police.

President Joe Biden's administration conceded on Wednesday that the majority of America's Afghan allies were left in country as the U.S. withdrew. 

A Sydney woman struck down with Covid who infected her cancer-survivor father and unwell mother says people need to take the virus seriously as she details her harrowing experience.

The Dona Ana Range Complex in New Mexico has been closed to the outside world since the first 2,160 Afghans refugees currently at the Fort Bliss subcamp arrived.

Amazon is asking its delivery partners, which operate the company's blue vans to prominently advertise to job seekers that they do not screen for marijuana use in a bid to overcome driver shortages

Dozens of former British Council teachers and workers who applied to the UK for relocation under the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy have either been rejected or are still awaiting a decision.

Travel blogger Dev H Langer captured the moment that an alligator took down her drone in midair in the Florida Everglades.

A teenage boy has died and three others have been hospitalised after a wild brawl erupted in Sydney's western suburbs.

Fuming Eddie McGuire has slammed his shock AFL grand final ban as nonsensical - and warned Western Australia will suffer as a result.   

Over 60s will be sent a letter by the Federal government urging them to get vaccinated with AstraZeneca or be at the back of the queue for new doses of the Pfizer vaccine.

Another $3.9billion - split between the state and federal governments - will go towards wage subsidies, grants and rent and tax relief.

The Biden administration must develop a plan for destroying or immobilizing billions of dollars of military hardware left in Afghanistan, said Sen. Bill Hagerty of Tennessee on Wednesday.

River Stone died on August 30 at the age of 11 months from 'total organ failure', the family said. On Wednesday they announced that the baby's organs had been donated and saved three lives.

The State Department says it will 'do everything we can' after reports the US stranded an estimated 100 Afghan journalists and families in Kabul after failed efforts to get them out.

Brandon Theesfeld, 24, admitted to killing Alexandria 'Ally' Kostial, 21, in July 2019, as part of a plea agreement to avoid a possible death sentence. Theesfeld said, 'Sorry for the pain I caused you.'

President Biden's most senior aide insisted again that the White House had no clue the Taliban could take over Afghanistan so quickly as he defended the administration's handling of the withdrawal.