Furious protesters took to the streets of the capital on Tuesday after the leader of the anti-Taliban resistance called for a 'national uprising' against the militant group a day earlier.

Salah Abdelsam, 31, has admitted discarding a belt full of explosives rather than blowing himself up on November 13, 2015. He arrived in court to face trial - the country's largest ever - today.

The Duke of York, 61, was seen with his ex-wife Sarah Ferguson yesterday leaving Royal Lodge, before the pair were driven on a 500-mile trip to the Queen's 50,000-acre Scottish estate.

Nick Gibb revealed the Government has already drawn up a 'contingency plan' to scrap exams for the third year in a row. This could mean A-level and GCSE pupils will be assessed by teachers.

The Commons is expected to rubber-stamp Boris Johnson's extraordinary national insurance hike - which pushes the tax burden to the highest in peacetime - in a vote later.

Carré Sutton, 52, was one of the most celebrated models of the 1990s. Eleven years ago she accused Elite boss Gerald Marie of abuse, and on Tuesday continued her campaign for justice.

Britain's vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi said the top-up doses would be crucial in allowing the UK to learn to live with Covid and preventing future lockdowns.

Care bosses hailed the funding as 'hope for a better future', despite fears the NHS will swallow it up. Pictured: Lynne Holmes and Jill Wilson outside parents' London home.

More than 13,000 migrants have arrived in the UK by boat so far this year, with another estimated 500 making the journey yesterday.

The Tube's famous 'mind the gap' warning may become unnecessary - as bosses look to install 'gap fillers' at stations across the capital.

Nick Gibb said today if jabs were recommended for the four million children in the age group parents would be asked for consent. But he said that in 'rare' cases this would not be the case.

The NHS Confederation and NHS Providers, which represent hospitals and health organisations, had wanted £10billion a year just to clear the patient backlog and additional costs.

EXCLUSIVE: Lawyers have told bosses at Swale Council in Kent the bungled decision are legally binding and will have to be reversed in court.

British army officers have analysed recent images of the Taliban using their weapons and they believe some of the fighters are using techniques they learned from British and American forces.

Shareholders and small business owners were yesterday hit by a shock tax hike on dividends as part of the plan to fund social care and the NHS.

Bosses said the £86,000 cap on personal care costs - funded by a rise in national insurance - was a 'once-in-a-generation' opportunity to improve social care.

Jamie Spears has filed court documents seeking to end his 13-year control of his daughter's affairs. The 62-year-old said he felt the conservatorship had run its course and should be ended.

The BBC resource, called 'The Ally Track', starts with an online game in which then players line up on a race track and are asked 20 questions about their privilege.

Extra emergency laybys, more warning signs and further road markings will be introduced by National Highways after the agency commissioned independent studies of the smart motorways.

The couple scaled a 6ft metal fence with a professional photographer to take photos by the coast at the stunning Foremark Reservoir near Repton.

Colin Pitchfork, who was imprisoned for life in 1988 for the rape and murder of two 15-year-old girls, has been placed in a hostel close to three schools and two nurseries since being released from prison.

The north London side (pictured, the stadium) also want supporters to cycle or take public transport to the ground - despite some living hundreds of miles away.

Experts in rheology, the study of how liquids and gases flow, discovered the film is created when polyphenols, the compounds in tea leaves, bond with the calcium carbonate in tap water.

In a bold package that could make or break his premiership, Boris Johnson laid out that national insurance rates will rise by 1.25 percentage points from April.

Sports shops dotted around the French coast near the Channel have been told to stop selling the boats and kayaks amid a steady flow of migrants sailing across the waters to the UK.

Scotland Yard's ex-commissioner Lord Bernard Hogan-Howe claimed would save money and benefit victims reluctant to have police at their door.

Boris Johnson and Prince William condemned the mindless racists who bombarded the footballers with monkey, gorilla and banana emojis after they missed penalties in the Euro 2020 final defeat.

Tory opposition to Boris Johnson's social care reforms was falling apart as the Prime Minister refused to rule out holding a snap reshuffle. MPs will vote on the plans this evening.

EXCLUSIVE: The antibody therapy has been shown to slash the risk of death or hospitalisation in people with severe health conditions by 70 per cent. Yet British doctors still can't get access.

Two senior law enforcement officials reportedly said that actor Michael K Williams, 54, may have died of a fentanyl overdose inside his Brooklyn penthouse on Monday.

