Car insurer Admiral has revealed a £33 million hit due to reforms to personal injury compensation and warned that the total impact could be as much as £60 million.
August 14, 2019
Water-dropping planes and helicopters have resumed flights over a major wildfire burning through a protected nature reserve on the Greek island of Evia, where hundreds of people were evacuated from...
August 14, 2019
UK infrastructure giant Balfour Beatty's turnaround has continued to gather pace as the firm boosted profits by more than a quarter in the first half of the year.
August 14, 2019
New Zealand officials have admitted making a mistake by allowing the man accused of killing 51 people at two Christchurch mosques to send a handwritten letter from his prison cell.
August 14, 2019
Sports Direct has announced that auditor Grant Thornton is set to quit its role working for the retail giant.
August 14, 2019
Pakistan's prime minister has assured Kashmiri people living in the Indian-administered part of the divided region that he supports them in their struggle for self-determination.
August 14, 2019
Flights have resumed at Hong Kong's airport after two days of disruptions marked by outbursts of violence.
August 14, 2019
An Irishman has described how he helped to take down a killer rampaging through the streets of Sydney.
August 14, 2019
The Kremlin boasted yesterday that it was winning the race to develop new advanced nuclear weapons despite a mysterious rocket accident last week.
August 14, 2019
Donald Trump warned that China was moving troops to the Hong Kong border as protesters clashed with riot police at the city's international airport for a second time last night.
August 14, 2019
The head of Kyrgyzstan's security forces accused ex-president Almazbek Atambayev yesterday of planning to stage a coup, state news agency Kabar said, following a deadly clash last week with police...
August 14, 2019
The number of animals living in the world's forests has more than halved in the last 50 years, the conservation charity WWF has revealed.
August 14, 2019
Mystery surrounds the death of Irish teenager Nóra Quoirin after her naked body was discovered less than 2km from a resort in the Malaysian rainforest where she vanished 10 days...
August 14, 2019
One of the world's greatest opera singers has been accused of sexual harassment, with one woman claiming he had a superstition that "he had to be with a woman before...
August 14, 2019
President Michael D Higgins and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar yesterday sent Ireland's condolences to the bereaved family of Nora Quoirin, whose body was found in the Malaysian rainforest 10 days after...
August 14, 2019
Jeffrey Epstein may have videotaped the rich and famous friends who visited his "Paedophile Island" retreat, it has emerged.
August 14, 2019
Sperm can be separated to allow gender selection, a team of Japanese scientists have shown for the first time.
August 14, 2019
Mystery surrounds the death of Irish teenager Nora Quoirin after her naked body was discovered less than 2km from a resort in the Malaysian rainforest where she vanished 10 days...
August 14, 2019
Canadian police have said they believe two teenage fugitives suspected of killing a woman and her boyfriend as well as another man took their own lives.
August 14, 2019
The United Nations refugee agency urgently appealed to European governments yesterday to let two migrant rescue ships disembark more than 500 passengers who remain stranded at sea as countries bicker...
August 13, 2019
Two guards assigned to watch Jeffrey Epstein the night he apparently killed himself in jail have been placed on leave and the warden has been removed as federal authorities investigate...
August 13, 2019
The San Francisco Opera says it is cancelling an October concert featuring Placido Domingo amid claims that he sexually harassed several women.
August 13, 2019
Two guards assigned to watch Jeffrey Epstein the night he apparently killed himself in jail have been placed on leave and the warden has been removed as federal authorities investigate...
August 13, 2019
A man was given his own private Delta flight after he was the only person to show up for the trip.
August 13, 2019
A Russian fighter jet warded off a Nato military aircraft that approached a passenger plane carrying Russia's defence minister, according to media reports.
August 13, 2019
Markets pushed higher on Tuesday despite a number of global economic and political uncertainties, as the latest round of US tariffs on Chinese goods looked set to be delayed.
August 13, 2019
Riot police have clashed with pro-democracy protesters at Hong Kong's airport, moving into the terminal where the demonstrators had shut down operations at the busy transport hub for two straight...
August 13, 2019
A tiny trio of rock hyrax pups — the world's closest-known relative to the elephant — have been born at Chester Zoo.
August 13, 2019
Nespresso has partnered with a Swedish company to produce a bike made from used aluminium capsules in an effort to motivate customers to recycle coffee pods.
August 13, 2019
No-deal Brexit warnings from Government ministers are being placed on billboards around the country.
August 13, 2019
An Irishman has been praised after he helped take down a knifeman who stabbed a woman to death and left another injured in Sydney, Australia.
August 13, 2019
A dozen marines have charges pending against them after being accused of involvement in smuggling migrants that have crossed the US border, Marine Corps officials have said. Read Full Article...
