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Education Secretary Nicky Morgan says it is “completely unacceptable” for an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect in London to order a driving ban for women.
Women in a Jewish sect in north London have been told not to drive or face having their children barred from school. They are were told that driving would offend “traditional rules of modesty”.
Alistair Carmichael, the former Scottish Secretary, should not resign as an MP for lying about a leaked memo because many politicians are guilty of telling a “brazen lie”, Sir Malcom Bruce has said.
The Islamic State group releases the first footage from inside the ancient city of Palmyra after capturing the World Heritage site a week ago.
Islamic State fighters have killed at least 400 people in Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra, most of them women and children, Syrian state television says.
Jonathan Rugman
It has been a bad week for the American-led “strategy” against militants from so-called Islamic State – a strategy with the US president himself views with great qualms and some reluctance.
Gary Gibbon
David Cameron plans to remind EU leaders that nearly 4 million British voters backed Ukip. He thinks some EU countries under-estimate the British desire to move from the status quo in Europe.
Former Scottish secretary Alistair Carmichael accepts responsibility for leaking a memo claiming Nicola Sturgeon wanted David Cameron to remain as PM – a leak he had previously denied knowledge of.
Islamic State fighters are reported to have seized the last border crossing between Syria and Iraq, in the latest advance by the jihadist group against Bashar al-Assad’s struggling military.
Gary Gibbon
Cameron is in Riga today to meet his fellow EU leaders for the first time since the election, but the focus won’t be on his party’s now mandated plans for renegotiation.
Concerns are raised over the fate of ancient monuments in the Syrian city of Palmyra – but the victory by the Islamic State group is first and foremost a strategic one.
Pope Francis names two Palestinian women as saints just days after the Vatican formalised its de facto recognition of the Palestine state. Channel 4 News takes a look at his other political battles.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist is panned for trashing the official version of the Osama bin Laden assassination – so should we start believing other outlandish theories about the killing?
Until today two words have been missing from the general election 2015 campaigning: foreign policy.
UK citizens have been travelling to Syria and Iraq since the start of the uprisings against Assad. Since 2013 online recruitment has convinced thousands of western Europeans to make the journey.