The Taliban seized Afghanistan on August 15 2021 as the US and Nato withdrew their forces at the end of a two-decade war.

Pregnant Renju Joseph, 31, was hit by a car driven at high speed by Ashir Shahid, 20, as she walked on a zebra crossing.

Police have seized £180,000 from social media influencer Andrew Tate used as a deposit on an Aston Martin. Tate paid towards the special edition Valhalla in July 2021, Devon and Cornwall Police said.

The 31-year-old, who plays schoolgirl Erin Quinn in the hit comedy, married DJ Hector Barbour, known as Denis Sulta, at a ceremony in Ireland.

The UK’s largest bioethanol plant has described a Government decision not to offer direct funding to the industry as “a flagrant act of economic self-harm” which will force it to close. Vivergo Fuels, ...