Gardaí have teamed up with the PSNI in an operation aimed at tackling fish poaching in Strabane.

The eventual arrival of yesterday’s heatwave promised fertile conditions for a spiritual revisit of sorts to ‘The Second Summer of Love,’ that halcyon time at the end of the 1980s when Acid House exploded and outdoor raves proliferated across the UK.

A 23-year-old man has been charged with raping a young woman using a cucumber or courgette.

The man who was arrested almost three weeks into a rape investigation for questioning made a reference to the laneway at the centre of the case as he was being driven past it in a patrol car, the arresting officer said.

US president Donald Trump has defended his call to the widow of an American soldier killed in Niger, saying he was "respectful" and that he did not forget the soldier's name.

A law student whose dangerous driving caused the death of a mother and daughter last Christmas was banned from driving for 15 years and given a suspended jail sentence today.

"If he falls down, I’m gonna help him.”

Recently released CCTV footage shows the moment inmates in a Texas jail broke out of their cell - to raise the alarm that a guard had collapsed.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

The incredible escape was caught on video by a passerby.

In what has to be everyone’s worst nightmare, a mother in Pyeongtaek, South Korea was forced to drop her children, one by one, from the fourth story of a burning apartment block, before jumping herself.

Since 1898, Dublin Fire Brigade ran the ambulance service and the emergence of the log book of the brigade’s headquarters in Tara Street from 1916 bears witness to the efforts to deal with the battle waging on the streets and the people affected, writes Las Fallon

USA: A Massachusetts man reading a book at the beach found a box containing human ashes. George Silva told The Standard-Times he found the box wedged in the rocks, in New Bedford, on Tuesday. Inside was a bag that had the name and number of a New Jersey crematorium.

USA: Kerri Bunker and Kelli Wall know a thing or two about twins. The two women are identical twins who already each have one set of twins. Now, they are getting ready to each have a second set of twins next spring.

USA: San Francisco has painted nine walls with a repellent material that makes pee spray back off them in a bid to tackle public urination.

A young heroin addict who held a syringe to his father’s neck in Youghal and threatened to infect him and kill him was yesterday given a three-year jail sentence with the last year suspended.

Judge the German Shepherd was with the West Deptford Police Department in New Jersey for seven years and was involved in over 150 arrests.

Two US boys whose parents became alarmed when they did not come home from playing in the snow were found hours later buried in a snow bank.

This is very sweet.

A teenager driving a stolen car leads cops on a merry chase. Enter guy with truck.

Foul play by council causes a bit of a stink

Go to a Halloween party dressed as The Joker, they said. Be grand, they said.

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried in an undisclosed location outside the city of Worcester, police said after a frustrating week-long search for a community willing to take the body.

Mila Kunis has agreed to go on a date with an American Marine.

The High Court has today remanded in custody a 19-year-old woman wanted in Lithuania on charges of sexually assaulting of another female.

A garda sergeant has lost his High Court bid aimed at quashing the Garda Ombudsman's decision to investigate allegations that the Sergeant harassed a man over a four-year period.

A GARDA who was instructed to topple over on a mountain bike as part of a training procedure and then broke his left collarbone has been awarded €19,000 in damages at Cork Circuit Court.

The High Court has today granted permission to a Co Donegal-based Garda Sergeant to bring a challenge aimed at quashing the Garda Ombudsman's decision to conduct an investigation into allegations that the Garda has harassed a man over a four-year period.

Police today shot dead the prime suspect in the murder of four Seattle officers.

The main suspect in the murders of four US police officers shot as they sat in a coffee shop was gunned down as he hid in a house today.

Former Cork hurling boss Gerald McCarthy was told he would get a bullet in the back of the head if he did not stand down as manager, when he received a threatening phone call Cork District Court heard today.

A boy allegedly abducted in a custody dispute two years ago has been found alive, hidden behind a wall at his grandmother’s home.

Cynthia Mary Roberson is an unemployed mother who police say led her sons, aged 12 and 14, and their friends to commit at least 20 armed robberies and assaults, including the beating of a teenage boy who had nothing more than an orange lollipop.

A US man who showed up dressed as Santa Claus at his ex-wife’s parents’ Christmas Eve party and killed at least eight people reached a divorce settlement with her days earlier.

A man plotting revenge against his ex-wife dressed up like Santa, went to his former in-laws’ Christmas Eve party and slaughtered at least eight people before killing himself.

A middle-aged man who threw a lit tissue through the letterbox of the southern headquarters of the Health Service Executive, causing more than €2m in damage, was today jailed for two years for arson.

A military jury has found a soldier guilty of murder following the rape and death of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and her family.

A jury sentenced a US Marine corporal today to time served and reduced his rank to private for conspiring to murder an Iraqi civilian during a frustrated search for an insurgent.

US actress Lindsay Lohan was was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving early today, California authorities said.

Police arrested a Thai soldier for participating in an attack by 30 men on three British tourists as they ate at a food stall north of the Thai capital, police said today.

Two US Army soldiers have been charged with the premeditated murder of an Iraqi and a lieutenant colonel has been relieved of command in connection with the case, the US military announced today.

A US search team on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima is zeroing in on a cave where a Marine combat photographer who filmed the famous flag-raising 62 years ago is believed to have been killed in battle nine days later.

Rapper Snoop Dogg was arrested last night for investigation of illegally possessing a handgun and drugs as he left NBC Studios after performing on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, police said.