A new government crackdown launched in the wake of the UK’s knife crime “epidemic” will target gangs, drugs and ban “zombie blades”, writes Peter Traynor.

An eight-year-old student took a kitchen knife to a central Minnesota elementary school and attacked three other children, authorities say.

Slagging between neighbouring apartment dwellers got so out of hand that one of the young men came out of his home with a large butcher’s knife to threaten two others.

Gardaí are hunting for members of a gang after a violent and unprovoked knife and bat attack on two teenagers on the southside of Cork city.

A man has been shot by soldiers in the centre of Brussels, after he attacked them with a knife.

Dramatic CCTV footage has been released of terrified store staff being held at knifepoint by two raiders who escaped with around £2,500.

A large knife has been found by Gardaí close to the scene of a fatal stabbing in Dublin.

A knifeman yesterday attacked passengers on a train in western Austria, seriously wounding two.

A 19-year-old man arrested over the murder of a US tourist in Russell Square has been described as a “little gentleman” and a “nice, quiet kid”, as police continue to investigate the knife rampage.

Neighbours of a teenager charged over the Russell Square knife attack described him as a "quiet" and "pleasant" young man who enjoyed playing football with his younger brother.

Nineteen people were last night reported dead and 45 injured following a knife attack outside Tokyo.

Limerick man, Liam Keane, who is charged with stabbing another man during a house-break is to be freed on bail, after his uncle lodged his "life savings" in court, as part of an independent surety to secure bail for his nephew writes David Raleigh.

Police officers opened fire on a man armed with a knife in a Sydney shopping centre, wounding him and three female bystanders.

St Stephen's Day shoppers have fled in panic after two men became embroiled in a fight believed to have involved knives in England.

The family of a man accused of a violent, sustained, and unprovoked knife attack at Leytonstone Tube station contacted police three weeks before the incident asking for help, it has emerged.

Update at 11.30pm: Gardaí have said the stand off on Mallow Street, Limerick, was a domestic incident.

Terror probe launched as France on red alert for further attacks.

A mother-of-three found murdered in her burning house was stabbed with a 14 inch kitchen knife, police have said.

The incident took place in Northamptonshire

A woman accused of murder told gardaí she got a knife and “stuck it in” her partner during a physical fight, a jury has heard.

A psychiatric nurse who stabbed a man with a bread knife during a drunken rage at an apartment in Limerick has been jailed for two years.