The cells of Herat's main prison are crammed full. In each of the cells we go into, there are about 40 men laying jammed up against each other on the floor with some on bunk beds around the edges.

Sajid Javid has called for people to "draw a line under" Boris Johnson's use of a Jimmy Savile slur last week.

French President Emmanuel Macron is set to meet Vladimir Putin in Moscow this afternoon in an attempt to calm tensions on the Ukrainian border.

Sajid Javid has said comments made about Carrie Johnson in a biography written by Tory peer Lord Ashcroft are misogynistic and "sexist".

Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai has repeated her denial that she said she was sexually assaulted by a top Chinese official, in her first interview with independent media, as the International Olympic Committee said that its president had met her for...

Australia is to reopen its borders to all vaccinated travellers later this month after two years of barring tourists due to the pandemic.

Plans for a crackdown on "cowboy" parking firms will cap many fines at £50 and introduce a new code of conduct to better protect motorists, according to the government.

The world needs to act now to tackle Afghanistan's growing humanitarian crisis and help the children being locked up in prisons and sold by their desperate families to buy food because they are so hungry, England's children's commissioner has told Sk...

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has been cleared of an allegation he broke lockdown rules after he was photographed drinking a beer in an office.

Sajid Javid has denied that a long-awaited plan to tackle the NHS backlog - which was due to be announced today - has been put on hold because the Treasury blocked it.