Northern Ireland’s First Minister Michelle O’Neill has been urged to intervene after a Co Tyrone man was arrested in the UAE over an online review he posted. Craig Ballentine, 33, from Cookstown, was ...

Artefacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer in the late 1940s as part of the famous Kon-Tiki expedition are being returned to Chile’s Easter Island in the mid-Pacific.

Sara Sharif’s father has told jurors he “takes full responsibility” for the death of his 10-year-old daughter. Taxi driver Urfan Sharif, 42, made the admission under cross-examination as his wife ...

Catherine Mann, an economist and member of the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee, has not yet opted to reduce rates.

There is no “tension” between plans to make savings from limiting winter fuel allowance to the poorest pensioners and more people taking up pension credit, Liz Kendall has signalled. The winter fuel ...

Peter Sullivan remains behind bars for the murder of Diane Sindall who was killed on her way home from work in Merseyside in 1986.

Actor Timothy West, known for many roles in television and the theatre, has died peacefully in his sleep aged 90 “with his friends and family at the end”, his family said.

Homebase could be heading for a partial collapse, putting thousands of jobs at risk, amid reports that the chain has appointed insolvency experts with a potential buyer of parts of its 130-store ...

The climate-damaging vapour trails from jet planes could be eliminated for just a few pounds per flight, according to experts. Researchers say contrails – the white lines in the sky created by planes ...

The SpaceX and Tesla boss will jointly lead a new advisory panel with former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.

An Israeli strike on a home in northern Gaza has killed three siblings aged six and under, Palestinian medics said. The children are among at least six people killed in air strikes in the war-ravaged ...

Russian forces have struck Kyiv with a sophisticated missile and drone attack for the first time in 73 days, officials said. Air raid warnings blared for hours as Russia targeted eight regions of ...