Legal costs fighting the EU’s investigation into Apple’s taxes have so far cost the State over €1m, a figure which will rise in the coming years with Ireland’s appeal over the case.

Mexico began the process of extraditing drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to the United States, after the famed fugitive was recaptured following a dramatic, months-long hunt featuring movie stars, sewer escapes, and bloody shootouts.

When a woman in Texas claimed that Alondra Luna Nunez was her long-lost daughter, the girl’s real parents in Mexico say they presented more than a dozen documents from baptismal records and a copy of her birth certificate to family photographs. 

Disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris has been spat at in prison.

Police who raided a group home in Mexico have rescued 458 children who were forced to beg for money and suffered sexual abuse while being held against their will in filthy conditions.

A report on the Garda removal of two Roma children from their parents in the false belief they were stolen children is not ready for publication, the Department of Justice has said.

Recording of Telephone Conversations made and retained in Garda Stations. Data Protection Acts — Retention of Data.

A number of Twitter users who posted photos claiming to show James Bulger’s killer Jon Venables face a possible jail sentence tonight after Britain’s chief legal adviser launched contempt proceedings against them.

Rescue teams worked through the night to pull out survivors after a massive explosion at the main headquarters of Mexico’s state-owned oil company killed 14 people and injured 100.

An application to quash the original Hillsborough inquest verdicts could be made today, the Attorney General’s office said.

A judge has revoked the acquittal of a leftist guerrilla accused in the killings of three Americans in Colombia in 1999 and ordered his arrest, the Attorney General’s Office said.

Northern Ireland Attorney General John Larkin twice rejected attempts to settle his High Court action against Peter Hain before they agreed to halt the proceedings in advance of a full hearing, the former Secretary of State has claimed.

Credit union chiefs who fail to adhere to proposed new legislation run the risk of heavy fines of up to €250,000 and multi-year prison sentences.

A CULT-LIKE drug cartel that challenged a rival gang by rolling five severed heads onto a disco dance floor in western Mexico was so divided and cash-strapped of late that it sought to form an alliance with that gang, police officials have confirmed.

A CLINICAL psychologist is coming to Cork this weekend to prepare priests from the diocese of Cloyne for the expected public outcry following publication of the Dublin Archdiocese report into the handling of child abuse in the diocese.

A judge has ordered a US-born suspected drug lord known as “La Barbie” to be held for 40 days pending an investigation into organised crime, Mexican authorities said today.

THE HSE has been given a deadline of late June to provide all details of children who have died in care in the past decade.

CONCERN for the safety of ongoing criminal cases has led Justice Minister Dermot Ahern to refer the report on child abuse in the Dublin Archdiocese to the High Court.

THE “bad bank” proposed by the Government to take toxic debts from financial institutions only expects to break even – but it could take 15 years.

Security camera footage shows guards at a Mexican prison nonchalantly stood by as 53 dangerous inmates walked out – and didn’t rush into action with their guns drawn until well after their convoy of escape vehicles had disappeared into the night.

Prisoners jailed on the strength of a DNA testing technique that is now under review could turn to the appeal courts in a bid to have their convictions quashed, an expert said today.

Ministers would not seek to interfere in a fraud investigation into a multibillion-pound arms deal with Saudi Arabia, the UK Department of Foreign Affairs said today.

A woman claiming to be the mother of a baby girl discovered stabbed to death over 30 years ago today criticised the Gardaí after the inquest was further delayed.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell yesterday blamed media and opposition “hysteria” for forcing him to rush through emergency legislation to deal with the statutory rape crisis.

Two pilots detained as they awaited a shipment of cocaine from Venezuela are employees of Mexico’s federal water commission, local media quoted officials as saying today.

A series of explosions at an assembly plant in the Mexican border state of Coahuila forced the evacuation of thousands of residents near the industrial city of Monclova today.

THE Government paid over €1 million last year to rehire civil servants it had already pensioned off because no one else was trained to do their jobs, according to Opposition TDs.

Switzerland has launched criminal proceedings against four people in connection with the UN oil-for-food programme, the Economics Ministry said today.

THE Government will face fines of several million euro if it does not clean up its act after being found guilty yesterday of failing to tackle illegal dumping and breaking EU waste directives.

TWENTY-THREE separate private developers want to build the National Stadium, including groups from Britain, Germany and France, it emerged yesterday.

According to a report inone of today's Sunday newspapers Gardai still do not know how to enforce the law banning the use of mobile phones while driving, three months after it was introduced.