Symeon Brown , News Correspondent

The father of 10-year-old Sara Sharif called police crying, and told them he had killed his daughter, just after he and his family fled to Pakistan, a court has heard.

A former soldier accused of escaping from prison while he was on remand for terror and espionage charges has gone on trial – charged with four offences including passing secret information to “agents of Iran”.

Two former Metropolitan police officers have been given back their jobs – after winning an appeal against their dismissal over a stop and search of two athletes. 

A long-awaited report into the causes of the Windrush scandal has concluded that decades of immigration law were designed to reduce the number of people of colour living in the UK.

He said it was a joke, but that didn’t stop the White House from slamming Elon Musk as “irresponsible” for musing on X about why no one had tried to assassinate Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, after the attempt against Donald Trump.

After a summer when riots on our streets have provoked condemnation and consternation, what is the state of our nation? 

A teacher who held a placard at a pro-Palestine protest depicting Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman as coconuts has been found not guilty of a racially aggravated public order offence. 

It promises to be another tough week for the Prime Minister. 

In another US election year, it might have been unthinkable – a promise from one of the Republican party’s most prominent grandees to vote for the democratic candidate. 

Brazil’s president says Elon Musk must respect the rulings of the country’s Supreme Court, amid a feud between the two over disinformation.  

More than 80 people had to be evacuated this morning as a huge fire engulfed a building in east London. 

For five decades, Jill Furmanovsky has been photographing the biggest names in rock music – from the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, to Blonde and Oasis.

Too many strip searches of children by police have been “unnecessary, unsafe and under-reported”, according to a damning report by the Children’s Commissioner.

Now a damning report has found a series of “errors, omissions and misjudgements” in the mental health care of Valdo Calocane, who was discharged weeks before he went on the rampage in Nottingham, killing three people.

The BBC has asked the disgraced newsreader Huw Edwards to return £200,000 in salary which he was paid since his arrest – saying he had brought the corporation into disrepute. Edwards admitted making indecent images of children last month.