A cargo ship believed to be carrying hundreds of migrants has turned towards Italy, brushing off Greek authorities responding to a distress call from one of its passengers.

A cargo ship believed to be carrying hundreds of migrants has turned towards Italy, brushing off Greek authorities responding to a distress call from a passenger.

Twelve migrants have been found dead and a further 15 rescued after a boat capsized in western Greece, authorities said.

Where does a travel writer bring his family for a break? When in Ireland, Pol returns again and again to Wicklow’s ‘local secret’, Silver Strand, part of a beautiful stretch of coastline on the east coast.

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.

AT the Midleton Farmers Market this weekend, we’ll have the first of the new season’s olive oil for customers to taste.

Rescue crews evacuated 25 passengers from a sinking boat on the Ionian Sea today, Greek officials said.

For weeks, the creaky Balkan Sky, loaded with more than 600 tons of explosives, languished off the Turkish coast waiting for orders to set sail for Sudan with tons of explosives.

A Greek coastguard vessel has rescued 1,000 illegal immigrants who were adrift on a ship which suffered mechanical failure off an island in the Ionian Sea.