Jonathan Miller , Foreign Affairs Correspondent

“We did something nobody thought possible,” the leader of the Thai cave rescue mission declared today after the last trapped boys and their coach were finally freed, ending their 17-day ordeal. The dangerous, highly complex operation was launched after the group became stranded deep inside the flooded cave. They’ll now be in hospital for at…

Four more boys have been rescued from the flooded cave in Northern Thailand, leaving just four still trapped inside along with their football coach. The boys were taken straight to hospital by ambulance and helicopter – and were said to be “cold, but OK”. The mission to bring the others to the surface will resume…

Four schoolboys have been rescued from the flooded cave in northern Thailand. We are at the scene in Mae Sai.

In northern Thailand  rescuers say they could be ready to start bringing out the 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave as soon as tomorrow. But if there’s more rain – who knows what risks they could face.

Thai authorities are racing to pump out water from a flooded cave where the 12 boys and their soccer coach have been trapped since June 23. If they’re aren’t freed soon the arrival of the monsoon rain could mean months stuck underground.

The boys have been trapped by floodwater in the cave system for 12 days. If they’re aren’t freed soon the arrival of the monsoon rain could mean months stuck underground.

Rescuers in Thailand are still trying to work out how to extract 12 boys and their football coach trapped in a cave. The group were found on Monday after nine days stranded underground by rising waters. Military divers have reached the boys and have been providing food and medical treatment. We are in northern Thailand,…

They were found alive after an exhaustive nine-day search, but now the race to free 12 boys and their football coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Thailand has got even more urgent, with monsoon rains on the way. A Thai Navy SEALs team has managed to reach the boys with food and energy…

It’s been six months since the mass exodus of Rohingya refugees began as the Myanmar military and Buddhist vigilantes turned on the Muslims of Rakhine State. Since then, 700,000 have escaped into Bangladesh to join more than 300,000 others who’d fled earlier. Jonathan Miller is there, finding out if a remote uninhabited island, prone to sinking, is really the answer.

The extraordinary planned meeting has echoes of Richard Nixon’s mission to China in 1972 and this US-North Korean summit poses serious questions for other nations. So how will China and Russia react?

For farmers, the main priority has been to make sure their livestock has been kept sheltered and fed – and with sheep normally outside at this time of year, some animals have had to be dug out of drifting snow. Our correspondent Jonathan Miller has been to one farm on Exmoor – where they’ve been…

Four hundred thousand people are living “in hell on earth”, the UN chief declared today – a “human tragedy that is unfolding in front of our eyes”. This is the besieged Syrian enclave of eastern Ghouta, where dozens more people were killed or injured today as the Syrian bombardment continued. Hospitals have become so overwhelmed…

More than 120 people have been killed, including 20 children, in a wave of fresh attacks in East Damascus. Syrian forces have increased their relentless bombardment on the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta enclave, which is home to more than 400,000 civilians – as pro-government forces mass nearby for a possible ground assault. Russia’s foreign minister Sergey…

The United Nations Special Envoy on Human Rights in Myanmar, also known as Burma, has claimed that Aung San Suu Kyi could be complicit in the systematic persecution of the Rohingya people, in what bears all the hallmarks of genocide. Professor Yanghee Lee, who’s now been barred from Burma, said she’d received many death threats…

North Korea’s leader has called for a “further livening up” of the “warm climate of reconciliation” with the South that appears to have been created at the Winter Olympics. According to the North Korean state news agency, Kim Jong-un also praised the South for hosting a North Korean delegation at the Pyeongchang Games, where his…