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A new report into the activities of the top British spy inside the IRA during The Troubles has said that he "committed crimes of the worst possible kind”, including torture and murder, and should be publicly named by the UK government. 

Victims of maternity failings say they are "disappointed" by the findings of an interim report they fear will have "no teeth" to make changes. 

Donald Trump's bruising assessment of Europe as "weak" and "decaying" is a bitter blow to nations already reeling from the release of his national security strategy.

Four people have died and another is missing after a powerful wave dragged a group of swimmers out to sea on the Spanish island of Tenerife.

A "cheap ceasefire" between Ukraine and Russia - with Kyiv forced to surrender land - would create an "expensive peace" for the whole of Europe, Norway's foreign minister has warned.

A public inquiry into the murder of a woman is now formally under way and will examine what went wrong in the police investigation that allowed a serial rapist to evade justice for almost 20 years.

A New York judge has ordered the release of material from Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking case.

Punk-rap duo Bob Vylan are suing Irish national broadcaster RTE for defamation, claiming it misrepresented chants led by the band when they played this year's Glastonbury festival.

MPs will debate plans to create a new bespoke UK-EU customs unions, following a rare tied vote in the Commons.

Prince William says he is "proud" of being the patron of Centrepoint, a youth homelessness charity he has supported for 20 years.