Police in southern Germany found several suspect containers in Lake Constance and were investigating a threat to poison the waters, authorities said today.

HOLIDAY 2005 magazine, an annual guide to the world of holidays and travel from Ireland and within, is on sale in newsagents from this week.

A MID-AIR collision involving two large passenger aircraft was narrowly avoided over the Atlantic Ocean off Ireland last November, it has emerged.

Swiss prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into the collision between two airliners that killed 71 people 35,000ft above southern Germany.

Swiss prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation into the collision between two airliners that killed 71 people 35,000ft above southern Germany.

Rescue workers started seeking counselling today to cope with the horrors of recovering body parts from the midair collision over southern Germany that killed 71 people.

Scores of people are feared dead after a Russian passenger jet with dozens of people on board and a cargo plane collided over southern Germany.

Scores of people were feared dead today after a Tupolev 154 and a Boeing 757 airliner collided over the southern German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg.

Two passenger trains have crashed head-on in Germany, injuring 90 people.