Some of the chemicals used in the sewage treatment process have become one of the latest products left in short supply by Britain's driver shortage.

Tammy Humphreys' daughter arrived home from Ysgol Eifionydd in Porthmadog on Monday with a note from the school warning of detention if she wore the same skirt again.

After both a prior COVID-19 infection and two vaccine doses, some people's immune systems develop super-ability to respond to the virus. Researchers call this 'superhuman immunity.'

Richard Okorogheye, 19, went missing from his home in Ladbroke Grove, west London, on March 22, and was found two weeks later in a lake in Epping Forest, 20 miles away.

Residents in Llanrwst, Wales, have become concerned pigeons may have been poisoned or contracted avian flu after several were found dead around the town in recent weeks.

An HGV ploughed into a house in East Kilbride, Lanakrshire, on Monday night after a 'domestic row' reportedly 'escalated'. A family were forced to flee the property in their pyjamas.

Police were called to property Katie Price was staying at in Essex at around 1.30am on August 23, and a man was later arrested on suspicion of assault, theft and coercive and controlling behaviour.

Sebastian Shemirani, son of a well known conspiracy theorist and ex-nurse Kate Shemirani, who was struck off for claiming Covid is made up, has slammed her after friend died from Covid complications.

Harrow-educated Piers Portman, 50, described his Jewish wife as a 'greedy, grasping, thieving and lying criminal manipulator of the system'.

Darina Kogan and her husband Martin Bellamy, have upset residents in the Cotswolds village of Coates with their plans to 'refresh' the land to the west of their 38-acre £9.25m Georgian mansion.

Campaigners who got 'rough sex' banned as a defence to violence were this afternoon left disgusted after a man was handed less than five years in jail for strangling his lover to death.

Amateur fighter Saeideh Aletaha was found dying on her own after suffering a 'big punch' from her 'clearly stronger' opponent Janie Morgan at a Fast and Furious Fight Series contest in Southampton.

Some 668 deaths linked with the coronavirus were registered in the week ending August 27, up 17 per cent the 570 Covid fatalities one week earlier, official figures revealed today.

The Mayor of London warned Transport for London enforcement officers 'will not hesitate' to boot passengers (pictured this morning) off.

BA Sir Iain Duncan-Smith and James Gray, MP for North Wiltshire, called on senior officials to explain what is causing the 'unacceptable' queues.

The low-cost train fares on Lumo will be competition to London North Eastern Railway's slightly faster service on the East Coast Mainline, and will be more in line with the cost of coach travel.

Hundreds of HGV drivers working for Tesco and Hanson are warning of strikes over a pay and conditions dispute - threatening to plunge the country's supply chain crisis into further chaos.

A commuter fell through the gap between a train and the platform on the London Underground before being trapped and crushed to death, an investigation has found.

Alex Britton, 28, (pictured) was being helped by fellow motorists Tom Watson and Tina Ince after her car broke down on the A303 near Andover, Hants, when all three were killed in a collision with a HGV lorry.

The London Underground had its busiest morning rush hour since March 2020 for the second day in a row today, with Oyster and contactless 'taps' between 7am and 8am up 33 per cent on last week.

The Prime Minister's official spokesman said today reports of an October lockdown were not true, but they admitted contingency plans were in place as a 'last resort'.

Matt Dutton, 24, from Liverpool, who is visually impaired, relies on deliveries for food and other essentials so was using the delivery service to get £50 of groceries.

Ahmad Massoud, the son of the legendary freedom fighter Ahmad Shah 'the Lion of Panjshir,' tweeted: 'We are in Panjshir and our Resistance will continue.'

Simon Rigler endured the noise of rockets, grenades and machine guns while 'regularly exposed to enemy fire' during a frontline tour of Afghanistan in 2013 under Operation Herrick 18.

Laura Perry, 38, was standing on the rear aft deck when her family's 42ft-long hire boat hit the side of a river wall while trying to turn around at the Great Yarmouth Yacht Station.

Emily Rose posed with a firefighter Barbie doll for a picture which was shared on the Amesbury Fire Station Facebook page to promote women in the industry but she was targeted by a troll.

Rushcliffe Athletic Club joined a chorus of voices paying tribute to 17-year-old Dylan Rich on social media as they shared a photo of him online.

Energy firm EDF was requested to turn on its two coal units at West Burton A power station in Nottinghamshire after wind power failed to meet requirements.

