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Only half of the Home Office’s recent asylum decisions have met its own internal quality checks, significantly fewer than before Rishi Sunak’s push to clear a backlog of old claims.

Civil servants and lawyers say errors and omissions are also driving a huge increase in costly legal challenges, with more …

Images of arrested people who were innocent of any crimes are still being stored in a police database that may be used for facial recognition purposes, an official report has warned.

In 2012, the high court ruled that keeping the images of people who faced no action or who were …

Researchers are preparing to make one of science’s most unusual journeys. They are planning to transport a container of antimatter in a lorry across Europe.

Antimatter is the most expensive material on Earth – it’s estimated it would cost several trillion dollars to make a gram – and it can …

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is believed to have fled the country his family has ruled over for 50 years as rebels

said they had captured the capital

Two senior Syrian officers told Reuters that Assad fled Damascus, …

Syria’s rebel forces, led by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group (HTS), have entered the capital Damascus, capping a stunning advance across the country. In an extraordinary day for Syria, president Bashar al-Assad is reported to have fled, his whereabouts are unknown.

Here is everything we know so far:

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Campaigners are urging Madrid city council not to abandon plans to ­create a museum on a site ­immortalised in a Robert Capa photograph that captured the aftermath of a fascist bombing raid in the early days of the Spanish civil war.

On his second trip to Spain towards the end …

• The US on Saturday announced a new $988m security assistance package for Ukraine as Washington

  races to provide aid to Kyiv before president-elect Donald Trump takes office

  . The package features drones, ammunition for precision Himars rocket launchers, and equipment and spare parts for artillery systems, tanks and armoured …

England could scarcely have been made to feel more welcome in New Zealand, be it a warm-up game tailored to their specifications in Queenstown, those eight dropped catches in Christchurch, or the cheery ground announcer regaling spectators with Harry Brook’s eye-popping statistics throughout. Whatever happens on the other side of …

Syrian rebels have said they are entering the capital Damascus without any sign of army deployments, arriving at the doorstep of President Bashar-al Assad after a lightning offensive in which they have swept across the country in just over a week.

“Our forces started entering Damascus,” Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) …

The British cyclist Katy Marchant has reportedly suffered a broken arm after a dramatic crash at the UCI Track Champions League meeting in London, which led to the remainder of Saturday’s races being suspended.

Marchant was involved in a collision with the German rider Alessa-Catriona Pröpster during the first round …