Darren Cassey gives his thoughts on the new Lexus LC.

The US and five other world powers have approved Iran importing as much as 130 tons of uranium, Iran's English language Press TV reported.

US: The Yellow Cloud electric guitar that Prince played in numerous concerts has been sold for more than £100,000 at an auction in the US.

The Austrian authorities say around 4,500 refugees overran their border with Slovenia at Spielfeld on Tuesday afternoon.

The UN has warned that it could see no easing of the flow of refugees into Europe, with 8,000 arrivals daily, and that problems now facing governments may turn out to be only “the tip of the iceberg”.

Hundreds of migrants and refugees have been gathering at the Austrian German border following Berlin’s decision to reintroduce border checks on Sunday. 

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.

Germany pulled down the shutters on its borders, temporarily exiting the Schengen system and triggering a crisis as diplomats from all the EU countries struggled to reach agreement on the refugee problem in Brussels last night.

The unfolding refugee crisis is become the biggest humanitarian tragedy in Europe since the Yugoslav wars.

Thousands of refugees yesterday streamed into Germany — many travelling through Austria from Hungary where they had been stranded against their will for days — while EU governments argue over how to respond.

A Trinity graduate is due home after a US robbery jail term; 185 new jobs have been announced in Dublin and Wexford; and Facebook is to build a new €200m data centre in Ireland. Just some of the latest and most read stories on irishexaminer.com.

Oil fell in 2014 by the most since the 2008 global financial crisis as US producers and the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries ceded no ground in their battle for market share amid a supply glut.

Manchester United defender Phil Jones is expected to meet with the club’s medical staff on Tuesday as the Red Devils wait to discover the extent of the injury he sustained on England duty.

A baby has been delivered in the Austrian alps after its mother went into labour on a mountain.

A baby has been delivered in the Austrian alps after its mother went into labour on a mountain.

A cave researcher is close to seeing the light of day again after suffering head injuries in an accident deep underground in Germany nearly two weeks ago.

An injured researcher stuck deep inside an Alpine cave in Germany is able to walk with help, but an operation to bring him out could still take several days, mountain rescue officials said.

With river cruises reaching the cities and countryside ocean-going ships cannot, it’s little wonder they’re enjoying a boom, says Pól Ó Conghaile

Live online streaming of the Millstreet International Horse Show drew viewers from across the globe at the weekend.

Germany has dispatched thousands of soldiers to help cities and towns cope with flooding from the rain-soaked Danube and other southern rivers, a day after the Bavarian city of Passau saw its worst flooding since 1501.

BABY it’s cold outside.

Internationally renowned Romanian pianist Mihaela Ursuleasa has been found dead in her apartment in the Austrian capital. She was 33.

Dutch Prince Johan Friso was in critical but stable condition in intensive care yesterday after an avalanche buried him while he was skiing off piste in the Austrian alps.

CO DOWN show jumpers Conor Swail and Dermott Lennon continued to impact at the Toronto World Cup show in Canada, placing third and fourth, respectively, in Saturday’s Ricoh Big Ben Challenge.

THE sky was so blue and the sun so warm that my son and his pal took off their shirts to enjoy the weather as they drank raspberry beer outside a bar overlooking the River Vltava in the pretty town of Ceské Budejovice in Lower Bohemia in the Czech Republic.

PART of a €80,000 haul of jewellery stolen from a shop in county Cork has been seized by police in Germany.

The far-right resurged in local elections in Vienna, the Austrian capital, securing the biggest gains in votes and mandates following a campaign laced with anti-Islamic rhetoric.

The largest Russia-US spy swap since the Cold War appeared to be in motion today, with up to 10 guilty pleas planned in New York by defendants accused of spying for Russia in exchange for the release of convicted Russian spies.

The Austrian capital Vienna has been named as the best city in the world to live in.

Rafael Benitez is still battling to keep Javier Mascherano at Liverpool in the wake of Xabi Alonso making his position with the club virtually untenable.

Damien Enright on a journey through Eastern Europe.

Now there’s a great idea for a song title. Though, like the noted Mancunian poet, John Cooper Clarke, I’d probably only end up getting ripped off by the unscrupulous music biz if I bothered to flesh it out.

Coach Luis Aragones has played down any suggestion of tension or unrest in the Spain camp as his side prepare to face world champions Italy in the quarter-finals of Euro 2008.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern today begins a three-day visit to Slovenia, Austria and Poland offering some relief from the controversy around his financial affairs.

Police in the Austrian capital today said they were interrogating a young German citizen suspected of murdering a fellow homeless man and possibly eating his entrails.

MANY people think that zoos exist just to show off exotic animals and, indeed, educating the public is an important part of a modern zoo’s work.

Iran is ready to comply – at least temporarily – with a UN Security Council demand that it freeze uranium enrichment and has said so at talks with a senior European negotiator, diplomats said today.

Talks meant to give Tehran a last chance to avoid UN sanctions were in jeopardy today, with diplomats and European officials saying Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator had still not given word whether he would meet with the European Union’s foreign policy chief.

A young brown bear that emerged from dense forests in the south-western Austrian province of Vorarlberg and attacked three sheep in a stall earlier this week has become the talk of the town in the region, where the species was last spotted in 1860.

An avalanche buried at least six people – five schoolchildren and a teacher - in the Austrian province of Salzburg today, an official said.

Right-wing British historian David Irving, who was convicted by an Austrian court of denying the Holocaust, has been barred from speaking with the press, a court spokeswoman said today.

A grey heron found dead in a suburb of Slovenia’s northeastern city of Maribor was infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, the Agriculture Ministry said today.

A DISGRACED Austrian ski coach left behind syringes in the home he rented for the Turin Olympics, and more details were revealed yesterday about what was seized in a surprise weekend raid on the living quarters of athletes and staff - including unlabeled drugs and a blood transfusion machine.