A French magistrate investigating the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier in West Cork has written to the Irish authorities seeking permission for investigators to return to Ireland to interview further witnesses in the case.

Supporters of a Belfast man facing a retrial for alleged assault have mounted a picket outside the offices of the Public Prosecutor in the city today.

The husband of a British woman who died in the devastating Austrian bus crash was grieving in intensive care tonight as the couple’s three teenage children recovered in a separate hospital.

German sausage makers have been making the country's most popular food with beef but labeling it as something else.