Police in Kathmandu opened fire on protesters demonstrating against a government ban on social media, killing at least 17 ...

Secretary of State Hilary Benn’s approach to the redesign of a process to deal with Northern Ireland’s troubled past has been blasted as “appalling”. Stormont deputy First Minister Emma ...

Thousands of university staff are to be balloted for strikes in a dispute over pay. The University and College Union (UCU) said 65,000 of its members working in universities across the UK will vote in ...

A PENSIONER repeatedly exposed himself to young girls as they cycled home from school.

Northern Ireland’s Education Minister has defended his decision to order the withdrawal of guidance around gender for schools. Paul Givan confirmed on Monday that he has written to the Education ...

Singer Ed Sheeran has revealed he is “just about to move to America”. The 34-year-old said he was making the move with his family due in part to an upcoming US tour, in an interview with The 2 ...

Jurors unanimously convicted former motor mechanics student Adam Mahmood of possessing a recording likely to be useful to a terrorist.

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has ruled out running for deputy Labour leader (Jordan Pettitt/PA) Former transport secretary Louise Haigh, another name touted, is understood not to be planning to run.

Five countries together accounted for more than half of those detected entering the country through so-called ‘irregular’ routes in the year ...

French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou is making a last-ditch effort to save his job, urging officials expected to topple him in a confidence vote later on Monday to back his plans to curb France’s ...

Simon Hewitt, Justyna Czoska and Wojciech Kowalkowski died when the Robinson helicopter came down in a field on the Isle of Wight in August.