A TV worker who says she was raped by Russell Brand has insisted she “wasn’t a giddy schoolgirl” during her encounter with the star in a central London bar. The woman claims Brand groped her breasts ...

An entire generation was almost wiped out when 150,000 tonnes of coal waste slid down the hillside before engulfing Pantglas Junior School in 1966.

Some 160 schools in Northern Ireland have received “Islamist” bomb threats which are not being treated as viable, Stormont Education minister Paul Givan has said. Speaking to ...

Billionaire Elon Musk has pledged to give one share of his company SpaceX to “every kid in America”. The offer arrived a day after artificial intelligence company Anthropic announced in a social media ...

The UK’s first subsea cable plant in the Scottish Highlands intended to “tackle bottlenecks” in the transmission of ...

Political activist Tommy Robinson used “bully-boy, intimidatory tactics” to frighten two journalists, forcing them to employ security or leave home, a court has heard.

Police feared that dissident republicans would attack officers with guns if they had facilitated the Drumcree parade passing along the Garvaghy Road in Portadown, Co Armagh, the High Court in Belfast ...

Danielle Smith said patients were transferred from Canadian Forces Base Wainwright to four hospitals across Alberta.

The Canadian prime minister said the families of those killed had been notified and that the situation was still evolving.

More than 160 offshore workers are set to go on strike, with a union claiming it could leave UK fuel supplies from the North Sea disrupted. The workers from oil and gas operator Apache are due to down ...

An Australian politician is in a critical condition after she was struck by a car in an apparently deliberate act, prime minister Anthony Albanese said. Federal independent legislator Helen Haines, 65 ...

The family was killed in an arson attack on their home in the Birchwood estate on Tuesday. Two other children, aged six and 14, remain in a critical condition in hospital following the attack. The ...