A “significant concern” was raised around missing eight-year-old Kyran Durnin in August, Ireland’s Child and Family Agency has said. The former family home of the child in Dundalk, Co Louth was ...

A book about preserving languages which are going extinct has won the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2024.

Helen Maguire urged Defence Secretary John Healey to quickly repurpose frozen assets to bolster Ukraine’s war chest.

Police searching for missing mother Victoria Taylor have found a body in the River Derwent, close to where she was last seen. Ms Taylor, 34, disappeared from her home in Malton, North Yorkshire, on ...

Jaroslaw Rossa, 42, and his sons Filip, 15, and Dominic, seven, died when the Toyota he was driving was involved in a head-on crash with a Skoda near Tebay services, Cumbria, on Tuesday October 15.

The former boss of fashion giant Abercrombie & Fitch and his British partner have been arrested and face sex trafficking charges. A spokesman for federal prosecutors in the US said ex-chief executive ...

Baywatch star Michael Newman has died at the age of 68, his friend, director Matthew Felker, has confirmed. Newman played himself as a lifeguard and was the third most regular actor on Baywatch after ...

The Scottish Government cannot and will not provide extra funding for the Glasgow-based Commonwealth Games if it is required, John Swinney has said. The First Minister spoke at an event in the city on ...

After presenting the news, Myrie, 60, will join the results show in Washington DC, hosted by Perry and Somaskanda, who will welcome BBC US special correspondent Katty Kay and BBC News presenter ...

Former president Barack Obama and vice presidential nominee Tim Walz are hosting rallies while the Republicans held events to encourage voting.

Scotland’s First Minister has hinted that the already scaled-back programme for the 2026 Commonwealth Games could be cut further if costs spiral.

Around 1,100 inmates are expected to be freed in a second wave of early releases under the Government’s policy to free up prison space.