Members of Ormeau Runners running club (left to right) Ciaran O’Hare, Paula Kealey, Deirdre Fitzpatrick, Jude Tweedie, Louise ...

Brave outdoor swimmers wore Father Christmas hats as they kicked off their celebrations with a festive dip. Sea surface ...

Sir Keir Starmer has condemned Russia’s strikes on Ukraine’s energy grid “with no respite even at Christmas”. Russia launched ...

One of the first babies born on Christmas Day in Scotland interrupted her parents’ Christmas Eve movie night after arriving ...

Elsewhere in the world, Hanukkah started on Christmas Day for the first time since 2005 and celebrations were muted in ...

In Dublin, swimmers braved the cold water on an otherwise mild morning in Clontarf, where a picturesque sunrise featured ...

Morocco is a common destination car makers head to when they launch a new product. Mazda followed suit recently – but took ...

Sir Brian May, Kylie Minogue and and Sir Paul McCartney are among the host of famous faces to share festive well-wishes on ...

The King attended the royal family’s traditional Christmas Day church service, after a “brutal” year in which he and his ...

A man has been arrested after a targeted stop and search by police in Birmingham uncovered drugs in his car Members of ...

Migrants have been crossing the English Channel in small boats on Christmas Day. Several boats were seen making the dangerous ...