Mary Lou McDonald said the incoming government in Dublin must also take ‘urgent’ steps to start planning for unity.

No 10 said the plans were about “giving power from Westminster to local leaders” but also about tackling the “waste” from multiple layers of government. Angela Rayner, the Housing, Communities and ...

The Welsh dancer had made a return to competing on the BBC One show this year after undergoing treatment for breast cancer.

Ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad says he had no plans to leave the country after the fall of Damascus a week ago but the Russian military evacuated him after their base in western Syria came under ...

Simon Harris was speaking after Israel announced it would be closing its Dublin embassy, accusing Ireland of ‘crossing every red line’.

A student accused of the murder of physical trainer Amie Gray on Bournemouth beach told police that he was not responsible and he would not “attack someone for no reason”, a court has heard.

Grammy-nominated rapper Slowthai has been cleared of raping two women at a house party after a gig. The rapper, whose real name is Tyron Frampton, 29, and his co-accused Alex Blake-Walker, 27, were ...

Expert spelunker Ottavia Piana is blocked in a deep inside the Bueno Fonteno cave near the Italian city of Bergamo.

Stephen Cottrell is due to take on many of the soon-to-step-down Archbishop of Canterbury’s official functions temporarily from early January.

Critics of the Beijing government warned that the activities of the suspect known as H6 were the ‘tip of the iceberg’.

Oldham Jobcentre has been temporarily closed, with the government assuring people that services will not be affected.

A 12-year-old girl has appeared in court charged with the manslaughter of pensioner Bhim Kohli, who died after an alleged attack while walking his dog in a park near his home. Mr Kohli, aged 80, died ...