Funding for the Causeway Coast and Glens and Mid Southwest Growth Deals have been paused pending the spending review.

The Israeli military said it has struck 300 targets in Lebanon as it steps up the pressure on the Hezbollah militant group.

Shehraz Sarwar was acquitted after a district judge said he could not be sure the 46-year-old intended to cause injury.

Rescuers have recovered the bodies of more workers killed in an explosion at a coal mine in eastern Iran, bringing the death ...

Octopuses are usually considered to be solitary creatures, but new research suggests they might sometimes socialise with fish in order to share the responsibility of hunting. The findings broaden our ...

The murder of a schoolboy in south-east London is a “stark and sobering reminder of the danger of zombie-style knives” ahead of an incoming ban on them, police say. The 15-year-old was found with a ...

The Friedkin Group has reached agreement to purchase Farhad Moshiri’s majority stake in Everton. The group, led by the American billionaire Dan Friedkin, had entered a period of exclusivity to ...

A helicopter and a vessel carrying coast guard officers take part in a search and rescue operation after a boat carrying migrants ran into trouble off the coast of the eastern Aegean Sea island of ...

Oxford University chancellor hopeful William Hague has warned that tuition fees could be on the rise. The 63-year-old was leader of the Conservative Party and the Leader of the Opposition from 1997 to ...

Joanna Johnson started to break down in tears as she told the PA news agency how 50 neighbours turned up at Moreteyne’s Retreat in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, at 8pm on Sunday in response to an ...

Retired members of the Unite union criticised the Chancellor’s decision to cut the payment, saying ‘the poorest among us will die this winter’.

Two Islamic State extremists who planned the murder of an imam referred to him as “Voldemort” who was engaging in “black magic”, a public inquiry heard.