The US military has released a video it said showed Iran's Revolutionary Guard removing an unexploded limpet mine from one of the oil tankers targeted near the Strait of Hormuz.

An off-duty police officer has been praised after chasing off four armed raiders while dressed only in his boxer shorts.

Some say Samcro disappointed at Down Royal, where he was picked off by the fitter Bedrock (Rachael Blackmore), but Kennedy won’t be hanging around today, writes Ruby Walsh

Two sailors and their dogs have been rescued by the US Navy after more than five months lost at sea in the vast Pacific Ocean.

A suspect deliberately drove a car at police outside Buckingham Palace and then "reached for a 4ft sword", the Metropolitan Police have said.

A terrorist bomb-maker who infiltrated the British military should receive a tougher sentence, a former armed forces minister has said.

The officer leading the Grenfell Tower fire investigation has said police are determined to return those who died to their families, in a statement released four weeks after the tragedy.

The families of victims of the Grenfell Tower fire have been told at a meeting with a coroner and the Met Police that their relatives may not be identified until the end of the year.

A search and rescue mission to find seven US sailors missing after an American destroyer collided with a merchant ship in waters off Japan has ended after bodies were found.

Latest: The investigations at Grenfell Tower have led police to believe the "number of people missing, but as yet unaccounted for" has risen from 58, the Metropolitan Police said.

A US destroyer has arrived back in its home port after colliding with a container ship four times its size, leaving seven sailors missing.

Latest: Twelve people have died and more are feared dead this evening after a huge fire destroyed a tower block in west London.

The Head of the Australian Federal Police has told an international conference in Ireland that the age profile of victims of child abuse is getting younger.

A weapons-obsessed student is facing years behind bars for planting a home-made bomb on a busy Tube train.

A moving story about a troop of heroic Irish soldiers on a mission in the Congo was the big winner at this year’s Irish Film and Television Awards, scooping three prestigious gongs.

Thirteen football fans have been arrested after violent clashes erupted between rival supporters watching a derby match in England.

Sean O’Riordan explores the arrival of American navy fleets in Cork Harbour during the First World War and their subsequent impact on the local infrastructure, economy, and society.

A coroner is to issue summonses for several key witnesses who failed to attend a joint inquest yesterday into the deaths of two men in a house fire.

You might have spotted the USS Porter on your travels around Cobh this weekend.

Dealers of so-called legal highs in the UK could move to the ‘dark web’ as a blanket ban on the drugs comes into force later this week, a senior police officer has warned.

Justin Kurzel’s version of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (15A) opens with an extraordinarily vivid battle scene, as loyal Macbeth (Michael Fassbender) goes to war on behalf of King Duncan (David Thewlis).

The Naval Service will extend its humanitarian operations in the Mediterranean Sea until the end of November and will send a third ship on the EU-led mission.

The stories of Irishmen who served in WWII are deeply moving says Geoffrey Roberts

The Tunisia beach massacre is linked to a previous terror attack in the country, British police believe.

If wind or rain had whipped up before the LÉ Niamh reached a wooden barge crammed with more than 500 migrants, the death toll onboard would probably have been far higher.

It is little wonder that the father of broadcaster and actress Gerry McLoughlin was a war hero. Gerry, who died early yesterday morning after a long battle with cancer, played many a heroine in her time, most of it on the stage of the Everyman Palace theatre in Cork.

A unique experiment by Naval Service volunteers and a medical expert on how to deal with casualties who have been in the water for some time could save countless lives worldwide.

History will be made this morning when the Naval Service will for the first time aid in an overseas humanitarian mission.

Police officers in Los Angeles have reportedly shot and killed a homeless man in a struggle over an officer's weapon, according to the Los Angeles Times newspaper.

Two Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers were seriously injured when they were shot at a casino yesterday.

One person has been killed and two others injured in a shooting at a shopping centre in central Florida, US police said.

Islamic cleric Abu Hamza has been sentenced to life in prison for plots to kidnap tourists in Yemen in 1998 and build a terrorist training camp in Oregon.

It's the social media sensation that presidents, taosigh, astronauts, sportstars and even grannies couldn't resist, says Kelly O'Brien

US law enforcement agencies are a long way from being able to effectively track threats of the kind a gunman posted on Instagram before his execution-style murder of two New York City policemen last weekend.

A number of people have been found dead inside a house in Denver, Colorado.

A student has opened fire in a US high school cafeteria, killing at least one person and wounding four other students, officials said. The gunman also died in the attack.

The violent past of a man who has admitted killing seven women in Indiana has emerged.

The son of US vice president Joe Biden was discharged from the US Navy reserve earlier this year after testing positive for cocaine.

A body has been found by UK police searching for missing teenager Alice Gross, Scotland Yard has said.

UK detectives investigating the disappearance of missing teenager Alice Gross will continue searching an "area of interest" in a park.