Brunei Darussalam will bring into effect a new law next week which will punish homosexual intercourse and adultery with death by stoning.

Last year, at age 31, Mohammed bin Salman became Saudi Arabia’s crown prince.

They’ve called time on 50 Ways To Kill Your Mammy, but while Baz Ashmawy has other TV projects in the pipeline, he’s determined to work with his mother Nancy again – it’s just not the same without her, he tells Esther McCarthy

A lonely hearts couple have been jailed for plotting an Islamic State-inspired bomb or ricin attack over the Christmas holidays.

A woman who was caught up in the Grenfell Tower fire at three months pregnant has revealed she gave birth to possibly the disaster's youngest survivor.

Crash investigators in England are trying to piece together what caused a collision which killed six - as one of the victims was named as a loving father.

A man in England accused of killing his two young children at their home is to go on trial over their alleged double murder.

The older brother of a French extremist who killed seven people in a series of attacks on a Jewish school and soldiers is going on trial accused of complicity in the 2012 shooting spree which in retrospect marked the start of an era of home-grown jihadi violence in France.

Reducing barriers to the labour market for those leaving prison would assist employers to find new talent and help cut reoffending, a conference has heard.

A judge has sentenced a minority Shiite Muslim to death for sharing blasphemous content about Islam on social media, a government prosecutor said.

Ireland’s blasphemy laws are embarrassing and should be removed through a constitutional referendum, according to Health Minister Simon Harris.

For Pakistan-born, Aslam, who was brought up and educated in the north of England, paper is the “strongest material in the world. 

Desperate Syrians fleeing the devastating war in their country are finding refuge in sub-Saharan Africa.

THOUGH it has never held a less-than-prominent place in modern western thinking, the turbulent political and social events of the past few years, perhaps exemplified most clearly of all by the tragic and horrific attack on the Charlie Hebdo office, have moved the issue of Free Speech — and by extension, freedom of expression — to the very forefront of our consciousness.

Five years ago, Mohammed Thabir arrived in Ireland with his parents and four sisters, via Sudan, having fled war-torn Somalia.

The Government should “regulate mosques” and gardaí should have the power to conduct random, unannounced checks on them, according to a Muslim cleric.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility after a Syrian blew himself up outside a wine bar, injuring 15 people.

There was a whiff of box office, writes Larry Ryan.

Cork City’s European campaign can now be called an odyssey.

In a refugee camp outside Athens, Victoria White meets people fleeing the horrors of war in Syria, but who still try to live a normal life, including a young woman who has just married    

An autistic man beat his mother to death because he could not cope with the stress of moving home, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

It is the west’s blind myopia that leads it to go to war in the Middle East, with disastrous consequences, argues JP O’Malley on reading an account of Islamism which shows that, as an ideology, it is growing further apart.

A Jerusalem court has handed a life sentence to the main attacker in the killing of a Palestinian teenager in 2014 whose death helped spark a chain of events that led to that year’s Gaza war.

Exxon Mobil was demoted from the top credit rating by Standard & Poor’s for the first time since the Great Depression as the collapse of the biggest oil-market rally in history strangled cash flows.

Two female backpackers from Europe were savagely attacked on a remote Australian beach by a travelling companion they had met hours earlier, police said.

A man has been arrested by police in Australia charged with attempting to rape and murder two female backpackers on a remote beach.

I must be hanging around in the wrong circles.

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has declared that he is no longer bound by agreements signed with Israel.

Human rights lawyer Amal Clooney has said she is “absolutely delighted” that the Egyptian president has pardoned two journalists for Al-Jazeera English.

”I would love to go to Ireland. I speak English. I have a degree in biology. I could be a good citizen for your country but your government won’t release information for Syrians. It takes so long to get all the papers for Ireland and we are desperate.

Thousands of refugees yesterday streamed into Germany — many travelling through Austria from Hungary where they had been stranded against their will for days — while EU governments argue over how to respond.

Norma Costello travels to Keleti train station in Budapest, and speaks to some desperate Afghan children who crossed six countries only to encounter more hostility and police aggression.

Mohammed Ali Zonoobi bows his head as the priest pours holy water over his black hair. “Will you break away from Satan and his evil deeds?” pastor Gottfried Martens asks the Iranian refugee. “Will you break away from Islam?”

Pamela Geller said she planned similar contests.

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History is repeating itself in reverse as immigrants to Ireland begin changing their names to westernised versions.

Mohammed Emwazi, the Briton identified in reports as Islamic State executioner ‘Jihadi John’, has been described as “extremely kind” and “extremely gentle” by a man who has known him since 2009.

The retrial of two Al-Jazeera English journalists who face terror-related charges in a case widely criticised by human rights organisations and media groups has been postponed until March 8.

The retrial of two Al-Jazeera English journalists who face terror-related charges in a case widely criticised by human rights groups is set to begin today in Egypt.

Lars Vilks, the Swedish cartoonist understood to have been a primary target of one of last weekend’s deadly Copenhagen shootings, has rounded on Danish police, whom he claimed had vastly underestimated the terror threat posed to the city.

The suspected gunman who carried out the deadly Copenhagen attacks was a 22 year old with a history of violence and may have been inspired by the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris, Danish authorities have said.

A suspected gunman killed by police after two deadly shootings in Copenhagen was 22 years old and had a background in criminal gangs.