Boat owners have been warned to secure their outboard motors amid an increase in engine thefts which amounts to €75m a year across Europe.

A LITHUANIAN military plane has crashed after colliding in mid-air with a French Nato jet.

A Lithuanian military plane has crashed after colliding in mid-air with a French Nato jet, officials said.

FARMERS reported getting up to €155 per tonne for spring barley at 20% moisture (exclusive of VAT) last week, as unprecedented global grain market uncertainty forced the feed industry to buy locally for their strategic needs.

Plane-loads of cheap cigarettes flown in from Eastern Europe are fuelling heavy smoking among Ireland’s Poles, a government minister claimed today.

TUBERCULOSIS in a new, more deadly form poses the disease’s greatest threat to Europe since World War II, world health officials said yesterday.

In a rare warning to Americans living or travelling in the Nordic and Baltic region, United States embassies in the area said they had received ”threat information” and warned them to be cautious.

ALMOST 9,000 counterfeit euro notes - worth approximately €430,000 - were taken out of the Irish economy in the first six months of this year.

The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, is due to embark on a three-day tour of Scandinavian and Baltic countries today to lay the groundwork for the resumption of negotiations on the proposed EU constitution.

The head of a government commission investigating the air show crash in Lviv that killed 84 people said poor organisation of the show and pilot error were main reasons for the crash, it was reported today.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center has asked Venezuela to help find 18 alleged Nazi war criminals it says are believed to be living in the South American nation.