The former Sinn Fein president criticised a BBC broadcast that aired allegations that he sanctioned the killing of British spy Denis Donaldson.

Economy minister Yulia Svyrydenko is currently in Washington for the final co-ordination of the agreement’s technical details, sources said.

New guidelines from the independent Sentencing Council were scheduled to come into force earlier this month but were delayed.

Richard Satchwell, 58, from Grattan Street in Youghal, Co Cork, denies murdering his wife Tina Satchwell at the home they shared in March 2017.

Venues in England and Wales which usually close at 11pm will be able to keep serving for an extra two hours on Thursday May 8.

Swedish journalist Joakim Medin — reprsented by MLSA — was handed a suspended sentence for “insulting the president” in Turkey but remains jailed in a separate case on terrorism-related charges.… ...

Charles hosted a reception for cancer support groups and organisations at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday evening.