BERLIN (AFP) – Airport traffic was suspended at Hanover airport on Saturday after a car crashed through a barrier onto the runway, police said. “A security incident occurred at Hanover airport around 3.40pm (10.40pm Singapore time). A man broke through a barrier in a car which went onto the runway,” Hanover police said on Twitter. […]

One man has died and 23 people have been taken to hospital after a bus overturned in the Scottish Borders. The single-vehicle crash happened on the A6089, between Carfraemill and Gordon, at around 10.50am on Saturday. Police Scotland said the private minibus was carrying 23 adult passengers plus the driver on a journey from Newtongrange […]

LONDON — Royal Mail of Britain is used to apologizing to customers, mostly for missing parcels and letters sent to the wrong address. But an error in a design for a stamp to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day — it showed American troops on the wrong beach, in Asia instead of Europe — has […]

PARIS (AFP) – Police fired tear gas at “yellow vest” demonstrators in Paris on Saturday (Dec 29) but the turnout for round seven of the popular protests that have rocked France appeared low. Several hundred people wearing the symbolic hi-visibility vests had gathered near the offices of France Televisions and the BFM TV channel in […]

By Rebecca Taylor, news reporter For some, it’s the icing on the cake, the pinnacle of their career, and a chance to be patriotic. But every year, some celebrities and public figures turn down their New Year and birthday honours from the Queen, choosing to avoid the pomp and ceremony of a royal mention. David […]

The excavation of the Tuam site where it is suspected that hundreds of babies are buried will be the biggest in Irish history and is set to begin later in 2019. It comes after significant quantities of human remains were discovered in 2016 at the site of a former mother and baby home in Tuam. […]

He has been specially trained from a very young age to support vulnerable victims and witnesses of crime by offering them “quiet companionship”. By sitting calmly at their feet, or resting his head on their lap, researchers claim he can put people at ease and improve their ability to recount distressing experiences to detectives. He […]

‘Dancing with the Stars’ professional dancer Curtis Pritchard is to undergo surgery after he and his brother AJ were attacked in a UK nightclub. The brothers were reportedly set upon by a gang of up to eight men while on a night out in Nantwich in Cheshire on Thursday night. Curtis suffered injuries to his […]

Merrion Vaults, located in Dublin city centre, estimates the number of Northern Irish clients using its services has risen by around 70% over 2018. Seamus Fahy, the firm’s co-founder, says the rise in demand is due to people in Northern Ireland seeking to transfer savings into precious metals, traditionally seen as a “safe haven” in […]

A look at the key figures in Al Jazeera’s undercover investigation into violence and racism behind France’s far right. In a two-part investigation, Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit went undercover to expose France’s far-right youth group Generation Identity (GI) and filmed its activists carrying out racist attacks on young Arabs in the northern French city of […]