It was only on 8 July that the Iranian foreign ministry told British officials they were in Kerman, southeastern Iran. The British Foreign Office has still not had any contact with the couple.

UPDATE: London mayor Sadiq Khan has stepped in to reverse this decision.

The tragedy was just the latest development in the “strange” and “sad” destruction of the house, residents said.

I went down the of the well-to-do civil parish to find out more. Read here:

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

But the £3million eight-bedroom mansion was left a charred and smouldering ruin on Sunday morning after a mysterious fire ripped through it overnight.

But for Xinjiang's Uyghurs, who are facing an alleged genocide, the rollout of China’s newest chatbot was just another way to erase their 12million people from history.

For many Chinese people, DeepSeek's meteoric rise as a competitor to US rival ChatGPT was a shining example of China's technological prowess.