One of the biggest public hospitals in Paris has reopened after a phoned-in bomb threat closed the facility for three hours, French officials said.

Update - 9.15am: Gardaí have said it was fortunate no one was killed in a “rough and ready” gun attack at a scrapyard in Dublin, according to Cormac O'Keeffe of the Irish Examiner.

Average land prices have fallen by 1.5% to €9,650 per acre in the six months to June, according to a survey issued by Sherry Fitzgerald estate agents.

Gardaí assured the safety of innocent bystanders when “potential assassins” aligned with the Kinahan crime cartel were arrested en route to carrying out their hit during the Ireland-Belgium Euro 2016 game on Saturday.

Holidaymakers are flocking to destinations in the western Mediterranean this summer as terror attacks are putting tourists off other traditionally popular locations, travel agents have said.

A child’s body was discovered in the wreckage of a collision between a truck and bus in south-west France, increasing the death toll to 43.

ON a quiet back-road in 6th century south-west Munster, a farmer and his son stumble upon the brutally beaten body of an unconscious young woman. 

ONE of the reasons Irish crime writing took so long to develop as a body of work is Ireland lacked the kind of large, anonymous urban settings where crime fiction tends to thrive. 

Any hope Cork had of catching the sleeping dog unawares has disappeared with their criticism of Mayo’s streetwise tactics

An alligator at least 10ft long lunged at a teenager swimming in a river and bit off his right arm below the elbow, Florida state wildlife officials said.

At least four people - three of them children - have died after a shooting at a Jewish school in south-west France.

Basque separatist group ETA, which renounced violence last month after spending more than 40 years trying to shoot and bomb its way into achieving an independent state, now says surrendering weapons is on its agenda, a newspaper reported today.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are donating $500,000 from their foundation to help Joplin rebuild after the deadly tornado which struck the south-west Missouri town last month.

A DELIGHTFUL sight in the Irish countryside, seen rarely enough these days, is that of a hare bounding along ears up at great speed, especially after being surprised by human, or canine, presence.

AS intermittent drizzle and low clouds enveloped Killarney yesterday, the television commentators at the 3 Irish Open Golf Championship eased off a little on the superlatives.

THE Irish Medicines Board (IMB) has warned the public about the danger of herbal medicines which claim to act as aphrodisiacs or “herbal Viagra”.

Workers ransacked offices at a French car parts factory today in a protest over job losses.

Another snowstorm pummelled parts of the American West, snarling post-holiday traffic, darkening lights on Christmas trees, and covering some Midwest highways with a dangerous sheet of ice.

Hundreds of thousands of survivors were trapped today as rescuers fought to reach towns along Bangladesh’s coast ravaged by a powerful cyclone that killed at least 1,723 people.

A French medical team today hailed as a success pioneering surgery on a man in near zero-gravity conditions on a flight looping in the air like a roller coaster to mimic weightlessness.

THE Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) will today announce the winner of the licence to operate a youth-focused radio station across the south-west.

TRANSPORT Minister Martin Cullen, has been urged to respond to speculation that Cork Airport will be left with a debt of €60 million on its new terminal.

CORK’S Red FM and Dublin’s SPIN went head-to-head in Limerick yesterday with final presentations to the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) for the licence to run a station to cater for the 15-34 age group in the South-West region.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have left Namibia with their newborn daughter and their two older children after a two month-stay at a luxury beach resort, it emerged today.

Film stars Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt today thanked Namibia for the privacy and peace they enjoyed for the birth of their daughter.

ANGELINA JOLIE and Brad Pitt have donated $300,000 (€235,256) to buy equipment for the maternity wards at Namibia’s state hospitals following the birth of their daughter in the south-west African nation.

THE United States and British foreign ministers made a surprise trip to Iraq yesterday in a bid to persuade the country's leaders to end nearly four months of wrangling and form a new government.

THE violent Basque separatist group ETA yesterday called for peace negotiations with Spain and France, warning them not to miss a historic chance for peace and said its "permanent" ceasefire will go into effect just after midnight.

The violent Basque separatist group ETA today called for peace negotiations with Spain and France, warning them not to miss a historic chance for peace and said its permanent ceasefire will go into effect just after midnight.

Some 3,000 police fanned out around Paris today ahead of feared weekend attacks on high-profile targets such as the Eiffel Tower, as the number of vehicles torched overnight rose slightly elsewhere in France, according to officials.

AT least 43 people were killed and another 89 injured yesterday in three car bomb attacks near a bus station and hospital in Baghdad.

Yasser Arafat is hovering “between life and death” in a coma, Palestinian and French officials say.

Spain vowed today to crush the Basque separatist group Eta following the arrest of its alleged leader and seizure of a vast weapons arsenal in raids in France described as virtually decapitating the organisation.

THE number of people claiming unemployment benefits fell by more than 4,200 last month, according to the Central Statistics Office (CSO).

RYANAIR has denied it is using a little-known, Isle of Man-based company as a vehicle to circumvent an EU ban on regional and State aid.

UP TO 700 jobs are at risk because of soaring insurance costs and pressure from inflation, the chief executive of Shannon Development warned yesterday.

THE number of US troops using Shannon Airport will increase dramatically in the coming days as the American Army reinforces its numbers in the Gulf.

The Jeanie Johnston, a nostalgic replica of a 19th century “famine ship” making its way slowly from Ireland to America, docked today at the Portuguese island of Madeira, her wave-battered sailors reported.

Around 50 businesses are believed to have been hit by forgers last week, according to a Sunday newspaper.

The Angolan government has today displayed the body of Jonas Savimbi, the leader of the UNITA rebels who was killed in a gunfight with army soldiers on Friday.