France is set to provide total budgetary support for Haiti.

THE European Parliament failed to halt the decline in voter interest as the elections registered its lowest ever turnout over the past 20 years at 43%.

The fighting in Georgia tonight threatened to bring relations between Russia and America to a new low as the two superpowers exchanged insults and threats.

TENSIONS surrounding French President Nicholas Sarkozy’s lightning strike visit to Dublin erupted into the open last night as he was warned not to dare “dictate” to Ireland.

Pirates have freed 30 hostages held on a tourist yacht off Somalia.

PRESIDENT Nicholas Sarkozy might have just got remarried, but his love affair with the French electorate appears well and truly over.

With nine million immigrants living in France, the state can no longer afford to turn a blind eye to the discrimination at the root of the country’s rioting youths, writes Europe Correspondent Ann Cahill.

WE have never had it so good and we have a Taoiseach who has been in power for 10 years, gaining enormous experience, and we expect him to live like the poor relation of those leaders with whom he has to mix.

NEWS coverage of the departure of Steve Staunton as manager of Ireland’s soccer team was quite a spectacle. RTÉ was scathing about the supposedly “shambolic” way in which things were handled at the end.

BERTIE AHERN threw his hat into the ring for the job of first European Union President, but he might have to fight off his old friend Tony Blair for the post.

Barbara Streisand has been awarded France's most coveted prize after she was inducted into the French Legion Of Honour.

IT’S being billed as the battle of the Summit Queen versus the Polish Twins.