The crew of the LÉ Samuel Beckett has rescued 40 people off the coast of Tripoli.

Irish naval vessel the L.E. James Joyce was welcomed home today following its mission in the Mediterranean sea.

Update 12.45pm: A fuel tanker that disappeared from a Malaysian port was taken by its own crew in a dispute with their employer, Indonesian and Malaysian officials have said.

The families of six crew members on a Malaysian passenger jet shot down over Ukraine have filed lawsuits against Malaysia Airlines for negligence and breach of contract.

Two men remain in a critical condition in hospital after a car crashed into a RTÉ TV crew filming a crime series in Belfast.

The captain and crew of a London-bound British Airways plane have been praised for their “textbook” response to an engine fire at a Las Vegas airport.

Passengers had been expecting a relaxed, uneventful transatlantic flight, but what they got was several hours ‘terrified at the hands of an intoxicated and out-of-control flight crew’, reports Conall Ó Fátharta.