UK

Dame Helen Mirren has said it is "so sad" Kurt Cobain died at such a young age and never got to see GPS. 

All five of One Direction's studio albums have returned to the UK top 40 following the death of former member Liam Payne.  

British singer Raye has said all her songwriting books have gone missing after her car was stolen.  

Four members of a group who plotted to kidnap a coroner have been jailed. 

More than 22 tonnes of luxury Cheddar cheese has been stolen from a London business in a "sophisticated fraud". 

Fresh off the back of becoming the first Irish-born winner of the best actor award at the Oscars, Cillian Murphy is busier than ever. 

There was "no reason to suspect" Brianna Ghey's friendship with one of her murderers was "anything but genuine", a coroner has ruled. 

While North Korea has been supplying weapons to Russia for some time, the arrival of troops is a major escalation in its involvement in the war of Ukraine. 

Three American astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut have been taken to a medical facility after returning to Earth from a nearly eight-month mission on the International Space Station. 

Mitie Group, the London-listed outsourcer, has kicked off a search for a successor to Derek Mapp, its long-serving chairman.