A police chief who is investigating the British Army's top-ranking IRA agent told the UK Prime Minister she "got it wrong" on legacy cases in Northern Ireland.

The special counsel probing Russian interference in the 2016 US election has charged an attorney with lying to federal investigators about his interactions with a former Trump campaign official.

A man widely named as the Army's notorious IRA agent Stakeknife has been released on bail.

One woman was taken to hospital after the world's largest aircraft, Airlander 10, came loose from its moorings causing its hull to rip and deflate.

Flights were temporarily grounded at Stansted Airport in England after RAF jets were scrambled to escort a Ryanair flight.

A senior IRA figure who became one of Britain’s most prized spies in the North has been linked to at least 18 murders.

A council in the UK has apologised after two schoolboys were reported to police after one of them told a teacher he was getting a toy gun for his birthday.

A lorry driver in England who killed a woman and three children by ploughing into their stationary car while scrolling through music on his mobile phone has been jailed for 10 years.

The world's largest aircraft took to the skies for a successful maiden voyage - its first since being revamped in the UK.

A man arrested in Portugal in connection with the murder of six-year-old Rikki Neave more than two decades ago has been returned to the UK.

Leona Maguire added to her large collection of silverware yesterday when she was the top amateur at the Ricoh Womens British Championship at Woburn in Bedfordshire.

Some of the stranger stories from around the world

A gang of paedophiles who raped babies, toddlers and pre-school children and streamed the abuse over the internet to other sex abusers have been branded “beyond human instinct and evil” by a judge in the UK.

Members of a British paedophile ring who attacked babies and toddlers and streamed the abuse online have been sentenced to a total of 78 years in prison today.

A gang of paedophiles raped and abused babies, toddlers and pre-school children in attacks that were streamed over the internet to users around the world, a court heard.

Detailed proposals for Ireland’s first Center Parcs holiday resort have been put on display with a planning application to be made in the autumn.

Former Chelsea and England striker Kerry Dixon has been jailed for nine months after being found guilty of assault.

TO SEE green shoots rise from blackened branches in the vast swathes of forest destroyed by wildfires in La Gomera in the Canary Islands in August 2012 was at once a joy and a reassurance. 

Police in England are hunting a 57-year-old man in connection with a murder after a woman’s torso was found in a suitcase.

The acquisition of Center Parcs UK by one of the world’s largest commercial real estate companies will have no impact on plans to bring 1,000 permanent jobs to the Midlands as part of its first venture into the Irish market.

A gang of paedophiles who raped and abused babies, toddlers, and children aged under five in attacks that were streamed over the internet are facing lengthy prison sentences.

USA: Officials said a 62-year-old man holding a fish he caught on a boat in a San Diego bay was pulled overboard by a sea lion.

Researchers are developing a self-powered toilet which turns human waste into clean water and even energy to charge mobile phones.

BRITAIN: Store giant Asda has unveiled what it describes as the UK’s first sweet red onion, promising to rid shoppers of tears and bad breath after eating.

A British woman diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease almost 20 years ago said a fog lifted in her head after corrective genes were injected into her brain.

A zookeeper has been taken to hospital in a serious condition after an incident involving a rhino.

USA: A woman and her daughter both gave birth at the same hospital in Florida on the same day.

It's for their own good, apparently.

Police in England rescued eight people from “cramped and filthy” conditions at a caravan site following an investigation into them potentially being held as slaves and subjected to work exploitation.

The head of the firm behind a food product which officials have “strongly linked” to the death of one baby and the illness of 14 others in the UK says it is “saddened” by what has happened.

Football pundit Stan Collymore has re-activated his Twitter account and announced police have spoken to two teenagers about abuse he received online.

Former Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis has appeared in court to face two fresh charges of indecent assault in addition to the 12 he already faced.

DJ Dave Lee Travis was today charged with two further offences of indecent assault in addition to 12 counts he already faced.

Politicians in the UK have been accused of sparking an “open season on ethnic minorities” after the Government issued new guidelines to tackle illegal Traveller sites.

Staff at SouthWestern’s base in Clonakilty, Co Cork, are to develop a database for sheep, goats, and deer in England as part of a €7m five-year state contract.

Comedian Jim Davidson has “vigorously” denied the allegations made against him, after the star was rearrested over further alleged sex offences.

DJ Dave Lee Travis has been re-arrested in England over further allegations of sexual offences, sources said.

British police investigating the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal have made a further arrest and Sky News sources have said it is former Radio One DJ Dave Lee Travis.

Police investigating the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal made a further arrest today as they revealed the number of potential victims has risen to 450.

The case in Luton, where an Irish Traveller couple were jailed for 11 years and four years respectively, for keeping homeless men in conditions of “pure evil” reflects very badly on Ireland.

An Irish Traveller couple who “brutally manipulated and exploited” destitute men by forcing them into servitude in Britain were today jailed for 11 years and four years respectively.

Four members of a Traveller family in Britain have been found guilty of forcing destitute men into servitude.

In the UK, four members of an Irish traveller family have been found guilty of exploiting and abusing vulnerable men.

Four members of an Irish Traveller family have today been found guilty in Britain of servitude and forced labour.

A group of around 150 football fans forced a British town’s high street to shut after they tried to confront Italian fans following England’s defeat in the Euro 2012 quarter-final.

Detectives in Britain investigating the murder of a “beautiful” teenage girl were continuing to question a 19-year-old man today.