VE Day often overshadows VJ Day, descendants of Second World War veterans have said during a screening of their wartime letters. Passers-by paused to watch recordings of loved ones’ reading excerpts ...

Some of the 800 National Guard members deployed by US president Donald Trump began arriving in the nation’s capital on Tuesday. It comes after the White House ordered federal forces to take over the ...

James ‘Jim’ Wren survived the sinking of HMS Repulse in December 1941 after it was torpedoed in the South China Sea.

A community in Co Down has been “shaken and upset deeply” by the attack on a priest and the death of a man at the weekend, Bishop Alan McGuckian has said. Father John Murray was struck on the head in ...

The Chancellor insisted Labour had been ‘creating more jobs’ since entering office despite vacancy numbers declining over the last quarter.

More than 50,000 migrants have arrived in the UK after crossing the English Channel since Labour won the 2024 general election. Home Office figures show 474 migrants arrived by small boat on Monday ...

A New York resident has admitted he tried to smuggle protected turtles worth more than one million US dollars from the US to Hong Kong by shipping them in boxes labelled “plastic animal toys”.

Wildfires burned in parts of Europe on Tuesday as millions of people across the continent struggled to adapt to the new reality: record summer heat.

James Bubb, who now identifies as a woman named Gwyn Samuels, was violent towards his alleged victim during sex, the court heard.

A man in his 40s is thought to have died after being hit over the head with a large stone during an altercation on the Isle of Sheppey.

A US woman whose gun jammed while she was disguised in a niqab during a failed assassination attempt in Birmingham has been found guilty of conspiracy to murder. Aimee Betro flew to the UK before she ...

The 45-year-old US citizen claimed to be in love with co-conspirator Mohammed Nabil Nazir, who joined her on a road trip after the bungled shooting.