Italy’s highest court on Thursday upheld a slander conviction against US defendant Amanda Knox for accusing an innocent man in her British flatmate’s 2007 murder.

The bodies of Mark Gordon, 36, and his six-year-old daughter Hope were found in West Calder on Monday afternoon.

Southport’s Labour MP Patrick Hurley said the sentence was “not severe enough” and he had asked the Attorney General to review the sentence as “unduly lenient”, adding: “We need a sentence that ...

A second 16-year-old boy has been arrested under the Terrorism Act after an incident outside a mosque. On Thursday at around 9am, police apprehended one youth outside the Inverclyde Islamic Centre, ...

British film star Ralph Fiennes has said he is “thrilled” to receive a best actor Oscar nomination for his role in pope drama Conclave. This year’s announcement saw Spanish-language musical Emilia ...

Ireland’s newly-appointed premier has promised to tackle the housing crisis and create a “step change” for people with disabilities as he revealed a refreshed Cabinet.

Millions of people in Scotland received an emergency alert to their mobile phones after the Met Office issued a red danger to life warning for wind. The Cabinet Office alert at around 6pm on Thursday ...

The 18-year-old’s disruptions meant he was not in court as the judge handed him one of the longest minimum terms on record.

Yuval Raphael, 24, survived the Nova music festival in southern Israel as Hamas militants stormed the event on October 7 2023.

Axel Rudakubana is the latest high-profile killer to avoid facing his victims’ families while being sentenced. The Southport killer was removed from his own sentencing twice for repeatedly shouting, ...

Jack Chambers, who was first elected as a TD for Dublin West in 2016, is the Minister for Public Expenditure. The 34-year-old was touted as a talent within the coalition from early on. He had a good ...

More than four million people across Northern Ireland and parts of Scotland have received emergency alerts on their phones in the “largest real life use of the tool to date”, the Government said.