The parents of terminally-ill baby Charlie Gard are preparing for another legal battle with doctors at the UK's most famous children's hospital.

The parents of terminally-ill baby Charlie Gard have been told to spell out fresh evidence which might persuade a judge to let them take their child abroad for treatment.

Hospital bosses say staff are likely to spend days planning the withdrawal of life-support treatment from a terminally ill baby at the centre of a high-profile legal battle.

A High Court judge in April ruled against a trip to the US and in favour of Great Ormond Street doctors.

Pharmaceutical firms could be forced to provide life- saving drugs to patients at reasonable prices under a new cross-EU plan suggested by Health Minister Simon Harris.

A court has convicted a former Miss Turkey of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan through social media postings and handed her a 14-month suspended sentence.

The planned deployment of around 140 crack troops on a major EU exercise has been called off as the Government failed to sign a special agreement to indemnify soldiers on duty abroad.

German relatives of three people killed in the downing of Malaysia Airline Flight 17 plan to sue Ukraine for negligence, a lawyer for the families said yesterday.

Europe’s top human rights court ruled Poland violated the rights of two terror suspects by allowing the CIA to secretly imprison them on Polish soil from 2002-2003 and facilitating the conditions under which they were subject to torture.

The European Parliament yesterday voted in favour of three climate and energy targets for 2030, rebuffing a commission plan for just one binding goal.

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Germany is under pressure from the Council of Europe’s anti-torture committee to do away with surgical castration of sex offenders.

The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Russia to pay more than a million euro to dozens of plaintiffs over the country’s bungled efforts to end a Moscow theatre siege in 2002.

George Michael is responding "well" to treatment for pneumonia.

The leaders of Germany, France and Italy are meeting for debate on the European Central Bank’s role in the region’s debt crisis and on how to align eurozone economic policies.

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that France did not violate financier George Soros’ rights when convicting him of insider trading.

THE large attendance from West Cork at this week’s National Ploughing Championships was thrilled with the performance of its team in the 21 ploughing competitions at the centre of the event.

An aid flotilla will leave for the Gaza Strip in the third week of June, just more than a year after a similar flotilla was raided by Israeli forces, leaving nine people dead on a Turkish boat, activists say.

THE sky is the limit for ambitious young people, but one young Irish rocket scientist is hoping to go a bit further than that by becoming the first Irish-born person in outer space.

Crucifixes can be displayed in state school classrooms, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled .

THE EU needs to double its efforts to boost energy efficiency in order to cut greenhouse gases, the European Commission warned yesterday.

Four judges have spoken out to defend awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to US president Barack Obama.

RECENTLY, US President Barack Obama spoke to a hall of students and youths in Strasbourg, France.

North Korea said today preparations to launch its controversial satellite were complete and lift-off was imminent.

ONE is a role model, the other a fashion model. One likes to bare her arms, the other — well, she bares it all.

A Russian lawyer has said she suspects she and her family were poisoned by mercury found in her car, keeping her away from the start of the trial of three men accused in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

Britain is to delay the extradition of radical Muslim preacher Abu Hamza to the US to face charges that he helped set up an al Qaida terror training camp.

Britain today denied claims by Zimbabwe’s government of a letter from British prime minister Gordon Brown that it said proved opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was plotting with the UK to overthrow President Robert Mugabe.

The president of the European Parliament today met with Pope Benedict XVI and invited the pontiff to address a plenary session of the legislature.

The European Union must change “inaccurate and misleading” advice it gives to airline passengers seeking compensation when their flights are cancelled, delayed or overbooked, the EU’s ombudsman said today.

The head of Europe’s human rights watchdog said “appropriate action” would be taken against countries who did not take legal steps to prevent their airports being used for CIA flights of terror suspects or their territory for secret detention centres.

European governments are not willing to reveal what they know about US intelligence service activities on their territory, effectively obstructing an investigation into allegations of CIA secret prisons and flights in Europe, Human Rights Watch said it planned to tell the European Parliament tomorrow.

The European Parliament today urged EU member states to increase their pressure on Cuba to release all political prisoners.

Demonstrators hurled rocks and logs at the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France, today, smashing several windows as they protested against plans to liberalise port services across the European Union.

US policies in the war on terror are contravening international laws on human rights, a top European investigator says.

Frustrated by the lack of progress in various European probes, senior EU parliamentarians today decided to set up their own committee to investigate allegations of CIA secret prisons in eastern Europe.

Europe’s leading human rights watchdog said today it soon hopes to be able to monitor satellite footage of suspect sites in Romania and Poland as part of its investigation into alleged secret CIA prisons and flights in Europe.

A European Parliament committee criticised EU governments today for failing to address concern about CIA activities on European territory, and said allegations of CIA secret prisons and flights were now “beyond speculation".

A Cypriot airliner ploughed into a hill north of Athens today, killing all 121 people on board, Greek officials said.

THE European Parliament has rejected a law on patents for software, ending a three-year effort by companies including Nokia Oyj and Siemens AG to counter US domination of Europe’s $60 billion (€50.3bn) market.

Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski said today that Western European governments have a duty to support democratic reforms in countries on Europe’s eastern fringe.

The European Union nations today failed to agree on lifting their 15-year-old ban on arms sales to China, a proposal that had drawn heavy criticism from the US and exposed internal divisions.

Chechen rebel leader Aslan Maskhadov’s killing represents a rare propaganda victory for President Vladimir Putin and his hard-line approach to battling separatists.