The Irish Parliament has been dissolved for a General Election. Taoiseach Simon Harris said it had been the honour of his life to serve in the role, and he believed the time was right to seek a new ...

A Spanish research vessel that investigates marine ecosystems has been deployed to search for people missing after catastrophic flooding.

Fake Paddington Bear goods worth more than £15,000 have been seized in London following a crackdown on counterfeit merchandise. Nearly 2,000 counterfeit items have been confiscated from shops across ...

A woman who claims she was raped by Irish mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor in a Dublin hotel has been accused of telling a “web of lies” in the hours following the alleged incident.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has predicted that a new US administration under Donald Trump will cease providing ...

June Spencer, who played matriarch Peggy Woolley in BBC Radio 4’s The Archers, has died at the age of 105, her family has said. Spencer had played the character since the show’s first episode in 1951, ...

Sara Sharif’s father has tearfully told a court he felt his “world crushed” as he held her lifeless body in his arms. Taxi driver Urfan Sharif, 42, told jurors he found the 10-year-old collapsed after ...

Italian president Sergio Mattarella has met Chinese leader Xi Jinping on an official visit to China that came as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine pitted Nato allies against Beijing’s support for Moscow.

Martin Hibbert and his daughter Eve sued Richard Hall over his claims in several videos and a book that the attack was a hoax.

Soldiers have been deployed on the streets of Mozambique’s cities following weeks of protests against the ruling party that has been accused of rigging last month’s election to extend its 49 years in ...

New Jersey governor Phil Murphy, who knows Mr Trump personally, said he believed the Republican politician would have ‘sympathy’ over Brexit.

John Martin, 74, previously of East Lothian, was found guilty of abuse involving two young girls in the 1980s and 90s.