A teenager has been arrested after a 16-year-old boy died following reports of a disturbance at a beach in Ayrshire. Police are appealing for witnesses who were at Irvine Beach on Saturday to come ...

JERSEY does not have enough places for children in care, and those it has are not always good enough, a lawyer has said, after it was revealed that eight places are due to be lost in the coming months ...

THE Education Minister has warned that the fight against online harms facing children cannot be solved by schools alone, as he ruled out a blanket ban on mobile phones in schools and called for a ...

A man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of Co Kerry farmer Michael Gaine. The 56-year-old was reported missing from his home near Kenmare on March 21. Following extensive searches over the ...

Police have been granted more time to question a second man arrested in connection with suspected arson attacks on properties linked to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. Counter-terror officers ...

Tributes have been paid to the two firefighters killed in a fire at a former RAF base by their local rugby club, which said it will “carry their memories in our hearts into every game”. Firefighters ...

A suicide bomber in the Somali capital on Sunday targeted young recruits waiting to register at a military camp, killing at least 13 and wounding 21 others, witnesses said. Mogadishu has been ...

US transportation officials have launched an investigation into why a Mexican navy tall ship hit the Brooklyn Bridge in a collision that snapped the vessel’s three masts, killed two crew members and ...

Romanians were voting on Sunday in a tense presidential runoff between a hard-right nationalist and a pro-Western centrist in a high-stakes election rerun that could determine the geopolitical ...

German police were searching for a man who attacked and injured at least five people in the western city of Bielefeld early on Sunday. Police said three people suffered serious injuries and were being ...

Israel’s military on Sunday announced the start of “extensive” new ground operations in the Gaza Strip. The statement came a day after Israel launched a new offensive in the Palestinian territory of ...

The UK Government should reconsider allowing a second independence referendum if there is an “overwhelming desire” for it in Scotland, Michael Gove has said. The Tory grandee was part of successive ...