The prisons watchdog has said it will keep a close eye on criminals released early from jail under a government scheme, amid concerns that rapists could be among them.

French president Emmanuel Macron has become the first major western leader to visit Syria since the ousting of Bashar al-Assad.

The Princess of Wales talked dinosaurs and blew a kiss to a little boy with a rare vein condition during a visit to a hospital in London.

The coach of former Sheffield United player Maddy Cusack called her a liar in an account to the Football Association (FA) after her death, an inquest has heard.

Two drill rappers have been found guilty of murdering an 18-year-old man, in an escalation of a gang dispute that began on social media.

A stalker whose decade-long campaign against James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli led to her selling her home has been handed an indefinite hospital order.