European travel and leisure firms saw around €2.6bn wiped off their stock prices today as a result of the Paris terror attacks.

Jewellery worth about one million US dollars (€780,000) has been stolen from a safe in a Cannes hotel room, against the backdrop of the Riviera resort town’s film festival.

A major French hotel development in Belfast city centre could be abandoned due to the loyalist flag protests.

Surveillance videos aired publicly for the first time show former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn leisurely checking out of a New York hotel where he was accused of sexually assaulting a chambermaid, and his accuser appearing to act out the alleged attack.

Clonakilty-based company, SouthWestern, has won a contract to manage reservations for Poland’s largest hotel network.

GREEN technology firm Nualight is to create 25 jobs over the next two years on foot of signing a €5 million contract with retail chain Tesco.

US and Austrian lawyers have filed a lawsuit demanding Thailand, US forecasters and the French Accor group answer accusations they failed in a duty to warn populations hit by December’s tsunami disaster, a lawyer said yesterday.

Workers from Indonesia to India rushed to bury corpses to ward off disease today as cargo planes touched down with promised aid – from lentils to water purifiers – to help the region cope with its tsunami catastrophe.

Rescuers were hoping for “individual miracles” of survival as they combed the beaches and islands of southern Thailand today for missing tourists and locals swept away by earthquake-powered tidal waves.

BARRING miracles, French hotel group Accor said it had little hope for scores of guests missing from a Thai resort hit by the tidal wave disaster.

Barring miracles, French hotel group Accor said it had little hope for scores of guests missing from a Thai resort hit by the tidal wave disaster.