Downing Street has called on the International Cricket Council to “deliver on their own rules” as the England team resists pressure to boycott their forthcoming match against Afghanistan.

Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney is considering entering the race to succeed Justin Trudeau as leader of Canada’s Liberal Party.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said 700,000 extra urgent dental appointments would be delivered ‘as fast as we can’.

Jordanian state-run Petra news agency reported that a Royal Jordanian Airlines plane departed for Damascus on a test flight.

Blue panels have been removed from Downing Street’s press briefing room in an effort to make it a ‘politically neutral setting’.

The attacks plunged France into a year of unparalleled terror, beginning with the Charlie Hebdo assault and culminating in the co-ordinated November attacks, including the Bataclan tragedy. The nation ...