Police in Northern Ireland are investigating a potential Islamist terrorist link to a stabbing in Belfast earlier this month, the PA news agency understands. Religious ideology is one of a number of ...

A member of the public was removed from a council meeting – after telling the committee’s chair: “Stop being rude.” ...

Hamas said it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four dual-national hostages who died in captivity.

Several councillors have registered their dissent at the decision by Argyll and Bute Council that Tobermory South is the preferred site for the ...

The son of an Oxfam volunteer who was struck and killed by a bus on the world’s longest guided busway said it was “such a preventable accident”, a court heard. Three people died in separate incidents ...

Claudiu Carol Kondor, 42, was delivering parcels in Leeds last year when “career criminal” Mark Ross, 32, climbed into his van and drove away ...

Sir Martyn Oliver, chief inspector of Ofsted, said giving parents the information they need in a clear and accessible way was a ‘must-have’.

The Royal College of Nursing’s governing council voted in 2009 to move to a neutral stance on assisted dying for terminally-ill people while doctors’ union the BMA shifted from a position against ...

Jessie Holmes, a former reality television star, has won the longest-ever Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska. Holmes was first to the finish line in the Gold Rush town of Nome, on the Bering Sea ...

Community groups have been invited to speak to council officers about the possibility of reinstating the shrubbery space near Oban’s Corran Halls.

Serbia’s capital Belgrade is on edge ahead of a major rally against President Aleksandar Vucic’s populist government this weekend, as authorities ramp up efforts to dissuade people from attending.

A man from Helensburgh who had a life-changing operation to make his nose "normal" has found the confidence to fulfil his ...