In 1966, a spoil-heap landslide crushed Pantglas Primary School in the coal-mining village of Aberfan near Merthyr Tydfil, killing 144 people.

Hollywood actor Matthew McConaughey has voiced an awards trailer featuring the 15 finalists and showcasing their solutions.

“From the day we signed the Sharm el-Sheikh agreement, we were determined and committed to seeing it through to the end,” ...

The technology uses ultrasound to destroy cancer cells and can be done in as little as 30 minutes, without the need for surgery.

Spending would be going towards modern manufacturing facilities at the company’s main UK factory in Staffordshire.

Six people were arrested as Irish police were attacked with missiles after violence flared outside a Dublin hotel used to house asylum seekers.

Older women who clock up 4,000 steps a day just once or twice a week cut their chance of early death by 26%, research suggests. It is also the amount people walk, rather than the number of days on ...

A law which guides the Family Court to presume that contact with both parents is usually in the best interests of a child is to be repealed.

The two candidates for the presidency of Ireland have made pitches to undecided voters in the final TV debate of the campaign. Fine Gael candidate Heather Humphreys and her rival, Catherine Connolly, ...

Government plans to hand more powers to the Environment Agency to penalise water companies for minor rule-breaking are now under consultation.