The Emir of Qatar as he embarks on a two day state visit to the UK. Investment and trade aren’t the only topics on the table.

Palestinian officials say Hamas and Fatah are getting close to an agreement to appoint a committee of technocrats to run Gaza ...

The BBC has pulled two MasterChef Christmas specials from its schedule after its presenter Gregg Wallace was accused of ...

A dramatic night in South Korea – locked in an impasse with the opposition over next year’s budget and amid a scandal ...

We spoke to John Nilsson-Wright, who is head of the Japan and Koreas programme at the Centre for Geopolitics at Cambridge ...

Syrian rebels launched the biggest attack in years against President Bashar al-Assad’s government forces, reigniting a bloody ...

Stalking victims are to be given better protection including the ‘right to know’ the identity of their online stalkers, ...

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson says she was “introducing free breakfast clubs in every primary school” and expanding ...

White Helmets rescuers say at least 15 people were killed after strikes hit a group of hospitals in Idlib, a village and a ...

Last month the Education Secretary in England pledged to tackle what she called the school ‘absence epidemic’ seen in the ...

We were joined by Dr Haid Haid, from the Middle East and North Africa Programme of the foreign affairs think tank, Chatham ...

The French government looks likely to fall this week – after left-wing and far-right parties lodged no-confidence motions in the prime minister. Michel Barnier has only been in the job since September ...