Sir Keir Starmer has declared "Labour is back" as he told his party the Batley and Spen by-election win shows what can be achieved when it "pulls together".
US forces have left their main military base in Afghanistan - the hub for a 20-year mission against the Taliban and al Qaeda - in the clearest sign yet America's longest war is ending.
Cases of the Delta coronavirus variant have risen 46% in a week in the UK - as an expert warned the even more transmissible Delta plus variant could soon hit the country.
The case against a former British soldier charged with the murder of a teenager in Londonderry in 1972 has collapsed - and a separate case against another charged in relation to the Bloody Sunday...