Gardaí have launched an investigation into the discovery of skeletal remains in Co Wexford.

Remains discovered near the entrance to a stately home have been confirmed as those of a mother who vanished 15 years ago.

South Korean salvage crews have found what are presumed to be the remains of one of the missing victims of a 2014 ferry disaster that killed 304 passengers, officials said.

Police have renewed their appeal for a mother to come forward to ensure her well-being following the discovery of an infant girl's remains.

Excavations at other mother and baby homes are being demanded after the discovery of “significant quantities” of infant remains at Tuam.

Human remains found in a well in Crete are those of a British holidaymaker who went missing more than a decade ago, police have confirmed.

The remains of Jacob Wetterling, an 11-year-old boy kidnapped from a rural US road nearly 27 years ago, have been found.

A garden in South Dublin is to be searched by gardaí next week for the remains of two newborn babies allegedly killed and buried there.

A couple who “unwittingly” helped the murderer of Becky Watts by hiding her remains in their garden shed have been jailed.

A child whose decomposed body found in a suitcase in southern Australia roused the suspicions of police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has been identified as the daughter of a woman whose skeletal remains were found in a forest 750 miles away.

Hidden remains of an extraordinary neolithic monument that could be unique in the world have been found buried beneath the ground a mile from Stonehenge.

After seven decades stored in jars and test tubes in a French medical school, the remains of several Holocaust victims were finally buried.

The remains of a Soviet fighter-bomber plane and two crew members shot down by Germans in 1945 have been found in a river in central Poland amid extremely low water levels associated with a drought, a museum official said.

A torso has been found washed up on a beach in England.

The Deputy State Pathologist has carried out some tests on the remains of a man found in Dublin this morning.

The remains of a man has been found in Dublin.

Human remains have been found on reclaimed bogland in the Co Meath during a search for one of the Disappeared.

The remains of all 150 victims of the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps will finally be turned over to their families for burial now that investigators say they have completed their identification process.

Human remains that may be those of missing student Karen Buckley have been discovered on a farm in north Glasgow.