China announced a fresh round of military manoeuvres around Taiwan in reaction to the visit of a US congressional delegation, a move that ratchets up Beijing’s efforts to isolate the...

Afghanistan has two anniversaries coming up. Friday is Independence Day, commemorating the signing of the Treaty of Rawalpindi in 1919, in which Britain granted Afghanistan self-determination over its foreign affairs....

US lawmakers demanded more information on the potential threat to national security posed by Donald Trump’s hoarding of classified documents, as the fallout from the unprecedented search at the home...

Salman Rushdie was in critical condition but was able to speak after he was attacked during a literary event in the US, his son said on Sunday. The Booker Prize-winning...

Donald Trump has mocked, dismissed and railed against the FBI and US Department of Justice for the search of his Mar-a-Lago estate this week.But the warrant that was presented to...

UK civil servants have been ordered to trawl through the social media accounts of guest speakers at one government ministry, including going back up to five years to see if...

The writer is director of the Social Market Foundation think-tankFor more than a decade, the British state has been in retreat. This ragged withdrawal has been unplanned and inconsistent, felt...

Anshu Jain, the Indian-born banker who helped transform Deutsche Bank from a largely domestic lender into a global financial titan, has died aged 59.The City of London and Wall Street-trained...

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Salman Rushdie, the author who has lived under a death threat from Iran for several decades, was stabbed on stage during a literary event in the US on Friday morning....