A female journalist reported Michael Fallon to Downing Street for attempting to lunge at and kiss her, it has emerged.

Michael Fallon has resigned as Defence Secretary, a Downing Street spokesman said.

Terror group Islamic State is "failing" in Iraq, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has said - as he warned that the fight to regain the country's second largest city "will not be a quick operation".

Britain is to deploy two RAF Chinook transport helicopters to help bolster the defence of the Falkland Islands amid renewed fears of a fresh Argentine invasion of the islands.