A mother accused of killing her under-nourished four-year-old son told detectives it was not her who starved him because "he would starve himself", a British court has heard.

Samsung Electronics has won a legal ruling after a British judge said its Galaxy tablets aren’t “cool” enough to be confused with Apple’s iPad.

A BRITISH court has issued a landmark ruling that may lead to American forces releasing a Pakistani man held without charges for eight years.

A BRITISH court has ruled that a transgender woman is not entitled to have breast enlargement surgery paid for by the state-funded National Health Service.

A BRITISH court granted bail yesterday to a newlywed accused of hiring a man to kill his bride during their honeymoon in South Africa.

STAFF at the country’s three main airports are to suffer pay cuts of up to 12% as the Dublin Airport Authority tries to reduce its payroll costs by €38 million per year.

The former partner of Shannon Matthews’s mother was sentenced by a British court to 20 weeks in jail today for possessing child pornography.

A 27-year-old man is due in a British court tomorrow charged with aircraft endangerment after a major security alert was sparked at the UK’s biggest airport.

The coroner in the Diana, Princess of Wales, inquest today vowed to "leave no stone unturned" in his efforts to have the paparazzi who pursued her to the scene of her death give evidence.

Troubled rocker Pete Doherty has all but given up on his chances of winning back supermodel girlfriend Kate Moss, but he's determined to honour a promise he made to her to kick his heroin habit.

A teenager shot in the head beside her dying friend Mary-Ann Leneghan told a British court today that she had been the victim of a potentially fatal arson attack just a short time beforehand.

A former senior figure in the Yukos oil company who was wanted by the Russian government on fraud charges will not be extradited, a judge ruled today.

MARKETING and distribution specialist DCC took a step closer to landing a €23 million windfall yesterday when a court in Taiwan ordered a local company to hand over damages awarded last year by a British judge.

A curate took her husband to a police station after he was found sexually grooming a 12-year-old girl over the internet, a British court heard today.

A Malaysian court in Kuala Lumpur has quashed a London casino’s bid to recover a gambling debt of more than 7 million ringgit (€1.47m) racked up by a senior politician in the country’s ruling party.

Swiss chocolate giant Nestle cannot trademark its slogan Have a Break because it lacks specific character, a top European court adviser said today.

English hooligans were tonight warned they will serve jail terms dished out by Portuguese courts after an apparent blunder saw one ringleader escape his sentence.

AN INVESTIGATION into Britain’s richest underworld figures has found that the richest drug dealer and smuggler are Irish.

Two men were today due to appear in British court over separate offences under Britain's Terrorism Act.