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The UN refugee agency today compared the photograph to the 2015 image of the three-year-old Syrian boy Alan Kurdi who drowned off the Greek island of Kos. But will it move enough hearts to change Trump’s hardline immigration measures?

Nasa is to open some pristine samples of moon rocks and dirt which have been stored for decades after being collected by Apollo astronauts. Hundreds of pounds of moon rocks are locked up at Johnson Space Centre in Houston, and lab workers are preparing to give some of the samples to scientists for study. Nine US research teams will get a sliver of lunar loot to examine. Next month marks the 50th anniversary of the first Apollo moon landing, but...

The Duchy of Cornwall’s assets are worth more than £1 billion, annual accounts have shown. The assets of the Duchy, a portfolio of land, property and investments which provide an income for the Prince of Wales, have risen £33 million to £1,099,748,000 in 2018/2019. Charles’s annual income from the duchy is £21.6 million, down just over £100,000 on the previous financial year. Although the income generated for Charles fell slightly, the Duchy still expects to achieve its target of 2.6%...

DUP leader Arlene Foster has said it is “very important” Britain leaves the European Union by October 31, but she refused to back either candidate to become the next prime minister. She said the Government must keep a no-deal Brexit on the table and claimed repeated extensions are fuelling public discontent. Tory leadership favourite Boris Johnson has pledged to leave by the Halloween deadline, but his rival for Number 10 Jeremy Hunt has left the option of an extension open....

Gareth Patterson QC told the Old Bailey that reasonable monitoring of terrorist Khuram Butt would have picked up discussions on planning.

Jeremy Corbyn’s spokesman has denied the Labour leader is in hock to unions over Brexit. Claims by Labour MP Dame Margaret Beckett that unions and Mr Corbyn’s aides are preventing the party shifting to support Remain were dismissed as “laughable” by his spokesman. Veteran Labour MP Dame Margaret told the BBC Today programme that people around Mr Corbyn “don’t give a toss” what Labour members think about Brexit and would be happy to leave with no deal. She said: “I’m...

Britain is currently scheduled to leave the European Union on October 31. The date is a contentious issue between the Tory leadership candidates, with Boris Johnson stating he will get the UK out of the EU on Halloween “come what may”. Johnson claimed the chances of a no-deal Brexit happening are a "million to one". Yet the EU has repeatedly insisted that it would not renegotiate the EU Withdrawal deal that Johnson described as Britain donning a "suicide vest." Meanwhile,...

Jeremy Hunt has spoken of his love of lambada dancing in the latest insight into the pastimes of the Tory leadership contenders. The Foreign Secretary said it was “quite an intimate dance” and the music “brings back some happy memories”. His comments came after Boris Johnson revealed a passion for making and painting model buses. On BBC Radio 2’s Jeremy Vine show, Mr Hunt had the track Lambada by Kaoma played in his honour. He said: “When I was elected...

“I was personally rejected by my mum, and the idea that the future monarch is saying they would support their children if they came out as LGBT is a message to the whole of society really, a message that we need to support and we need to empower LGBT people.”