A five-year-old boy freed by kidnappers after his family paid a £110,000 ransom was reunited with his father today.

SPANISH police testified in Cork that they detained the Lucky Day yacht and arrested the two crewmen on board four days after €440 million worth of cocaine was discovered off the coast of west Cork.

SPANISH police investigating the disappearance of Amy Fitzpatrick have asked her family for DNA samples.

A massive search operation is underway in Spain for an Irish teenager, who has been missing for four days.

SPANISH police arrested 15 people yesterday on suspicion of recruiting volunteers for terror training in Afghanistan and Iraq.

SPANISH police arrested two suspected members of the Real IRA in the southern city of Malaga for allegedly attempting to smuggle 500,000 packets of cigarettes to Britain.

SPANISH police arrested three Moroccans yesterday who they believe were seeking to buy explosives for a terrorist attack.

SPANISH police this week arrested 10 people in a ring that forged European and US passports.

SPANISH police yesterday arrested a north African man who is suspected of involvement in the train bombings that killed almost 200 people in Madrid last month.