Some of the stranger stories from around the world

The woman in charge of the medical centre in Prague that treated British brain cancer survivor, Ashya King, said she is “over the moon” with his progress.

Europe has failed to agree how to share the burden of refugees daily entering the EU, as five countries either shut their borders or introduced border controls, leaving thousands of migrants in limbo and increasing pressure on other countries.

Cork Airport has expressed its disappointment at Czech Airlines’ decision to pull two routes before a single flight had taken off.

A German police officer has been found guilty of murder for killing a man he met in an internet chat forum devoted to cannibalism.

Ukraine’s citizens are fighting bravely against a ruthless aggressor and have been betrayed by the West who has abandoned them to their fate, write Petr Kolar and Juraj Mesík.

Mark English is through to tomorrow’s 800m final at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Prague.

A blistering opening morning session for the Irish team saw four athletes progress to semi-finals at the European Indoor Athletics Championships in Prague.

This really made us proud to be Irish today.

A man who went missing three weeks ago on a stag weekend in Prague has been found dead in the city’s river.

“Not once has Petr Cech knocked on my door to inform me of his desire to accept some proposal. This is my truth. Nothing more I can say.”

Every year, neo-Nazi groups march in the town of Wunsiedel. This year, the residents decided to get some good out of it.

Every year since the 1990s, extreme right-wing neo-Nazis from around Europe have made a sort-of pilgrimage to a small town in Germany.

Brain cancer patient Ashya King is set to undergo his last dose of proton therapy after his condition improved, the clinic treating him has said.

On 12th of this month we saw cattle standing knee-high in the river cooling off.

About 300 people are diagnosed with a brain tumour every year — high profile examples include singers Russell Watson and Sheryl Crow, who both survived.

Jamie Donaldson completed a "remarkable journey" from journeyman to hero at Gleneagles.

British boy Ashya King – at the centre of a legal dispute after his parents took him from a UK hospital without doctors’ consent – is receiving the first treatment for his brain tumour in the Czech capital.

Ashya King will make his first visit today to the Czech clinic where he is expected to receive the treatment that prompted the legal wrangle over his care.

The grandmother of brain tumour patient Ashya King said she was “relieved” his parents had been released from a Spanish prison but the authorities in the UK needed to be held to account.

Despite the passage of time, there are many parallels between the German Sudetenland and Crimean crises,writes Bobo Lo

A powerful explosion has damaged a building in the centre of the Czech capital Prague with people feared buried in the rubble.

B&F Meats, which had been accused by the Department of Agriculture of mislabelling horsemeat as beef of the Czech market, is back in business and yesterday said it “had not at any stage misrepresented the nature of its products”.

You’ve the squad memorised, and the tactics sussed. Ben Lyttleton and Iain MacIntosh help broaden fans’ minds a little further with some topographical titbits on the other 15 nations at Euro 2012.

Jiri Sliva credits his success to a series of chance meetings, says Tina O’Sullivan

THE first of May, a cold, wet day, a grey sky and trees still leafless across the field.

Hitler’s Hangman: The Life of Heydrich

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has paid tribute to Vaclav Havel, who is being laid to rest today.

The Republic of Ireland have today drawn Spain, Croatia and Italy in the Euro 2012 Championships.

THERE are fewer people dying in road accidents in this country than most of the other OECD countries, a report shows.

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.

A teenager who said he had been living in the woods for five years could have walked to Berlin from the Czech Republic.

KEEGAN BRADLEY’S victory in the US PGA Championship on Sunday was cause for celebration in Kenmare in the early hours of Monday but otherwise the week in Atlanta was a bitter disappointment for Ireland’s best.

National champion and record holder Paul Hession claimed a brace of second place finishes at today’s 60th running of the Cork City Sports meeting.

A runaway tram rolled from a depot through the Czech capital with the driver chasing behind it on a bicycle, an official said today.

UPON our return from Germany and the Czech Republic we were immediately grateful that we lived in Ireland where the temperature, as we drove west from Cork Airport, was 17.5°C.

AS we drove east from Munich after a comfortable flight from Cork with our national airline and its ever courteous staff, we crossed a range of heavily-wooded hills relieved by golden meadows: the gold being dandelions packed as tightly as pixels in a photograph.

BRITAIN has not benefited from European Union membership, according to nearly half the population, a new survey indicated yesterday.

CZECH president Vaclav Klaus rubbed salt into EU wounds yesterday by choosing Moscow to reveal that he never intends to sign the Lisbon Treaty.

The US today scrapped plans for a missile defence shield in eastern Europe that had raised new tensions with Russia.

The Czech government collapsed after losing a parliamentary no-confidence vote regarding its handling of the economic crisis.

IT SEEMS Youth Defence is spending €60,000 on their advertising campaign against stem cell research at UCC.

ROBINHO lit up the night sky as Manchester City got off to a winning start — a 3-2 win over FC Twente — in Group A of the UEFA Cup.

MANCHESTER CITY manager Mark Hughes believes Steve McClaren deserves credit for re-launching his career abroad.