Eoin English writes about families benefitting from Chernobyl Children International and Irish Aid-funded outreach schemes

The Lord Mayor of Cork Chris O’Leary has seen how an Irish charity has pioneered a new foster-care model which has saved 300 vulnerable Belarussian children from a life in bleak state-run orphanages.

Tonight's TV tips.

A "suspicious" letter has been found outside a café in Copenhagen, the scene of an attack during a free speech event on Saturday.

Portugal and Real Madrid soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo confirmed he has broken up with longtime girlfriend, Russian model Irina Shayk.

The concluding chapter of the outlandish fang-tasy series based on Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling books delivers a masterclass in constructing CGI mountains out of molehills.

Posh will have to wait for the Olympics and Crouchy’s omission has kept Abbey Clancy at home. So, asks Larry Ryan, where will frisky TV directors point the cameras during injury stoppages this month?

TWO Russian families have each won €72,000 in compensation from a maternity home that accidently switched their 12-year-old daughters at birth.

Two Russian families have won €72,000 compensation each from a maternity home that accidentally switched their 12-year old daughters at birth.

An exiled Russian oligarch called Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich a “bastard” after being “blackmailed”, a British High Court judge was told.

Two families in Russia are suing a hospital after being given the wrong babies 12 years ago.

The final series of Celebrity Big Brother to be broadcast on Channel 4 started tonight.

Roman Abramovich’s divorce will have no impact on his ownership of Chelsea.

The EU called on its European partners today to protest at Belarusian violence against demonstrators and the detention of opposition leader Alexander Kozulin.

Hundreds of demonstrators shivered and cheered through the freezing pre-dawn today in the capital of Belarus, trying to keep up momentum in a drive to overturn a landslide election that gave a new term to authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko.

A ROMANIAN Orthodox priest, facing charges for ordering the crucifixion of a young nun because she was “possessed by the devil”, was unrepentant as he celebrated a funeral ceremony for his alleged victim on Saturday.

In the terrifying video of the Russian school hostage siege, 10-year-old Georgy Farniyev sat near a bomb, his hands behind his head and his face a mask of misery.

The accordion Sima Alikova once played lies mute on a bed in her family’s living room, amid a pile of clothes, pictures, toys and even a toothbrush that she and her nine-year-old daughter, Irina, once used.

Holding up the corpse of a man just shot dead in front of hundreds of hostages at a Russian school, the rebel – his pockets stuffed with ammunition and grenades – warned: “If a child utters even a sound, we’ll kill another one.”

SWISS police yesterday arrested a man, who lost his wife and two children in a mid-air collision, on suspicion of stabbing to death the air traffic controller blamed for the crash.

The wife of a Russian general has confessed to killing her husband during a family quarrel.

By Dan Buckley