Croatian police have filed disorderly conduct charges against two people who allegedly used a racial slur to insult Hollywood actor Jamie Foxx in a restaurant.

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Members of the crew of an Italian ferry which caught fire at sea may have fled the ship before passengers, a British showjumper who survived the disaster has claimed.

‘We experienced the Titanic — the only thing was we didn’t sink’.

The death toll in the Greek ferry fire has risen to 10 and rescuers are checking to see if anyone else might still be missing.

The death toll in the Greek ferry fire has risen to eight and rescuers are checking to see if anyone else might still be missing.

The evacuation of the Greek ferry that caught fire off Albania has been completed, officials say, and only the vessel’s captain and four Italian sailors remain on board to assist in the operation.

A cargo ship carrying 49 people evacuated from a Greek ferry which caught fire in the Adriatic Sea have arrived in the Italian port of Bari, the first big group to reach land.

One person has died while attempting to escape from a blazing ferry stranded in the Adriatic Sea, and another was injured, an Italian Coast Guard official says.

Forget about Hawaii or Florida, the buzzword among American retirees is Ireland, either Youghal, Co Cork, or Co Clare — either of which when it comes to affordable homes is hotter than anywhere Stateside.

Irish exploration company Petroceltic has been awarded two licences off the coast of Italy.

Thirty-eight more people have died as freezing weather grips Ukraine, authorities say.

Thirty-eight more people have died as freezing weather grips Ukraine, authorities say.

Some 11,000 villagers have been trapped by heavy snow and blizzards as the death toll from Eastern Europe’s cold spell rose to 113.

Rescue helicopters evacuated dozens of people from snow-blocked villages in Serbia and Bosnia and airlifted in emergency food and medicine as a severe cold spell kept eastern Europe in its icy grip.

The Italian coast guard says it has called off the search for a pair of American balloonists who went missing last week in the Adriatic Sea.

COAST guards are hunting for two missing American balloonists last detected piloting their craft over the Adriatic Sea in rough weather, officials said yesterday.

AS IF the result in Dublin wasn’t enough of a bubble-burster, Italy had to go and canter to the most straightforward of wins on what was supposed to be a potentially tricky, if short, hop across the Adriatic Sea.

Filip Vujanovic won Montenegro’s first presidential elections since it split from Serbia two years ago, according to an independent vote monitoring group.

Montenegrins voted today in the tiny Balkan state’s first presidential election since it split from Serbia two years ago.

Petroceltic International has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Petroceltic Elsa Srl, has been notified that approval has been granted for the Civitaquana exploration permit onshore Italy.

Albania signed a £14m (€20.73m) deal with Britain’s MedOil PLC today for oil exploration rights in its Ionian and Adriatic Seas, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Energy said.

Montenegro’s state electoral commission today confirmed the victory of a pro-independence bloc in a referendum to secede from Serbia and form a separate state.

Independence backers declared victory at Montenegro’s vote on secession from Serbia, although the unionists refused to concede defeat.

A group of engineers and geology experts said today they are considering injecting sea water under Venice to raise the waterlogged Italian city 12ins and rescue it from the tides and floods that bedevil it.

Montenegro’s government is looking to lease the exclusive Sveti Stefan resort on the Adriatic Sea, a former summer mecca for Hollywood stars that has fallen into decline since the Balkan wars of the 1990s.

Ramco Energy, the Aberdeen-based exploration and production company, announced that its subsidiaries Medusa (Montenegro) Limited and Medusa Oil & Gas Limited have reached agreement to restructure their exploration interests in the Adriatic Sea off Montenegro.

POLICE yesterday said they arrested two Albanians planning to smuggle seven people by speedboat to neighbouring Italy.

A 10-DAY manhunt for the suspected killer of a policeman ended in bloodshed before tourists in Rome where the fugitive, nicknamed The Wolf, grabbed a Frenchwoman at gunpoint before he was fatally wounded in a shootout.

A ship crammed with about 900 clandestine immigrants, including many children, was towed under police escort to Italy’s southern coast today after it was stranded in the Adriatic Sea, authorities said.