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Police called to a petrol station disturbance found a naked man washing with milk, claiming to have been attacked with bear spray. However, the cops in Penticton, B.C., Canada, found it hard to believe his story about an alleged attack at the hands of three unknown men.

The High Court has refused to remit a summary judgment of more than €6 million to plenary hearing, because the secretary of the company against which the judgment was made could not prove Allied Irish Bank (AIB) had been negligent in failing to provide him with independent legal advice when he sig

Finance Minister Michael Noonan Finance Minister Michael Noonan yesterday failed to persuade his Cabinet colleagues to back an appeal aimed at overturning the European Commission's €13 billion tax ruling against Ireland and Apple.

Revised proposals to establish a common system for calculating the tax base of businesses operating in the EU are expected to be brought forward by the European Commission in November. The Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB) was first proposed in 2011, and the Commission announced in June

David Mulholland The Bar of Northern Ireland has taken up a 4,000 sq ft space in Belfast City Centre to provide the base for Northern Ireland's first specialist mediation centre.

A campaign group has raised concerns over the possible political vetting of Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to the Northern Ireland Executive, The Irish News reports. The Campaign for Freedom of Information said some departments only release responses to FOI requests after approval by minister

Ciaran White Ciaran White, senior lecturer in law at Ulster University and clinic director at the Ulster Law Clinic, writes on workers' rights in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of the Brexit vote.

Health Minister Michelle O'Neill Northern Ireland's lifetime ban on the donation of blood by men who have had sex with men (MSM) has officially been lifted today.

Committee chair Maria Miller The UK House of Commons’ Women and Equalities Committee has called for women in the UK to have protections similar to those in Germany after a “shocking” increase in workplace pregnancy discrimination over the past decade.

A bungling burglar was busted after his burger boxers made a strong impression on his victim. Darren Machon, 39, was jailed for two years and 10 months after breaking into a woman's home in South Wales.

The High Court in Belfast has awarded compensation of £50,000 to a former hotelier after defamatory comments were published in the Sunday World newspaper. Justice Stephens held that the newspaper did not meet the standards of responsible journalism in failing to verify sources, and had erroneously

Finance Minister Michael Noonan Finance Minister Michael Noonan will today seek Cabinet approval for an appeal against the European Commission's ruling that the State must collect €13 billion in unpaid tax from US tech giant Apple.

Prime Minister Theresa May Prime Minister Theresa May is today chairing a Cabinet meeting on Brexit to discuss the best approach to the UK's exit from the EU.

John-George Willis, head of the firm's corporate department Belfast firm Tughans has said it believes transactional activity in Northern Ireland is beginning to return to normality after a slowdown in the wake of the UK's Brexit vote.

Children's Minister Katherine Zappone Children's Minister Katherine Zappone should negotiate with trade unions to end the industrial dispute at the Oberstown Youth Detention Centre, a leading prison reform group has said.