Taoiseach Micheal Martin invited JD Vance and his wife Usha to Ireland during a warm exchange at the US Naval Observatory.

When she steps down at next year’s Scottish Parliament election, Nicola Sturgeon will have spent 27 years as an MSP and made history as the first woman to become Scotland’s first minister. She was ...

The container ship Solong struck US oil tanker Stena Immaculate off the east coast of Yorkshire on Monday morning.

Nicola Sturgeon can be proud of “changing the lives of people in Scotland for the better”, Scotland’s First Minister has said ...

Michael Steele was jailed for life in 1998 for the gangland murders of Tony Tucker, Pat Tate and Craig Rolfe, which he denied ...

Callum Hemming insisted it is just the start for him and Estelle van Leeuwen after a narrow defeat at the YONEX All England Badminton Championships. The Milton Keynes natives were making their first ...

Conservative former minister Sir John Whittingdale, who raised the case in the Commons, said the couple should be ‘thanked rather than punished’.

The ex-SNP leader said she is “proud” to have been the first woman in the top job in Scottish politics, but as she announced she is stepping down from the Scottish Parliament she voiced concerns about ...

Pakistani authorities have said an insurgent attack on a train carrying hundreds of people has ended, with all attackers killed following a day-long standoff. Some of the hostages taken were killed, ...

Retired teacher Catherine Rennie Nash, 74, and former tax adviser Nigel Fleming, 63, are being questioned by police.

On Wednesday, former NHS consultant in intensive care Professor Patrick Nee, who said he was instructed by the hospital trust to assist with their review, gave evidence to the inquest and said it ...

Small farms in landscapes like the Lakes and Dales lost out on Government cash for nature-friendly farming, Labour MPs have warned after the closure of a flagship payments scheme.