Sam Prendergast has been retained at fly-half for Ireland’s autumn finale against Australia. The 21-year-old, who made his maiden Test start in last weekend’s 52-17 win over Fiji, is selected ahead of ...

Nearly 25 million people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, according to development minister Anneliese Dodds.

Lord Lamont of Lerwick warned that a rival payments system would be a ‘major threat to the Western-led financial system’ if ...

A top Romanian court has asked the official electoral authority to recount and verify all of the ballots cast in the first round of the presidential election. The Constitutional Court in Bucharest ...

Kevin Sinfield says former Leeds team-mate Rob Burrow will be with him in spirit when he embarks on his latest fundraising challenge in support of the MND community. Burrow lost his battle against ...

Syria’s armed forces said the offensive was led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which controls much of north-west Syria and is ...

Bulgarian nationals Katrin Ivanova, Vanya Gaberova and Tihomir Ivanov Ivanchev allegedly carried out surveillance on ‘prominent’ individuals.

A police car has been involved in a crash near Great Western Hospital while on patrol in Swindon . The marked vehicle was involved in a crash with another car that was headed in the opposite direction ...

A major trial to determine if an innovative 10-minute sponge test should be used to screen people with heartburn for oesophageal cancer has welcomed its first patients. The capsule sponge test ...

Former soldier Daniel Khalife has been found guilty of breaching the Official Secrets and Terrorism Acts by collecting sensitive information and passing it to agents of Iran. The 23-year-old spy, who ...

Former England coach Chris Silverwood will return to Essex as the county’s new director of cricket. The 49-year-old is due to take up his new role in mid-December, succeeding Anthony McGrath who ...

The results showed a five-year downward trend in the number of people saying they were always able to get help from staff during labour and birth.