UK Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle said there were other ways of 'exposing' those who don't tell the truth. He told Radio 4 that calling people 'liar' is 'not a good way of debate'.

Daniel Bodman, 39, was renovating an old shop building in Devizes, Wiltshire when he discovered the letter written by 'Nick Poole' in August 1986.

The British comedian passed away on Saturday with his wife, Beck, by his side, according to a statement from his agency.

Five people were rushed to hospital with injuries after police were called to the scene following reports of an assault in City Road, Cardiff, Wales, on Sunday afternoon.

The 15-year-old victim has told how she was forced out into deep water and raped by a man (pictured, an e-fit) who approached her while she was playing in the sea with friends in Bournemouth.

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.

Double-jabbed Sydneysiders will be able to pack their bags for a long-awaited domestic holiday as early as the end of October.

Britain's scorching start to September is set for an abrupt end, as Met Office experts warn of impending thunderstorms, torrential downpours and even hail amid a severe weather warning.

Long-suffering Sydneysiders will finally be able to enjoy a cold beer in the pub on October 18, after NSW's crisis cabinet decided on the date during a late night meeting.

Sharron Bateman, 51, is fighting breast cancer - but its another battle that is pushing her to breaking point. Unable to work, the Brisbane mother has been denied early access to her super fund by the ATO.

A worrying stat is pouring cold water on hopes Sydneysiders will be able to enjoy a fresh hair cut when lockdown ends in mid-October, with only the fully-vaccinated allowed.

Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott had gone for a surf at Manly's Fairy Bower Beach on Wednesday morning when he was photographed without a face mask.

Sunday's victim, 20, was attacked outside his Madrid apartment building. Attackers cut his lower lip with a knife and scored the word 'maricon' into his buttocks - the Spanish equivalent of 'faggot'.

Neddy Smith, whose crimes spawned an award-winning television series and made him the most infamous crook in the country, has died after spending more than 40 years behind bars.

The 'eyesore' structure towers over Sharon Everill's property in Knutton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire and according to the homeowner, came as a 'complete surprise'.

Minnesota man George Howard,48, was charged with murder on August 31 weeks after he was released on domestic abuse charges by a bail fund supported by Vice President Kamala Harris

Residents living in a Covid hotspot in Melbourne's west are frightened to step out their doors amid fear the virus is running unchecked among the community. 

The boys were racing down the street in Indiana when they noticed the funeral procession of a military veteran and beloved member of the community taking place on the green nearby.

British expat Danny Hodgson, 25, was on his way home from an end of season game when he was hit from behind in an unprovoked attack at a Perth train station on Saturday night.

Emily Burrows, 47,  from the Forest of Dean, was admitted to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital after she tested positive for the virus on July 23.

A frustrated young Australian singer trying to build a career in Malaysia has been cruelly hacked with her Facebook fan page clogged with increasingly strange and disturbing videos.

Peter Olsen, 49, from Jarrow, Tyne and Wear, was filmed dancing in front of the stage while Anne-Marie performed her hit 2002 at Scarborough Open Air Theatre on Sunday, August 29.

Mother-of-four Katherine Swabey is a 57-year-old former NHS nurse who works gruelling 12-hour shifts in a care home for elderly residents close to the village of Westerham, Kent.

'Kate is stable. She still isn't lucid for more than a moment at a time,' Quigley's mother Fran Wyles wrote in a Facebook post following the comedian's hospitalization on Saturday.

The progressive New York Democrat spoke out in an interview with CNN on Tuesday, slamming Abbott as ignorant of reproductive science but appearing to trip over her own phrasing.

Covid-19 statewide lockdowns are being blamed for an alarming rise in drowning deaths across Australia's main waterways, increasing by 20 per cent on the last 12-month period's figures.

He bought the house after The Muppet Show was overlooked by US broadcasters and picked up by British TV. It would go on to run for a remarkable 120 episodes.

The 40-year-old appeared in Central Local Court on Wednesday, where police laid a host of new charges, some of which date back to 2004, and involving a new complainant.

NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro has made an impassioned plea to international students left stranded in Australia advising them 'there is support available' while urging them to get jabbed.

The lawsuit, filed Friday, claims the University of Texas at Austin failed to respond to the harassment of black students who opposed its spirit song, 'The Eyes of Texas'.

