The apparent suspect later shot himself dead as police approached his car.

Police said they have arrested a 57-year-old man over the death of Fritz von Weizsaecker at the Schlosspark-Klinik after a man jumped up from the audience and attacked him.

Essex Police are investigating lines of inquiry to “establish whether there is a wider conspiracy involved” in the deaths of 39 people found in a lorry in Essex.

A suspected attacker understood to have accidentally shot himself as he pursued his alleged victim has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.

Two men have been arrested by gardaí following the discovery of a bomb under a serving PSNI officer’s car in Belfast.

The 15-year-old’s body was identified by the Quoirin family today, hours after it was discovered following a large-scale search operation.

Around 90 rescue workers involved in the search for missing Irish teenager Nora Quoirin will today focus their efforts on the surrounding jungle and mountain area near the Dusan resort, where she was last seen.

Nóra, whose parents are Irish and French, has special needs and was last seen on Sunday morning south of Kuala Lumpur.

A 15-year-old girl from London, who is travelling on an Irish passport, has gone missing in Malaysia, a family friend has said.

Police on the island of Madagascar are investigating whether a British teenager deliberately threw herself to her death after escaping from a tiny two-door plane as it flew over the savanna.

Police officers who responded to a hotel disco crush that killed three teenagers are to face investigation after it emerged they initially withdrew from the scene.

The 2015 Melbourne Cup was one of the most memorable in the history of “the race that stops a nation”.

"Without any provocation police officers hit Arsenal fans with their batons, amongst them women, children and older supporters."

A City worker who posted pictures of an intern on porn websites in a "perverted campaign" against her is facing jail.

Police in England are investigating a possible hate crime after reports that anti-Islamic letters were posted across the country.

Police are conducting raids in eastern Slovakia on houses linked to members of Italian mafia, after it emerged a journalist was writing a story about them before he was shot dead last week.

A policeman who discovered the body of a murdered 83-year-old dog walker said it looked like he had been attacked by his own pet, a court heard.

A Moscow cinema that had been showing a satirical film about Soviet leader Josef Stalin in defiance of an official Russian government ban cancelled further screenings today.

Police have shown up at a Moscow cinema that screened a satirical film about Soviet leader Josef Stalin in defiance of an official Russian government ban.

Police in Belfast have recovered a quantity of weapons and ammunition in an operation targeting paramilitaries.

Tanzanian police are holding one of two women accused of kissing in a video widely circulated on social media.

Cyclists lay down on Tuesday evening outside the Dáil to protest at the unsafety of our cycling infrastructure, with 13 cyclists killed on our roads this year so far, writes Victoria White

Police have launched an investigation after a private image of a female officer was shared online.

The investigation into a farmhouse fire in Wales that is thought to have claimed the lives of a father and five young children could take many months, police have warned.

An academic who had access to one diocesan archive reports accounts of physical abuse and medical neglect and argues that the files are not accurately reflected in the McAleese Report into the Laundries, writes Conall Ó Fátharta.

Several members of a family are feared dead after a blaze ripped through a farmhouse in rural Wales.

A murder investigation has started in the UK after a teenage boy was stabbed to death, the Metropolitan Police said.

"It is no exaggeration to say those who witnessed this incident will have been deeply traumatised by what they saw.

The North’s police chief is facing an investigation into alleged misconduct.

The attacker was killed by soldiers after Sunday's stabbings, which were claimed by the Islamic State group.

Five people are in custody after an apparent failed bombing attempt in a chic Paris neighbourhood.

Isolated communities, segregation and unregulated schooling in the UK are a "breeding ground" for extremism and future jihadists, a counter-terrorism police chief has warned.

A toddler found dead after officers were called to a domestic incident had suffered multiple stab wounds, police investigating his murder have revealed.

Protesters opposing a right-wing "freedom rally" in liberal San Francisco have claimed victory after the event was cancelled when city chiefs walled off a park.

Police in the UK are appealing for mobile phone footage of a supermarket raid after the death of a suspected robber who was restrained by members of the public.

Several people - including a police woman - have been injured in the incident at a railway station.

Police did not identify the explosive device but said they were treating the incident as an act of terrorism.

Police are treating an explosion at Manchester Arena as a terrorist attack, believed to have been carried out by a suicide bomber.

Police in England have seized three supercars after they were seen racing on the M1.

A YouTube video blogger who climbed Liverpool's big wheel has prompted concerns over "exceptionally dangerous" free-climbing pursuits, Merseyside Police said.

French police have released the father of the Paris airport attacker, who was shot and killed while taking a soldier hostage.

Latest: The mother of Danielle McLaughlin, who has been found dead in a Goa tourist resort, has paid tribute to her daughter saying she will be "sadly missed".

Two friends are to be sentenced next month for lying about crashing a Lamborghini Gallardo into shops and causing more than £100k (€114k) of damage.

A one month-old baby who was taken by car thieves in South Africa has been found alive.