Sir Keir Starmer’s backing for reform of social care will be “absolutely critical” if much-needed change is to be made, a key figure has said. Sir Andrew Dilnot described it as “blindingly… bleedin’ ...

An Italian journalist detained in Iran since December 19 and whose fate became intertwined with that of an Iranian engineer wanted by the United States has been freed and is heading home, officials ...

Tributes have been paid to a 14-year-old aspiring rapper who was stabbed to death on a bus in south-east London on Tuesday afternoon. The boy, who has not been formally identified by police, was ...

Pope Francis has denounced the “scourge” of child labour and other abuses suffered by children, saying anyone who harms or exploits a child will have to answer to God.

McCoy’s is set to launch new Hot ‘n’ Spicy crisps in the UK on January 20 along with an on-pack promotion which could land shoppers £100,000.

A man has been arrested in Spain after a body was found in the hunt for missing Belfast man John George. The 37-year-old, from west Belfast, also known as John Hardy, had been on holiday in Alicante ...

The former New York City mayor owes £118 million dollars to two Georgia election workers after he was found to have defamed them.

Thousands of people remain without power during a bitter cold spell across Ireland. The entire island was under weather warnings coming into Wednesday morning, with temperatures as low as minus 6C ...

A glass of milk a day cuts the risk of bowel cancer by almost a fifth, according to the largest study of its kind.

The mercury is set to drop sharply, with lows of minus 15C possible in Scotland and northern England overnight on Thursday.

Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg will serve as the country’s interim leader while the far-right Freedom Party attempts to put together a new coalition government, the president’s ...

Aziz Ziriat and Sam Harris have not been seen or heard from since January 1 and they did not check in for their flight home on January 6.