The swashbuckling image of smugglers playing cat and mouse with the authorities has more in common with Hollywood than with reality, write ...

Rising levels of poverty ‘would make Charles Dickens furious’, Lord Kinnock said in an interview with the Sunday Mirror.

The Deputy Prime Minister demanded Reform UK explain how it would keep young women safe after it vowed to repeal online safety rules.

Letby is serving 15 whole-life orders after murdering seven infants and attempting to murder seven others between June 2015 and June 2016.

The move by West Virginia comes as hundreds of District of Columbia National Guard were activated this week to back up local law enforcement.

Israel announced on Saturday that it is preparing to move Palestinians from combat zones to southern Gaza as plans move ahead for a military offensive in some of the territory’s most populated areas.

Some shoplifters “feel they can rob shops with impunity”, a policing chief has said. Katy Bourne, the national lead for shoplifting at the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, said more ...

The 50-square-metre piece on Bridlington beach in East Yorkshire, created by landscape artists from Sand In Your Eye and the charity’s youth ambassadors, is a portrait of a child with the words “Wish ...

The Britpop band featuring the Gallagher brothers will take to the stage at Croke Park – their first show in Ireland in 16 years.

An Israeli airstrike in Gaza killed a baby girl and her parents on Saturday, hospital officials and witnesses said, while families of hostages called for a “nationwide day of stoppage” in Israel to ...

Pro-Palestine protesters chanted “RAF shame on you” as they held a demonstration outside an air base calling for an embargo on selling arms to Israel. Hundreds of demonstrators gathered along the ...

The woman was pronounced dead at the scene in east London in the early hours of Saturday morning, police said.