The group has been been in the firing line of international powers in Syria who deem it a terror organisation - and declaring its independence from al-Qaeda will seemingly not change that
Hillary has reached out to the angry white males who are the bedrock of Donald Trump's support and exuded optimism over her country's future
Jeremy Corbyn can expect a victory in the Labour leadership battle in September, but the electoral system explains why Owen Smith is running on his own a left-wing ticket
Stop declaring that America deserves better – a protest vote for Trump is like ordering a cider, being given a beer and responding by downing a bucket of bleach
Heavy D from Storagers Hunt UK claimed, without a flicker of irony in his pre-show interview, that his personal hero was Another Level's Dane Bowers. This is the kind of logic one can't argue with
The destabilisation of Turkey is good news for Isis as Turkish security organisations devote their efforts to hunting down Gulenists
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Straight out of a children's book of stories, this house epitomises the dream of a glorious Victorian country mansion.
The capital boasts a monopoly on professional services, legal services, media, culture, governance, technology, and even retail. An out-of-control housing market, suffocating congestion, and buckling public services are all evidence that this approach now no longer works – neither for London, nor the rest of the UK
Both Blair and Corbyn fell into the trap of keeping unnecessarily famous spokespeople – but the difference between Alastair Campbell and Seumas Milne is that Campbell was actually good at his job
The only way to halt the ageing process is to keep doing and seeing something different, even if you spend your time sitting in a queue
Australia's 'shark mitigation strategy', which includes fitting electronic tags to the animals, is like trying to stem a flood with a straw
Turn it into a respectable army of "moderates", give it a spanking new name, and then the Americans and Russians will stop bombing the daylights out of it and Qatar's loyal militia will destroy the Assad regime and… Well, if that happened, Qatar would control the future of Syria
The age doesn't encourage 360-degree thinking. We have retreated into our clan groups
'I didn't feel like I could keep up this pace of playing, and sort of don't want to either'
She's famous for her little black dress, but Holly Golightly's shoes are what you've got to worry about filling. Because they're already firmly occupied in most people's minds by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 film of Breakfast at Tiffany's. Hoping to shoo her ghost away is Pixie Lott, pop star turned actress, who plays the girl-about-town in American playwright Richard Greenberg's stage version of Truman Capote's novella.
