A far-right extremist screamed "This is for Britain" when he killed MP Jo Cox in a "cowardly" attack at the height of the EU referendum campaign, a court heard.

To his supporters, Taoiseach Enda Kenny is an underrated politician who deserves more credit for saving Ireland from financial ruin. For his detractors a series of public gaffes — the latest of which have occurred this week — mean his political limitations are rarely far from view.

You might have thought that during his recent visit to the UK, US president Barack Obama was solely concerned with convincing British voters that their country would be far better off remaining in the European Union. However, other issues made it on to the agenda in the discussions between the US president and his UK counterpart, David Cameron.

On September 16, 2002, a group of 19 people, who were born in the Chagos Archipelago, picked up their suitcases from the carousel at Gatwick Airport and, having passed through immigration, walked into the South Terminal.

Downing Street has been forced to fend off claims that David Cameron participated in a bizarre student initiation ritual as a simmering row with a major Tory party donor erupted into the open.

Coe v Ovett. Unless you were hung up on some British class divide thing, or had a bit of a Brideshead Revisited phobia, you had to be a Coe man, didn’t you?

The actress announced the new academic centre, titled the Centre on Women, Peace and Security, at the London School of Economics (LSE) yesterday.

A former Conservative supporter in the UK called Arron Banks has donated £1m to Ukip after William Hague called him a “nobody”, while a Tory veteran's son has said he will join the party.

David Cameron is "not being straight with the British people" over the cost and complexity of constitutional reform, Ed Balls said.

Brad Pitt has flashed his wedding ring at a museum – just days after tying the knot in France.

Britain is continuing to export tens of millions of pounds worth of arms and other dual-use military equipment to Russia despite concerns Moscow is arming separatist rebels in Ukraine, MPs have warned.

The king and queen of the Netherlands will lead mourners as the first victims of the Malaysia Airlines MH17 disaster are repatriated from the Ukraine today.

Three European powers and the US have confirmed that their foreign ministers will join talks this weekend on Iran’s nuclear programme in an effort to advance stalled negotiations.

David Cameron’s "cack-handed" failed bid to block Jean-Claude Juncker’s appointment is a "catastrophe" for Britain, Labour has claimed.

Angelina Jolie said a global summit to end sexual violence must send a message around the world that there is "no disgrace" in being a survivor — "that the shame is on the aggressor".

The Nigerian schoolgirls who remain captives of Boko Haram militants “definitely” face the danger of being raped, a senior United Nations official has said.

Ousted members of Thailand’s former government have turned themselves in to the country’s new military junta, as soldiers forcefully dispersed hundreds of anti-coup activists who defied a ban on large-scale gatherings.

Britain has offered assistance to Nigeria to help respond to the kidnap of about 300 schoolgirls by Islamist militants, Foreign Secretary William Hague has said.

William Hague has insisted damage to the British economy from imposing trade sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine crisis would be a “price worth paying”.

The UK Independence Party has rejected as “nonsense” Tory criticism of the party using an Irish actor in a poster about the impact of immigration on British jobs.

In July 1995, 8,000 men and boys were massacred at Srebrenica. But countless women and girls suffered an equally appalling fate, says Janine di Giovanni.

Spanish government vessels have unlawfully entered British territorial waters around Gibraltar more than 600 times since the start of 2013, according to official figures.

A return to Ireland by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II is looking increasingly likely after the success of President Michael D Higgins’ visit to London.

Western opinion believes almost unanimously that Sunday’s referendum in Crimea was fixed, or at the very least that the result was achieved through intimidation, as vehemently as Russia insists it was a legitimate vote carried out in unquestionable, free circumstances.

President Barack Obama has accused Russia of being “on the wrong side of history” with its military intervention in Ukraine and said he’s examining diplomatic and economic steps to isolate Moscow.

Russian forces controlling the strategic region of Crimea have demanded that the crew of two Ukrainian warships must surrender, according to Ukrainian sources.

By Ann Cahill, Europe Correspondent

US secretary of state John Kerry yesterday condemned Russia’s “incredible act of aggression” in Ukraine and threatened “very serious repercussions” from the US and other countries, including sanctions to isolate Russia economically.

Britain has pulled out of preparatory talks due to be held in the coming days for the G8 summit in Sochi over Russia’s decision to take military action in Ukraine.

Britain yesterday said it plans to use a visit by German chancellor Angela Merkel this week to try to persuade Berlin to support measures to discourage people from moving within the EU to tap welfare benefits.

Iran has started to shut down its most sensitive nuclear work as part of a landmark deal struck with world powers, state media said today.

William Hague has dismissed a bid to trigger prosecutions of British politicians and senior military figures over alleged war crimes in Iraq.

Rebel forces in South Sudan must accept that “taking power by force cannot work”, the country’s foreign minister said as the two sides in a bloody conflict prepared for peace talks.

Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi will meet schoolchildren today during a brief visit to Belfast.

The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously last night to secure and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile, in a landmark decision aimed at taking poison gas off the battlefield in the escalating conflict.

Kenyan security forces remain locked in a stand-off with terrorists in a Nairobi shopping centre nearly 24 hours after the gang opened fire in the building, killing at least 39 people.

In the US, France and Britain, extremely rich, middle-aged and elderly men, in classically-cut, expensive suits, keep telling the ‘ordinary folk’ that we must attack Syria to punish the Al Assad regime for crimes against humanity.

Russell Brand hit out at the GQ Awards sponsors Hugo Boss claiming the company's founder was a "Nazi".

Spain has been accused of introducing an export ban on construction materials destined for Gibraltar.

Britain “cannot allow diplomatic paralysis to be a shield” for President Bashar Assad, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said.

Military action against Syria may be the only remaining response to the suspected large-scale chemical weapons attack by the Assad regime, British Foreign Secretary William Hague has said.

World leaders have come under pressure to take concrete action after hundreds of people were killed in a chemical weapons attack in Syria.