A record number of Australians are working at least two jobs to pay their bills. But lockdowns and Covid restrictions have reduced their hours and job ads had the biggest plunge since early 2020.

The designer of a theme park ride in Colorado where a six-year-old girl plummeted to her death said in 2017 he deliberately avoided shoulder restraints, to make the ride 'more scary'.

Four top members of the Taliban's new interim government are former Guantanamo Bay prisoners who were freed by the Obama administration in a prisoner swap.

A manhunt is underway after a woman was kidnapped and stabbed in Solihull before breaking free and alerting police.

The 23-year-old left The Target Range shooting range in Van Nuys Monday with her boyfriend YBN Cordae, three days after her Grand Slam defeat.

In the first two weeks of October the state government will conduct a trial allowing fully vaccinated people to check into pubs and bars using the ServiceNSW app .

Queensland is set to host their first ever NRL grand final at Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium, after the NSW government said on Wednesday they were unable to host the season finale due to Covid.

In NSW, from September 13, residents outside of the 12 local government areas of concern are able to have outdoor gathering of five as long as they are all fully vaccinated.

Co-host Michael Rowlands confirmed Lisa Millar was going underground after users spotted she had deactivated her social media account with almost 55,000 followers.

A koala who was found clinging to life during Australia's worst bushfire season has been spotted in the wild with her new joey. 

Uber driver Kuldip Singh, 21, died at Mount Sinai Morningside on Tuesday after being shot by a stray bullet that was fired by a 15-year-old gunman during a Harlem shootout three days before

The bombshell accusation was made in court documents filed on August 30 in an attempt to fight a lawsuit by Duggar's sisters over the release of details of their alleged molestation to a magazine.

On June 30 a Pfizer representative contacted the Health Department to request the meeting, saying the American company had 'the potential to supply millions vaccine doses by the end of 2020'.

Kyle Van De Water, 41, a GOP congressional hopeful and Afghanistan veteran, was found dead at Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery on Monday night.

Alexander George O'Sachy, 43, is facing one count of murder as a domestic violence offence after Angela Godwin, 45, was allegedly stabbed at his home in Upper Mount Gravatt in Brisbane.

To understand how untouchable the yakuza crime gangs have always been in Japan, you only need to know how they used to rob banks.

'I don't think our country has ever seen a period like this, how badly were doing, and then you take a look at the border. And worst of all is what took place in Afghanistan,' Trump said on Tuesday.

Restaurants, clothing stores and schools will all reopen amid a swathe of eased Covid-19 restrictions as the lockdown in regional Victoria finally comes to an end.

After Lleyton Hewitt won the 2001 US Open in New York, he was due to parade the trophy at the World Trade Centre but plans changed and 36 hours later, the towers collapsed.

Tim Moodie from Kingswood in Sydney's west has given his sister $45,000 of his $50,000 prize for winning KFC SuperCoach after she received a shock breast cancer diagnosis.

Bayside City Council, in Melbourne's southern suburbs, shared photos of the destroyed signs on Tuesday and hit out at 'mindless vandals' who ripped them up less than a week after they went up.

The three men who threatened an Arizona principal with zip ties for telling a student to quarantine have been arrested on trespassing charges.

Chuanxing Liu, nicknamed Big Liu, signed a two-year deal with the Brisbane Bullets starting from the 2021/2022 season having played for Qingdao Eagles of the Chinese Basketball Association.

Octogenarian Rosemary Bartlam decided to sell the home she had lived in for more than 50 years in Holland Park West in Brisbane's south-east after the death of her husband Edward last year.

Court overturned decision that found Seqwater, the Queensland Government and another state-owned dam operator SunWater exacerbated flooding by failing to properly operate two dams.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called rumors that he would run for president in the 2024 election 'nonsense' amid claims Donald Trump has stepped up plans to win back the White House.

Jill Biden wrapped up her first day back in the classroom by watching from the Truman balcony as President Joe Biden returned to the White House from his trip visiting flood damage. 

The father of AFL star Lachie Neale has slammed the coverage of his son after it was revealed he is considering his future with the Brisbane Lions.

John Gibson has since been replaced 'effective immediately' by current vice president Alan Wilson, who will take over as interim CEO until the company finds his replacement.

Queensland Health Minister Yvette D'Ath accused Scott Morrison's government of seizing on any excuse to attack her state to distract from federal failings.

