Today’s top stories: The warmest January on record; Donald Trump’s plan for Ukraine; Israel requesting its military look at a ...

The world's largest invertebrate remained hidden from humanity until a tantalising glimpse 100 years ago. But it would be ...

US peacekeepers were killed by Somalia militiamen in flip-flops. What went wrong – and did it set a ‘dangerous precedent’?

For British archaeology there was a grisly ending ... flight wounds and parrying injuries to the arms and hands. The skeletal remains do not always fit claims of minor, sporadic violence.

Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo’s paramilitary, Janjaweed fighters have been accused of killing tens of thousands of people in Sudan’s ...

“Inside the hospital, they distribute the grenades and mortars equipment for attacking tanks, for ambush positions ... food required in a crisis. The British National Health Service states ...

Blackbeard may be the world’s most famous pirate, but throughout history there have been many legendary buccaneers who also ...

Although achieving substantial independence for the new Irish Free State, the settlement confirmed the 1920 partition of Ireland, made the new state a dominion of the British Empire, and ensured ...

An emaciated dog, 11 kittens squeezed into a cat carrier, and 10 tarantulas left in rubbish bags were among the surge of ...

Members of a specialist British military unit who shot dead four IRA men in an ambush in Co Tyrone in 1992 used lethal force which was not justified, a coroner has ruled. Northern Ireland’s ...

The families of the IRA men killed in Clonoe in February 1992 are "overwhelmed" with the coroner's verdict that the lethal ...