‘Distraught and frightened’: Ex-marine’s wife in safe house after stampede chaos at Kabul airport

A former Royal Marine commando says his wife and a pregnant employee are now in a safe house in Afghanistan after they unsuccessfully attempted to get a flight out of Kabul.

Rail fares set for sharp increase as used car prices soar, new inflation data suggests

Rail fares look set for a sharp increase and second hand car prices are climbing at their steepest rate since 2010, new inflation data suggests.

Afghanistan collapse ‘happened faster than even the Taliban predicted’, says PM

The collapse of Afghanistan's government happened faster "than even the Taliban predicted", the prime minister has told MPs, but he denied the UK had been caught "unawares".

‘Distraught and frightened’: Ex-marine’s wife in safe house after stampede chaos at Kabul airport

A former Royal Marine commando says his wife and a pregnant employee are now in a safe house in Afghanistan after they unsuccessfully attempted to get a flight out of Kabul.

Afghanistan collapse ‘happened faster than even the Taliban predicted’, says PM

The collapse of Afghanistan's government happened faster "than even the Taliban predicted", the prime minister has told MPs, but he denied the UK had been caught "unawares".

‘I think they’ve changed’: Taliban ‘cooperating’ with UK evacuation effort, says chief of defence staff

The Taliban is "cooperating" with British forces as they work to evacuate people from Afghanistan and is not behaving in a "medieval way", the chief of the UK defence staff has said.

‘I think they’ve changed’: Taliban ‘cooperating’ with UK evacuation effort, says chief of defence staff

The Taliban is "cooperating" with British forces as they work to evacuate people from Afghanistan and is not behaving in a "medieval way", the chief of the UK defence staff has said.

Newly discovered prehistoric creature named after character from The Hobbit

A prehistoric creature, named after a character from The Hobbit, is one of three new discoveries that suggest there was a rapid evolution of mammals after the extinction of dinosaurs.