At least four migrants died in the eastern Aegean Sea when a small boat bringing them from nearby Turkey sank just off the ...

Funding for the Causeway Coast and Glens and Mid Southwest Growth Deals have been paused pending the spending review.

Israeli strikes have killed more than 180 people in Lebanon in the deadliest and most intense barrage against Hezbollah in ...

Rescuers have recovered the bodies of more workers killed in an explosion at a coal mine in eastern Iran, bringing the death ...

Shehraz Sarwar was acquitted after a district judge said he could not be sure the 46-year-old intended to cause injury.

Octopuses are usually considered to be solitary creatures, but new research suggests they might sometimes socialise with fish in order to share the responsibility of hunting. The findings broaden our ...

The new UK Government needs “to do better” in terms of resetting relations with political parties in Northern Ireland, First Minister Michelle O’Neill has said. Ms O’Neill was speaking to MLAs as she ...

The murder of a schoolboy in south-east London is a “stark and sobering reminder of the danger of zombie-style knives” ahead of an incoming ban on them, police say. The 15-year-old was found with a ...

Dozens of people rushed to a farm to save animals after it was hit by flooding with some wading into chest-height water to drag sheep to safety. Joanna Johnson started to break down in tears as she ...

Nurses have rejected the Government’s pay award of a 5.5% rise, it has been announced. Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in England rejected the deal by two-thirds in a record high turnout ...

Two Islamic State extremists who planned the murder of an imam referred to him as “Voldemort” who was engaging in “black magic”, a public inquiry heard. Father-of-seven Jalal Uddin, 71, died in a ...

Retired members of the Unite union criticised the Chancellor’s decision to cut the payment, saying ‘the poorest among us will die this winter’.