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Twice, the air raid sirens sounded around RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus this afternoon. We were rushed inside as soldiers lay on the floor in body armour. It was over quickly.

A teenage boy has been seriously injured in a stabbing at a school in Nottingham.

Kristi Noem is to be replaced as homeland security secretary, following criticism of immigration operations that left two Americans dead.

UK average diesel costs have hit a 16-month high, less than a week after war gripped the Middle East and sent oil costs rocketing.

A woman who smuggled an arsenal of "terrifying weapons" and £500,000 worth of heroin into Britain in her Peugeot has been jailed for nine years.

Defence secretary John Healey has twice declined to rule out Britain joining strikes on Iran, when asked by Sky News.

Nottingham triple killer Valdo Calocane put a flatmate in a headlock and trapped him in his flat, an inquiry has heard.

Satellite images have revealed the scale of damage at Iranian military sites following US and Israeli strikes, but civilian infrastructure has also been hit, including schools and hospitals.

Leaking details from a National Security Council (NSC) meeting is "utterly dysfunctional and destructive", Harriet Harman has said.

Epping Forest District Council has launched a legal challenge to a ruling against its plan to stop asylum seekers from being housed in a local hotel.

Tributes have been paid to a "deeply loved" young woman who was killed in a head-on collision during a police pursuit. 

Shabana Mahmood has defended her plans for forced deportation of children under her new asylum rules. 

Former Scotland rugby union captain Stuart Hogg has been stripped of his MBE, according to an official notice in The Gazette.

Britney Spears has spent the night in custody after being arrested.

Britney Spears has spent the night in custody after being arrested.

The UK is to send more military hardware to the Middle East as the Iran war continues to escalate, Sir Keir Starmer has announced.

The home secretary has admitted the politics of migration is "difficult" for Labour as she announced measures to tighten Britain's asylum system.

Travellers have been left stranded across the Middle East and further afield as missile and drone fire continues in the Iran war leaving thousands of flights cancelled and airspace closed.

It's been a snowy and bitterly cold morning in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.