A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife after a woman's body was found in a car outside a UK supermarket.

A heavily pregnant woman and her six-year-old daughter have been held at knifepoint by robbers in the UK.

Police in England are appealing for information about the sexual assault of a 58-year-old woman as she walked her dog.

A director of a credit union in Co Limerick, who claimed his Mercedes car was taken from him by a group of men when he went Christmas shopping to the North, yesterday pleaded guilty at Limerick Circuit Court to attempting to make a gain of €52,000 by deception from AXA Insurance Ltd.

A man has been threatened with a machete and robbed inside a bank in the North.

A burglar was caught after his DNA was found on a can of lager he left at the crime scene.

A driver had his car hijacked after stopping to help a man who appeared to be ill at the side of the road.

The Department of Education is set to examine the controversial “casualisation” of working hours for young teachers — which is forcing some to take up second jobs at night to cover their bills — after widespread outrage from the profession.

A burglar who was jailed for breaking into a woman's home returned to the property when he was released from prison in order to repeatedly rape her during a "terrifying ordeal", according to UK police.

Six of the people arrested in the UK in connection with a slavery ring have been released on bail.

Three men who are believed to be victims of slavery have been taken to a place of safety following a series of raids by UK police.

Detectives investigating a shooting in Newry, Co Down have arrested a man.

Twelve men have been arrested after a gang ransacked then tried to set fire to a house in Co Tyrone.

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The PSNI are investigating whether four reports of suspicious approaches to young children in Newtownabbey are linked.

A Facebook page which mocked the Hillsborough football tragedy is being investigated by police in Britain.

A taxi driver who believes he picked up Madeleine McCann the night after she vanished has claimed that Portuguese police ignored his report.

Kate and Gerry McCann will mark the fifth anniversary of their daughter, Madeleine’s, disappearance this week amid renewed hopes she will be found.

A woman in the UK had corrosive liquid thrown at her in a suspected race attack as she walked with her six-month-old baby.

A 15-year-old boy attacked following a beach party continues to fight for life today as detectives in the UK urged witnesses to come forward.

CCTV footage of the moment a car drove into a crowd of revellers outside a British nightclub was today released by police in a bid to trace the driver.

Detectives were today investigating claims that Everton midfielder Marouane Fellaini assaulted a young model at a nightclub.

A new investigation must be set up to examine whether British authorities withheld vital intelligence from detectives hunting the Omagh bombers, a parliamentary report said today.

Fashion designer Alexander McQueen hanged himself in his wardrobe after leaving a note at the scene, an inquest heard today.

PORTUGUESE police believed Madeleine McCann died in her family’s holiday flat and that her parents faked her abduction, a court heard yesterday.

Portuguese police believed Madeleine McCann died in her family’s holiday flat and that her parents faked her abduction, a court heard today.

A libel trial will start today of a former senior Portuguese detective who published a book alleging that Madeleine McCann died inside her parents’ apartment.

Police launched an inquiry tonight into a green “slime” attack on UK Business Secretary Peter Mandelson by a climate change protester.

PORTUGUESE detectives made Madeleine McCann’s parents suspects on the “slightest chance” they could have been involved in her disappearance, a leaked report revealed yesterday.

The death of a 14-year-old boy almost three weeks after he was stabbed marked a new low in Britain’s knife crime crisis tonight.

Portugal’s attorney-general today appeared to pave the way for the authorities to shelve their investigation into Madeleine McCann’s disappearance.

There are no links between the deaths of 14 young people who have been found hanged around one town in just over a year, the local coroner said today.

Portugal’s top policeman has said detectives were “hasty” in making Madeleine McCann’s parents suspects in her disappearance.

Madeleine McCann suspect Robert Murat today denied further claims he was seen near the young girl’s apartment on the night she vanished, a friend said.

Portuguese police want to re-interview the mother of missing Madeleine McCann so they can ask her more than 40 questions she previously refused to answer, it has been reported.

Social workers visited missing Madeleine McCann’s parents at their home in England today to discuss the welfare of the couple’s other two children.

The family of missing Madeleine McCann flew out of Portugal today to return to Britain.

THERE was something almost theatrical about the scenes outside the police station in Portimao yesterday.

Portuguese detectives today accused the mother of missing Madeleine McCann of killing her daughter.

Missing Madeleine McCann’s father arrived at a Portuguese police station today to face fresh questioning over his daughter’s disappearance as his wife Kate, who now believes she could be charged in connection with Madeleine’s death, left the police station after being interviewed separately by officers having been made an “arguida”, or formal suspect, this morning.

Devastating evidence that loyalist paramilitary informers were allowed to get away with a series of murders in the North will be revealed today.

A POLICE Ombudsman inquiry into a series of loyalist murders in Belfast in the 1990s took a fresh twist yesterday with the arrest of two former RUC detectives.

POLICE in London were last night preparing to dig up a convicted paedophile’s garden following a tip that two children might have been buried there.

Police Ombudsman investigators who questioned an ex-detective as part of a widening inquiry into alleged security force collusion with loyalist paramilitary killers wanted publicity without any hard evidence, it was claimed tonight.