Ben Farmer

Giving vulnerable children a precautionary course of an antibiotic more than halves their chances of catching deadly drug resistant tuberculosis from close contacts, scientists say.

Long tormented by great white sharks, now surfers and swimmers in the Cape are being attacked by crazed seals carrying the deadly virus

Some of the more than 110,000 Maasai tribes people have moved already - AFP Maasai tribes people are being uprooted to make way for lucrative carbon credit and conservation schemes, activists say.

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Collapse of Moscow’s ally threatens bases and cuts off vital supply lines to pro-Kremlin military juntas

Asma al-Assad is severely ill with leukaemia and has been isolated by doctors who have given her a “50/50” chance of survival, The Telegraph understands.

British-born wife of ousted Syrian dictator, Bashar, is being kept in isolation as condition worsens

Asma al-Assad, the British wife of the ousted Syrian dictator, is severely ill with leukaemia and has been isolated by doctors who have given her a “50/50” chance of survival, The Telegraph understands.

China appears to have carried out the first flight tests of a previously unseen, stealth fighter jet

Video clips appear to show tests of previously unseen stealth aircraft