Ashraf Helmi

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced booster vaccines for over 50s and vulnerable young adults as part of coronavirus plans.

Heavy rainfall hit London, causing disruption in parts of the city.

Dr Ryad Al Sous, a beekeeper and former lecturer at Damascus University, fled the war in Syria looking for a better life in the UK. Now based in Huddersfield, he has founded a charity and helps other refugees and the unemployed learn how to look after bees.

Once home to articulated lorries and grey steel warehouses, Park Royal in London is now a popular haunt for members of the Arab diaspora searching for shisha spots and coffee shops.

Smugglers in Tunisia have spoken of how they evade the authorities and transport migrants from Tunisia to Italian island Lampedusa.

Egyptian scientists have discovered a 43-million-year-old fossil of a previously unknown amphibious, four-legged whale species.

An Australian farmer couldn’t go to his aunt’s funeral because of pandemic restrictions, so he paid his respects with a novel alternative: hundreds of sheep arranged in the shape of a love heart.

Lt Col Benjamin Caesar, a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon from 16 Medical Regiment of the Royal Army Medical Corps, says he treated a high number of children at the medical centre of Kabul airport.

The UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has denied news reports that we was enjoying holidaying on the island of Crete and paddleboarding in the days following the fall of Kabul, at the hands of the Taliban.

Fire crews tackle a large blaze at Edinburgh's George IV Bridge, near the Elephant House cafe, where JK Rowling wrote sections of her Harry Potter books.

Its lumbering frame may not make it the most adept hunter, but a giant tortoise has been caught on camera attacking and eating a tern chick. The tortoise was previously thought to be vegetarian. This is the first documented case of deliberate hunting in any wild tortoise species, experts say.

Researchers at the University of Leeds have designed a new inexpensive breathing device to help patients around the world who lack access to ventilators or oxygen supplies.

Under the measures, which apply to citizens, residents and tourists, proof of vaccination and a recent PCR test are required to visit most venues, including malls, restaurants and cafes.

Afghan women took to the streets of Kabul to protest against Taliban rule on the day which marks independence from British rule in 1919.

Celebrated Afghan NHS doctor Waheed Arian says recent events in Afghanistan mean an impending humanitarian crisis is on the country's doorstep.