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Ireland's saint's day celebrated around world with landmark buildings getting makeovers in national colour

Five members of a violent Liverpool gang have been arrested for gun crimes and leaving a grenade on Liverpool FC manager Kenny Dalgish's garden wall.

Ibrox administrators Duff and Phelps confident buyer can be found for troubled Scottish Premiership club just hours before time runs out.

Public displays of homosexuality will be banned in St Petersburg.

The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh officially re-opened the Kensington Palace after a £12m renovation project.

A minute’s silence took place in Belgium with the country grieving 28 victims of the Switzerland coach crash.

Dr.Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury Resigns

The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams will step down at the end of the year.

The waste that had reached Indonesian shores was garbage with a mix of dry, wet and some smelly and dripping waste.

Giant and colossal squids have eyes as big as basketballs to spot and escape from sperm whales, according to a new study.

Up to 28 people, including 22 children died when the bus they were travelling in crashed into the wall of tunnel.

Mother of schoolboy Adam Regis stabbed to death on way home from cinema releases heartfelt appeal.

Following the horrific coach crash in a tunnel near Sierre Switzerland, that left 22 school children and 6 adults’ dead, with a further 24 injured.The parents of the deceased and critically injured have started arriving in Switzerland.

Urban air pollution is set to become the top environmental cause of mortality worldwide by 2050, according to a new report.

Elections for selecting police commissioners for 41 force areas outside London will take place on November 15.

Modern lifestyles have led to sleep deprivation causing diseases like hypertension and diabetes.

Omo tribes from Lower Omo valley in Ethiopia to be squeezed off land in huge plantation expansion.

Duchess shows off hockey skills to British Olympics team at Stratford Olympic Park

Escapee puts daughter on critical list after driving truck over her in murderous escape bid.

A school with only 12 pupils, situated in the remote Russian village of Bolshie Khutora, about 440 km (273 miles) west of Moscow, provides the best education a child can have.

Scott Lively and Christian Abiding Truth Ministries named in court action for inciting hatred of gays.

First responders spoke of the horror of the accident that killed 28 people, including 22 children.

Harvard University was again chosen as the top university by Times Higher Education magazine.

Biggest review of police in 30 years suggests officers should be disciplined if they fail to keep fit.

Amina Filali tragedy was fault of judge, says family, as pressure mounts to repeal Morocco's rapists' charter law.

Survivor who lost both legs in London terror bombings joins UK volleyball team at London 2012.

People who do not sleep at least eight hours a day, tend to eat too much and thus be more likely to become fat, according to new study.

Researchers from the University of Aberdeen and the University of Stirling have found that several mothers find breast feeding goal to be unrealistic and unachievable.

Comedian joins Cruelty Free International fight to stop safety tests on animals for shampoos and other cosmetics.