The UK government has issued a travel warning for Israel and Palestine and withdrawn its diplomatic staff from Iran, as the US advises embassy officials in Jerusalem they can leave.

Former MasterChef host Gregg Wallace has dropped his High Court claim against the BBC and won't be receiving any damages, the corporation has said.

A man has been charged after police were called to reports of a suspect armed with an axe at a Manchester mosque.

Afghanistan's new penal codes set harsher punishments for mistreating animals than for violence against women, according to the UN's high commissioner for human rights.

A Scottish health board has made a dramatic U-turn paving the way for hundreds of alleged victims of a "butcher" brain surgeon to sue, Sky News has learned.

The statue of Sir Winston Churchill in Parliament Square in Westminster was defaced overnight with "Zionist war criminal" and other graffiti.