Parts of the United States have been hit by severe weather with a tornado near a shopping centre in central California ...

The UK and Australia are also trying to develop underwater capability and share information. Australia is to equip its Hunter Class frigates with Thales’s 2087 sonar which could contribute around £45 ...

The military juntas of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso announced in January that they had decided to leave Ecowas.

French police are investigating the deaths of five people who were fatally shot in the Dunkirk area of northern France on Saturday. A 22-year-old man later turned himself in to police, according to ...

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was discharged from hospital on Sunday after undergoing surgery to stop a brain bleed. The 79-year-old president appeared at a press conference on Sunday ...

Santas and others dressed as Grinches and elves strolled to bars and clubs, flooding the streets with a crimson tide of ...

Fat Tony has alleged he was left with facial injuries after an incident where he was hit at a gig. The DJ and podcaster, real name Anthony Marnoch, who performed on Friday at Lido Margate in Kent, ...

Israel has said it will close its Dublin embassy, accusing Ireland of “crossing every red line”. Foreign minister Gideon Saar announced the closure in a statement due to the “extreme anti-Israel ...

For two weeks in December, 66 Christine Avenue becomes Santa's Garden - a Christmas lights display that takes up the entire front and back garden of the house. Mick and Norma Gale organise and prepare ...

The Santa Dash, an annual festive fundraiser organised by St Richard's Hospice, was held on Sunday (December 15). Wendy Chick, Graham Wilde and Sue Halliday were some of the first runners to arrive ...

Police have launched a murder inquiry following the “brutal and senseless” death of a woman in Co Down. The victim, who suffered a head injury, has been named as Karen Cummings, 40. Two men have been ...

Albums of family snaps – some showing the ex-president posing in his underwear – were found in his former residences.