Three Dublin men “beat the lard out of a taxi driver” and yesterday the sentencing judge said they could not avoid a conviction even though they were never in trouble before.

Bangladesh wants to protect vulernable children from getting harmed or involved in criminal activities.

The family of Irishman Ibrahim Halawa who has spent the last four years in jail in Egypt are preparing to sue over delayed verdicts in the trial.

We’ve all heard of the biblical “road to Damascus” but, in the case of two childhood friends, the path has led away from the Syrian capital all the way to West Cork.

Eight more people, including a 15-year-old boy, have appeared in court in England over a suspected hate attack which left a teenage asylum seeker fighting for his life.

Kurdish Iranian Reker Ahmed, 17, was chased and subjected to what police described as a "brutal attack" after a group of people discovered he was an asylum seeker.

Four members of a child sex grooming gang are facing deportation after losing a legal challenge in their battle to remain in the UK.

The man suspected of attacking soldiers at the Louvre in Paris, before being shot, has been declared fit enough to be interviewed.

The Louvre museum has reopened to the public, less than 24 hours after French soldiers shot a machete-wielding assailant who had shouted "Allahu akbar".

A truck loaded with sand has collided with a school bus, killing at least 24 young children in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

A British schoolboy killed in a grenade blast at an apartment in Sweden had just celebrated his eighth birthday, his grieving father has said.

The chilllest man in the world.

A New Zealand kebab shop owner has been praised for his enviably calm reaction to an armed robber,

The Church of Ireland Bishop of Cork condemned a city centre attack on a Muslim leader who has helped foster inter-faith links.

Victoria White reports from Skaramagas refugee camp, west of Athens, home to 2,800 refugees who fled fighting in Syria but now fear that their hopes of starting life afresh in the West will never be realised

Operation Mayday aims to help refugees settle in their new surroundings in Ireland, writes Joe Leogue.

Ibrahim Halawa's brother Ahmed has been allowed to visit him in prison in Egypt.

A British cancer patient is set to have his operation live-streamed using virtual-reality technology in a world first.

Gardaí are investigating after a taxi driver in Cork had a knife held at this throat during a robbery by a man on Christmas Day.

The 14-year-old boy who was arrested after authorities at his school mistook a clock he had built for a bomb has been invited to visit the White House by none other than President Obama himself.

A Texan high school student was arrested after authorities mistook his clock invention for a fake bomb at MacArthur high school in Irving, Texas.

Hungary sent refugees by special trains direct to the Austrian border, trying to offload record numbers streaming into the country before a crackdown by the right-wing government.

More drone strikes could be launched within weeks to kill terrorists in Syria plotting to wreak carnage in Britain, the county’s defence secretary indicated.

Arguably, the three most useful words in a sports fans vocabulary are ‘THE – YEAR — OF.’

A junior doctor who claimed he was the victim of racial bias was cleared of professional misconduct and poor professional performance at a Medical Council inquiry yesterday — despite the fact that many of the allegations against him were found to be factually true.

A British family of 12, including two grandparents with health problems and a baby, are feared to have travelled to Syria.

An expert witness yesterday painted a picture of an arrogant junior doctor who refused to take advice from his superiors, arguing that the doctor represented a danger to patients.

A doctor at the heart of a Medical Council inquiry yesterday questioned a witness as to whether he was lying.

A violent criminal who escaped from prison said he “wanted to test out the security” as he was tracked down in Spain.

A doctor subject to a Medical Council inquiry was “always going to prayer” and “used his religion not to behave properly”, a colleague said.

A doctor at the centre of a Medical Council inquiry was described in internal HSE correspondence as being “radicalised” and a supporter of al Qaeda.

A daring duo from Trinity College have won this year’s Jailbreak challenge — the annual charity race requiring students get to a secret location in Slovenia without spending a cent of their own money.

A consultant oncologist has told how she felt threatened by a doctor under her supervision on two separate occasions when she sought to discuss the junior registrar’s medical practices at the Midwestern Cancer Centre at University Hospital Limerick.

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Bangladeshi security officials arrested a suspect yesterday over the killing of an American writer Avijit Roy, a prominent critic of extremist Islam, was hacked to death last week as he walked with his wife in Dhaka.

A prominent American blogger known for his writing against religious fundamentalism has been hacked to death by cleaver-wielding attackers in Bangladesh’s capital.

A man has been jailed for at least 22 years for attacking his disabled wife with a metal table leg and then decapitating her with a kitchen knife in an act described by a UK judge as “perfect barbarity”.

A man admitted decapitating his wife when he appeared in a British court today.

Long after the last of the marchers left, people came, silent as mourners, to relight the candles flickering on the pedestal of liberty on the Place de la République.