A 47-year-old man, identified in reports as Christian Brueckner, is accused of rape and sexual abuse carried out in Portugal between 2000 and 2017.

A prominent charity has suffered “huge reputational damage” in the fall-out over its employment of a former Sinn Fein employee who later admitted a series of child sex offences.

A “jolly emu who loved cuddles” has been found dead seven days after disappearing from an animal sanctuary in Wiltshire. Malmesbury Animal Sanctuary announced that Irwin’s body had been discovered ...

Greece is a popular location for family holidays, with some parents attempting to give their children so-called stealth education by combining a stay in Athens, to show them historical sites such as ...

A Russian court has sentenced a 72-year-old American to nearly seven years in prison for allegedly fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine, following a closed trial.

Investigations are continuing after an explosion ripped through flats leaving one man dead and three people injured. Emergency services were called to the scene in Alloa, Clackmannanshire, at about ...

Lawyers for Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy are in court in London in a dispute over costs from the libel case.

Milton has increased to a Category 2 hurricane as the US state of Florida gears up for what could be its biggest evacuation ...