Ireland was not included in Britain’s conscription bill of January, 1916, but by then 90,000 Irishmen had volunteered, as many more would before 1918.

USA: Pope Francis is a doll. No, really. Organisers of the Pontiff’s September visit to Philadelphia this week launched an online store featuring Papal plush dolls and bobble heads.

Public measures do not fall into EU state aid regulations unless their impact extends across borders into other EU member states, writes Margrethe Vestager, the EU competition commissioner

A message in a bottle tossed in the sea in Germany 101 years ago, believed to be the world’s oldest, has been presented to the sender’s granddaughter, a museum said.

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Prosecutors in northern Poland were last night questioning a woman suspected of killing her three newborn boys whose bodies were found in the family’s freezer.

Show jumper Billy Twomey’s fourth place in the World Cup qualifier at Leipzig, Germany, has propelled him to the top of the Olympic rankings, according to Horse Sport Ireland, while Jessica Kürten posted her first major grand prix win in over a year in Amsterdam.

MORE intensive farming produces a lesser carbon footprint than allowing cattle to graze freely, according to two presentations at a recent Alltech conference in Kentucky, USA.

CORK WEEK chairman Peter Deasy said he is pleased with the level of support for the bi-annual regatta and is also looking forward to welcoming more yachts and crew in July.

AS algal blooms turn coastlines green across Europe, solutions to the problem may include a new collaboration between land and sea farmers, producing shellfish and seaweed for the food industry while removing the excess nutrients in the sea that cause bloom.

Jessica Kurten was in the prize money at Kiel, Germany last night with a noteworthy third place in the Grand Prix Qualifier.

IN THE latest case to shock Germany, authorities said yesterday they discovered three dead babies in a freezer and arrested the woman believed to be the mother.

IRISH FERRIES formally named its new €50 million ferry, Oscar Wilde, in Dublin Port yesterday as the company again faced criticism about pay and conditions for staff working on its vessels.

FIVE children between the ages of three and nine were found dead in a house in the northern German village of Darry yesterday, police said.

A man accused of raising money for al-qaida in Iraq and helping to supply foreign fighters for the insurgency there went on trial today in Germany.

German police arrested a third suspect today in connection with a failed attempt to blow up two trains, and Lebanese authorities picked up a fourth man as the investigation gathered steam, officials said.

A judge today ordered that a Lebanese student suspected of planting one of two bombs that failed to explode on German trains be held in custody pending possible terrorism charges, prosecutors said.

A German of Moroccan descent has been arrested in Hamburg on suspicion that he is a member of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida terrorist network with contacts to a man close to the September 11 hijackers, federal prosecutors said today.

The European Central Bank has been urged not to raise interest rates too quickly as the current low level of rates in the euro zone is aiding the modest economic growth in Germany.

At least 50 Parisians have died of heat-related illnesses after a week of record-setting temperatures, a French medical expert says.