Pakistani security forces have exchanged gunfire with hundreds of separatist militants as they sought to free about 250 ...

The Princess of Wales is to attend the Irish Guards’ St Patrick’s Day parade in a solo engagement next week. Kate, who is colonel of the regiment, missed the Guards’ celebrations last year after being ...

Russian ballistic missiles have killed at least five civilians in Ukraine, officials said. The assault comes a day after the ...

A former bishop who sexually abused a boy he christened as a baby has been jailed for four years and one month. Anthony ...

Donald Trump has backed Irish premier Micheal Martin to solve Ireland’s housing crisis. During his Oval Office meeting with the Taoiseach, the US president said the housing issue had arisen because ...

Proposals have been made to instead establish expert panels of senior legal figures, psychiatrists and social workers to decide on applications.

A proposed law to help thousands of mother-and-baby-homes survivors accept compensation without losing access to benefits has been tabled in the UK Parliament. Labour MP Liam Conlon moved “Philomena’s ...

The Competition and Markets Authority said the tech giants’ duopoly was ‘not working well, and this is holding back innovation’.

The UK has expelled a Russian diplomat and a diplomatic spouse in response to an “increasingly aggressive and co-ordinated campaign of harassment” against British officials in Moscow. The move is a ...