If you can work, you should,’ social security minister Sir Stephen Timms told MPs before they voted on the welfare reforms.

Some victims were sent to prison or financially ruined, others were shunned by their communities, and some took their own lives.

Contractors are “on standby” to remove a loyalist bonfire in south Belfast which has sparked concern, a Sinn Fein MLA has said. Legal action is also understood to be planned against the towering pyre ...

Plumber Sean O’Meara, 36, was wearing a gas-mask and body armour when he was shot and seriously injured by a police officer on Monday night ...

The robot operated with the expertise of a skilled human surgeon, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers in the US.

A five-year-old boy who died after an allergic reaction at school was accidentally exposed to cow’s milk protein – probably from his own bottle, an inquest jury has concluded.

The document builds on other investigations by international and Israeli human rights groups and the United Nations.

Crews also in airboats, along with hundreds of volunteers, are part of one of the largest search operations in Texas history.

Paul Edwards was 17 and studying for his A-levels when he was knocked off his motorbike, suffering multiple fractures.

The US attorney general is under fire after the justice department refused to release further documents relating to the ...

Nicholas Prosper was jailed for life with a minimum term of 49 years in March after admitting the murders of his mother and siblings.

Gregory Twigg, 32, has denied intending to cause serious harm to Lee Woodward, 39, who died in hospital 10 months after he was punched three times.