Shana Chappell, the mother of 20-year-old Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui, invited Trump to attend his funeral in a Facebook post, writing: 'It would be such an honor to meet the real President'

The British expat was on his way home from an end of season game when he was knocked to the ground from behind in an unprovoked attack at a Perth train station.

Donald Trump will host and commentate on a September 11 boxing match between Evander Holyfield and Vitor Belfort in Hollywood, Florida alongside his son Donald Trump Jr

A historic 13th-century courthouse (pictured) in the French capital will play host to the country's largest ever criminal trial.

Beloved science boffin Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, 73, said all Australians need to know the numbers one, 40 and 22,000 when weighing up whether or not they should get vaccinated against the virus.

The serious collision involving two trucks and two cars at the intersection of Gympie Arterial Road, and Linkfield Road in Brisbane's Bald Hills at about 7.14am on Tuesday.

Sophie Putland was in a state of despair when a furious client filed endless complaints about her work at Swan Street Vet in Richmond, inner Melbourne.

A dingo and sea eagle have been pictured in an unlikely fight over a meal after the dog cleverly pinched food from a fisherman's crab trap off Fraser Island.

Scores of Orthodox Jews faced down police at an 'appalling' gathering at a Melbourne synagogue to celebrate Jewish New Year. Worshippers have told to turn themselves in as police hunt them down

Cosmopolitan suburbs with younger people in Sydney from Darlinghurst to Bondi and Coogee have first-dose vaccination rates well below the New South Wales average.

Regional Victoria will be lifted from lockdown on Friday, despite the state recording 221 new cases of coronavirus.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has hit back at claims by her Victorian counterpart that her state has been given preferential treatment on Covid vaccines.

Professor Catherine Bennett warns against any sudden return to normal life once vaccination targets are met but predicts mask and bans on large gatherings will be last restrictions to go.

NSW has recorded 1,480 Covid-19 cases overnight and nine deaths. The new deaths include two residents in their 60s and one in their 40s and 20s from across Greater Sydney.

Ripper's use of 'fowl' language as he says 'you bloody fool' was recorded in 1987 by now-retired Australian scientist Peter J. Fullager when the talking bird was four years old.

Mr Roberts-Smith commenced legal action in the Federal Court against his ex-wife Emma Roberts on the eve of his defamation 'trial of the century' against Nine newspapers in June.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has flagged the pair as key to the next stage of the national plan when Australia's lockdown border walls will finally come down.

ProLifeWhistleblower.com a website designed to collect anonymous tips on people providing or receiving abortions in Texas was taken down for the second time this weekend.

Police sources tell DailyMail.com that the NYPD was working on a documentary with Michael K. Williams that was in the early development stage.

A retired US prisons officer allegedly shared information from R. Kelly's recorded phone calls, emails and visitor logs to YouTuber Tasha K.

'You promised me two stories - are you going to break that one too, dad?'

A family of five infected with Covid have been caught blatantly breaching home quarantine orders in a Melbourne hotspot that effectively forced Victoria into hard lockdown for the sixth time. 

The files were obtained by The Intercept as part of an FOI request to drill down the possible root of COVID and whether the US had any role in it.

President Biden said every part of the country was getting hit by extreme weather, and called for efforts to at least 'prevent it from getting worse' as he visited New Jersey and New York Tuesday.

A hardworking Australian man has been rejected from over a hundred job applications despite having a university degree because he is legally blind. 

Dominic Perrottet believes Covid-19 hotspots in Sydney's west and south-west should be granted the same freedoms as other parts of the city when NSW hits its vaccination tagets.

Victoria has recorded 221 new cases of coronavirus, with just 98 of the new cases are so far linked to the rest of the outbreak as the state's contact tracers struggle under growing infections.

Masks are here to stay and large gatherings will be one of the last activities permitted once Covid-ravaged NSW reaches 80 per cent vaccination.

The Houston Police Department said in a statement that two people were shot dead in the lobby of the Houston hotel around 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

The man - identified by police as Timothy Armstrong, 61, of Las Vegas - was recorded on cell phone video and appeared intoxicated on the flight from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City.

Mexico's Supreme Court decriminalized abortion Tuesday, making the country, home to the world's second-largest Catholic population one of the few Latin American countries to do so.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday expressed confidence he'll get Democratic Senator Joe Manchin's vote for his $3.5 trillion budget plan that expands social programs and raises taxes.