NORWAY: A trickle of asylum seekers from Syria and the Mediterranean region have found an unlikely route into Europe: Through Russia to a remote Arctic border post in Norway, partly on bicycles.

ENGLAND: Covered entirely in crystals, it may not be to everybody’s taste — but a £420,000 (€582,430) piano is possibly the most bling musical instrument in the world.

An Irish wildlife park has played a key role saving Europe’s largest land mammal from extinction.

Fota Wildlife Park has helped to translocate six European bison to the wild.

A company which runs the two wild animal parks of deceased millionaire John Aspinall was today appearing in court charged with six health and safety breaches after the death of an elephant keeper at one of the zoos.