The British government faced growing calls tonight to disclose more details about the return to prison of one of James Bulger’s killers.

Jack Tweed was today charged with one count of rape, Scotland Yard have said.

Jack Tweed has been arrested over allegations of sexual assault on a teenage girl.

Actor Colin Firth will address a crowd of poverty and green campaigners today in the UK after a screening of his new political film.

Reality TV star Jade Goody has cancer and will be flying back to the UK for more tests and treatment, her spokesman confirmed.

EUROPEANS only learned to stomach milk within the last 7,000 years, research suggests.

SEVEN Portlaoise schoolgirls have set themselves up as an international arms firm successfully brokering deals from South Korean and South African dealers in a bid to expose Ireland's lack of brokering controls.

Showbiz stars including former Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker today condemned London Mayor Ken Livingstone’s suspension as an “outrage against democracy”.

The Bulmers International Comedy Festival returns to Dublin for its second year with American Denis Leary confirmed to appear in his only European performance.

IT was claimed yesterday that the thought of Maxine Carr going on a wild night out may have pushed jealous and possessive Ian Huntley over the edge on the evening he killed Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman.

MAXINE CARR cheated on Ian Huntley with a teenager on the weekend Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman died in her house.

THE Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) yesterday launched a High Court bid to block the possibility of Britain going to war against Iraq.

TV prankster Dom Joly has quit Channel 4 in a shock move to the BBC in an exclusive two-year deal.