Theresa May will call for a "renewed" special relationship between Britain and America as she becomes the first world leader to meet Donald Trump since his inauguration as president last week.

A second legal bid could soon be launched in a bid to derail Brexit, this time in the Irish courts.

Labour can only win elections if it reaches beyond its own activists, Sadiq Khan has said in a clear message to party leader Jeremy Corbyn.

The entire country went a little bit sports-mad this summer, so it comes as no surprise to hear Rugby World Cup 2015 is the phrase people in Ireland searched online for the most this year.

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Liz Kendall has launched a fresh attack on Jeremy Corbyn as voting closed in the Labour leadership election but said the party must accept the result if he wins.

Jeremy Corbyn has come under fire for saying it was a “tragedy” that Osama bin Laden was killed by the United States rather than being put on trial.

Tony Blair has warned Labour supporters to reject the “Alice in Wonderland” appeal of Jeremy Corbyn or risk driving the party into an abyss.

David Cameron has warned that IS must be destroyed in its Syrian heartland as Labour signalled that it was ready to back further military action in the wake of Tunisia beach attack.

US: These wedding dresses have it all — long trains, full, layered skirts, floral appliqués, ruffles, and sparkling bodices. Their detailing is the same as you see on designer gowns made of silk and lace. But these dresses are not designer. They’re made of toilet paper.

No vote campaigners “absolutely believe” the yes side has “already lost” the same-sex marriage referendum, despite “bullying, name-calling, and a shocking campaign of intimidation” by the Government and the media.

The Taoiseach said a Yes vote in Friday's same sex marriage referendum will obliterate discrimination and give gay people hope.

Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain’s anti-EU UK Independence Party, withdrew his resignation after tendering it last week over his failure to win a seat in the British parliament.

Apprentice star Alan Sugar has quit the UK's Labour Party – blaming their “negative business policies” and anti-enterprise approach.

An emboldened David Cameron moved to take Britain in a new right-wing direction as the defeated Labour Party turned in on itself for going too far left in the election campaign.

After a week in which the general election was the only topic of conversation in England, the red flag is still flying at half-mast for Liverpool despite a hard-earned point against the blues of Chelsea who have already won the Premier League by a huge majority.

Smashed and shaken by the sheer scale of its surprise election defeat, the British Labour Party now faces into months of soul searching as it chooses a new leader.

A triumphant David Cameron tried to heal wounds ripped open in an aggressive election campaign by pledging that he would rule Britain as a “one-nation Tory”.

London’s Ftse 100 index was 2% higher yesterday after the unexpected Conservative election victory added over £40bn to market prices.

By defying history to pull off a spectacular election victory David Cameron may yet have set in train events that will soon consign the United Kingdom itself to the history books.

After being ridiculed for so long as the missing triplet from Wallace and Gromit, Mr Miliband suddenly found himself attractive, as the ‘Milifan’ craze swept social media.

EVEN if you allow for the vanity that sometimes convinces us that this fleeting moment is the most historically significant, it is still very difficult to imagine that there has been, in the history of this State, a British general election result with the potential to have a greater impact on this island than the Conservatives’ resounding and totally unexpected victory yesterday.

David Cameron has promised the UK “we are on the brink of something special” as he returned to Downing Street as a Prime Minister with a Tory Commons majority for the first time.

The Democratic Unionists are this morning wondering if the post-election shakedown will hand them added influence at Westminster after a Northern Ireland poll that produced a couple of surprises.

David Cameron is preparing for another term as the UK's Prime Minister, as the General Election put his Conservative Party on the brink of securing an absolute majority in the House of Commons.

A radical shake-up of the way Britain votes is on the cards following yesterday’s knife-edge election result.

David Cameron prepares for another term as British Prime Minister, the DUP retains its position as the largest party in the North and Ed Miliband, Nigel Farage and Nick Clegg step down in light of the British Election results. In other news a Dublin man admits to cheating on his wife on live radio and UCD look set to enter the Europa League. Just some of the latest and most read stories on irishexaminer.com.

It’s all been pretty heavy going in terms of the British election so here’s ten election related stories that we're sure will lift your spirits and prove there's only one thing more important than politics ... comedy.

The outcome of the UK's General Election is widely predicted to be a hung parliament, with none of the major parties winning an overall majority.

Will Number 10 Downing Street be home to the Con Man or the Squatter tomorrow night?

The five leaders of the five national political parties sum up in five sentences why voters should back them. Here is what they said (in alphabetical order):

The two men battling to be Britain’s next prime minister traded insults in the last hours of the too-close-to-call campaign by branding each other a conman and a squatter.

Britain is facing into weeks of political deadlock as both main parties seemed set to fall far short of a majority in tomorrow’s election.

Britain is facing weeks of political deadlock as both main parties seemed set to fall far short of a majority in Thursday’s election.

The good news for Labour is Ed Miliband is not nearly as strange in person as he often comes across on TV.

Support for the hard left and hard right is receding across Europe, as voters and political parties inch back towards the centre, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

The neck-and-neck battle to be British prime minister turned increasingly nasty as both main party leaders seized on slip-ups by the other.