A quarter of all property owned by overseas companies in England and Wales is held by companies registered in the British Virgin Islands, according to new research.
Three people have been stabbed after a fight broke out during a funeral in Co Armagh, Northern Ireland. None are believed to be in a life-threatening condition.
The French government has announced it will introduce a "Universal National Service" for young citizens, as President Emmanuel Macron delivers on one of his campaign pledges.
Israel will boycott the Israeli Film Festival in Paris over its screening of Foxtrot - an Israeli film in which IDF soldiers kill and bury four Arab youths.
Commonwealth leaders are gathering in London where they will begin secret discussions as to who will succeed Queen Elizabeth II as head of the organisation.
Kim Jong-un has called for "livening up of the warm climate of reconciliation" between the two Koreas after the successful visit of a Northern delegation to the Winter Olympics.
Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili has been abducted by armed men from a restaurant in Kiev, Ukraine, after a court rejected his appeal against extradition to Georgia.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to continue strikes in Syria despite the risk of sparking a conflict with Iran via its Syrian and Lebanese proxies.
The North Korean cheerleaders attending the Winter Olympics have sparked a row by donning face masks appearing to represent the first leader of North Korea.
A former senior UN official has suggested that Oxfam workers involved in the Haitian prostitution scandal could face prosecution for sex crimes in British courts.
Fragments of a miniature "flying saucer" that has been called the "British Roswell" have been rediscovered in a cigarette box at London's Science Museum.
Nick Clegg has called on MPs to force a constitutional crisis in order to halt Brexit, accusing the "muppets" in Theresa May's government of destroying the UK's reputation.
Chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier has warned the UK that a transition deal "is not a given" if disagreements over the transition deal cannot be resolved.
An American man accused of abducting his children and initiating them into a Doomsday cult may have also been planning to kill his son, who he believed was possessed.
