Absence rates at schools closest to the epicentre of the disorder in Ballymena have spiked amid the violence, the Stormont Education Minister has said. Paul Givan said 84 newcomer children at ...

A homeless man has admitted being at the scene of a fire at warehouse used in the Ukraine war effort – but told jurors he got “scared” when he learned it was linked to “Russian terrorism”. Around £1 ...

TV host Timmy Mallet has praised the “profoundly gorgeous” kindness of people after completing a cycle around the coastline of the island of Ireland. While on the 6,000km cycle of roads, paths and ...

Ryland Headley is accused of forcing entry into the home of 75-year-old Louisa Dunne in Bristol in June 1967 before attacking her.

Health officials said 34 Palestinians were shot dead on Monday in areas near food distribution centres in the south of the Gaza Strip.

Hundreds of medical students have voiced their opposition to an assisted dying law, as dozens of Labour MPs called for this week’s vote on the issue to be delayed.

One of the UK’s leading end of life doulas, from Ascot, killed himself after researching the afterlife, a coroner has ruled.

The Assembly Commission has described a technical Bill but the TUV and People Before Profit claim it is being done to secure an MLA pay increase.

Sir Keir Starmer has said France should do more to tackle a rise in small boat crossings in the English Channel, ahead of meeting Emmanuel Macron at a major global summit.

Albanian national Emiljano Kasaj was suffering from severe mental illness when he deliberately used his Mercedes to kill a pedestrian and a cyclist.

Roksana Lecka, 22, from Hounslow, kicked, pinched and scratched children in her care, out of the view of her colleagues.