A second US aircraft carrier is operating in Mideast waters ahead of the next round of talks between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear programme, satellite photos ...

Ireland was outperforming Northern Ireland in most areas, including living standards, new Economic and Social Research Institute research found.

Droitwich Spa rounded off their title-winning season in style as they cruised to a 5-0 win over mid-table Tytherington Rocks.

An Israeli airstrike hit the northern gate of a field hospital in the Gaza Strip, killing a medic and wounding nine other people, a spokesman for the hospital said. Tuesday’s strike hit the Kuwaiti ...

The Guttmacher Institute, a research organisation that supports abortion, estimates in a report that the overall number of clinician-provided abortions in states where it is legal rose by less than 1% ...

A DISAPPOINTING second-half display saw Bromsgrove Sporting drop a lead in a 2-1 defeat at Royston Town. Last Saturday's result at Garden Walk left 14th-placed Sporting two points off the relegation ...

People who had been planning to implement measures under the sustainable farming incentive now say they cannot afford to.

The availability of jobs worsened further, with vacancy numbers dropping to 781,000 for the three months to March, the ONS said.

The books that made the shortlist were: The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry (Canongate); The Mare by Angharad Hampshire (Northodox Press), The Book of Days by Francesca kay (Swift Press), Glorious ...

Victory is virtually assured for the People’s Action Party which has led the city-state since independence in 1965.

Regulator Ofgem is to scrap the current first-come, first-served approach to the grid connections queue, which has left some projects facing decade-long delays. The new plan will see projects that can ...