Police in Cyprus are investigating after a statue of a giant potato was found vandalised on New Year's Day.The four-metre sculpture in the village of Xylophagou was cut down from its stand at around...

One of the survivors of the 2015 Berkeley balcony collapse, Aoife Beary, has died at the age of 27.Six Irish students were killed and several others were injured when a fourth-floor balcony in Berkeley,...

World-renowned conservationist and fossil hunter Richard Leakey, whose discoveries helped prove humankind evolved in Africa, has died at the age of 77.Tributes have poured in for the Kenyan paleoanthropologist who also spearheaded campaigns against...

Sudan's prime minister has announced his resignation from the country's military-controlled government following pro-democracy protests which left two dead.Abdalla Hamdok's resignation comes less than two months after he was reinstated into power after signing...

An unidentified person has crossed the demilitarised zone into North Korea.

Lionel Messi and three other Paris Saint-Germain players have tested positive for COVID-19, the club has confirmed.

An unvaccinated couple with four children died on the same day after contracting COVID-19.Alvaro and Sylvia Fernandez, of Loma Linda in Southern California, died without hours of each other on 19 December, their family...

Dramatic footage has shown people being winched down from cable cars after being stranded up a mountain overnight on New Year's Eve.Twenty-one people were rescued on Saturday after becoming trapped in gondola cars on...