Police in Northern Ireland are investigating a potential Islamist terrorist link to a stabbing in Belfast earlier this month, the PA news agency understands. Religious ideology is one of a number of ...

Lib Dem MP Clive Jones told the Commons the hardest thing he has ever had to do is tell his two teenage daughters he has cancer.

Hamas said it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four dual-national hostages who died in captivity.

The son of an Oxfam volunteer who was struck and killed by a bus on the world’s longest guided busway said it was “such a preventable accident”, a court heard. Three people died in separate incidents ...

Claudiu Carol Kondor, 42, was delivering parcels in Leeds last year when “career criminal” Mark Ross, 32, climbed into his van and drove away ...

Sir Martyn Oliver, chief inspector of Ofsted, said giving parents the information they need in a clear and accessible way was a ‘must-have’.

The Royal College of Nursing’s governing council voted in 2009 to move to a neutral stance on assisted dying for terminally-ill people while doctors’ union the BMA shifted from a position against ...

Jessie Holmes, a former reality television star, has won the longest-ever Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska. Holmes was first to the finish line in the Gold Rush town of Nome, on the Bering Sea ...

The retailer has been in talks over an initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange over the past year.

An actress who was said to have been groped by Noel Clarke denies having been touched inappropriately and said she never spoke to Guardian journalists before they published allegations of sexual ...

A convicted killer who “terrified” Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Tweedy by repeatedly turning up to her home has been jailed. Daniel Bannister, 50, admitted turning up at the 41-year-old’s Buckinghamshire ...

Students who have been marching or cycling toward Belgrade for days are expected to arrive on Friday evening for a festival-like welcome in the city. Previous student-led rallies ...