A convicted criminal lunged at a US judge yesterday as she was about to sentence him to jail, in a dramatic courtroom scuffle caught on video. Footage shows Deobra Redden, 30, launching himself over the bench at Judge Mary Kay Holthus and attacking her in the Clark County court in …

An increased volume of synthetic drugs being sold on the Irish market led to an unprecedented level of overdoses in 2023 and an uptick in those seeking help for mental health problems, the Health Service Executive has said. Batches of what were initially thought to be heroin laced with the …

Oscar Pistorius’ life story from before and after Valentine’s Day 2013 reads like the script to two markedly different films – the first an inspirational sporting biopic and the second a grim tale of murder. In the first he was the “Blade Runner”, the multiple Paralympic gold medallist with carbon-fibre …

Police have made a fresh appeal for information on the killers of a terminally ill man beaten to death by loyalists four years ago today. Glenn Quinn was murdered in his home in Carrickfergus by a masked gang believed to be allied to the South East Antrim UDA. It is …

A New York judge has begun to unseal the identities of people linked in court documents to Jeffrey Epstein, the US financier who killed himself in 2019 as he awaited trial for sex crimes. Notably included in the unsealed documents, which include almost 1,000 pages of depositions and statements, were …

New figures show that 10,000 free home sexually transmitted infection (STI) kits are being ordered each month from the HSE. The service provides people aged 17 and older with the option to test for STIs discreetly at home. People with a reactive result, indicating a need for further investigation or …

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will leave Thursday on his fourth crisis trip to the Middle East, an official said, as fears mount that the Israel-Hamas conflict will spiral into a regional war. The top US diplomat will leave Thursday evening from Washington on a trip that will include …

South Korean and US troops have conducted joint combat firing drills near the border with North Korea involving heavy weapons, as North Korea lambasted the allies for dangerous moves pushing the region to the brink of “an inferno of nuclear war.” The exercise by a South Korean Army mechanised infantry …

A senior official in the US Education Department stepped down on Wednesday, citing President Joe Biden’s handling of the conflict in Gaza, the latest sign of dissent in the administration as deaths continue to grow in the war. Also on Wednesday, 17 of Mr Biden’s re-election campaign staffers issued a …

Police have made a fresh appeal for information on the killers of a terminally ill man beaten to death by loyalists four years ago today. Glenn Quinn was murdered in his home in Carrickfergus by a masked gang believed to be allied to the South East Antrim UDA. It is …