A thriving colony of Mediterranean French earthworms has been found on a farm in Dublin.

Ten people suspected of ties to radical Islamist websites have been arrested in raids across France.

Spain's government has rejected a permanent ceasefire declared by the terrorist group ETA, because it believes it does not go far enough.

Spanish police arrested 13 suspected members of a group considered to be the youth branch of the armed Basque organisation ETA today.

Spanish police said today that they have arrested seven suspected members of the armed Basque group ETA, maintaining pressure on the organisation despite its recent ceasefire announcement.

The Basque regional government delivered a rebuff to ETA after the armed separatist group announced another ceasefire and suggested it might turn to a political process in its quest for an independent homeland.

The Basque separatist militant group ETA declared a ceasefire in a video statement issued today.

Three members of Basque separatist group Eta were jailed for 1,000 years each today for a bombing that killed two people at Madrid airport.

Spanish police arrested 36 suspected members of a youth organisation outlawed for its links to the armed group ETA, officials said today.

The armed Basque separatist group Eta today claimed responsibility for a series of recent attacks, including a car bomb in Madrid.

BASQUE voters were choosing a new government yesterday in Spain’s most turbulent region, and for the first time the ruling Basque Nationalist Party is seeing a strong challenge from the socialists.

Part of a sports centre collapsed in high winds today in the northern Spanish city of Barcelona, killing four children and injuring 16 other people, officials and witnesses said.

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen has signed a memo of understanding with China with regard to the export of bovine semen from Ireland.

I’M starting with a request — well, really it’s a heartfelt plea. I put an email address at the end of my column.

Seven police were injured when a massive bomb exploded in the northern Spanish city of Bilbao today

The entire top leadership of an outlawed Basque political party linked to Spanish terrorist group ETA have been arrested in a police raid.

AGRICULTURAL workers are more than doubling their risk of developing brain tumours due to the high levels of pesticides they are using.

French counter-terrorism police arrested nine suspects today in a pre-dawn sweep aimed at breaking up an alleged al-Qaida-linked recruiting network to send radical Islamic fighters to Iraq, the Interior Ministry said.

French wildlife officials have released a fifth bear into the Pyrenees, the final step in a programme to repopulate the region in south-western France, the Environment Ministry said today.

Students protesting against France’s new youth labour law blocked a convoy carrying parts of an Airbus A380 superjumbo jet to a factory in south-western France today.

Basque militant group ETA ended a decades-long campaign of terror, announcing a permanent ceasefire that closes the door on one of western Europe’s last armed separatist movements.

Tens of thousands of students and workers marched in Paris and other French cities today in what was expected to be the biggest show of anger yet at a jobs plan that has led to violence in the streets and threatens to weaken the government.

A French man has today been convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison for drugging his children’s tennis rivals, leading to one death.

A retired soldier was going on trial in south-western France today for allegedly drugging his children's tennis rivals to worsen their game, leading to death in one player’s case.

IN Geneva, they read patriotic poetry. In Vienna, they drowned their sorrows and plotted their revenge. In London, they staged a candlelight protest outside the US Embassy.

In Geneva, they’ll read patriotic poetry. In Vienna, they’ll drown their sorrows and plot their revenge.

The Basque parliament has approved a proposal for virtual independence from Spain, with last-minute support from a formerly-banned party seen as the political wing of the separatist group ETA.

The Basque parliament tonight approved a proposal for virtual independence from Spain, with last-minute support from a formerly banned party seen as the political wing of the separatist group ETA.

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 EU was urgently looking for eight people who came in contact with a rabid dog in south-western France last month to ensure they have not contracted the dangerous virus.

French rock star Bertrand Cantat, serving eight years in Lithuania for the manslaughter of his actress girlfriend, is to be transferred to a prison on his homeland.

France’s highest court today rejected an appeal by convicted Nazi-era collaborator Maurice Papon against his sentence for complicity in crimes against humanity.

A cache of explosives allegedly belonging to the outlawed Basque separatist group ETA and ready for immediate use was found near the French border with Spain, Spain's interior minister said today.

At least one person has died after violent storms swept across south-western France, knocking down trees and causing dozens of injuries.

Two passenger trains collided in south-western France after one of the trains derailed when it hit a crane that had fallen on to the tracks from a nearby construction site, police said.