UNITED KINGDOM (REUTERS) – British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday (Dec 17) that she intended to reschedule a delayed vote in Parliament on her Brexit plan in the week starting on Jan 14.  It comes as new data from Visa shows British consumer spending fell by the most since July last month, adding […]

Cheap and cheerful clothes made from cotton fields with a big carbon footprint and a huge thirst for water. And the clothes aren’t designed to last long. More than 300,000 tonnes of textiles end up in landfill each year. Take, make and waste. So the government’s Resources and Waste Strategy – if it comes to […]

ATHENS — A powerful bomb detonated outside a major Greek broadcaster and newspaper publisher near Athens early Monday, causing serious damage to the facade of the building but no injuries. Greek politicians across the spectrum condemned it as an “attack on democracy.” The blast occurred at 2:37 a.m. outside the building of the Skai television […]

The murder of a 26-year-old woman who had crossed Spain for a teaching job has sparked outrage in the country, the latest high-profile case to put the spotlight on gender violence. Laura Luelmo’s partially naked body was found near the southern village of El Campillo after five days of searching. The murder is being investigated. […]

Latest figures show that two-thirds of those carrying a knife escape a custodial sentence and one-in-five repeat offenders are still avoiding prison, despite the government introducing a “two-strikes and you’re out” policy for those caught with a knife on more than one occasion. John Apter, chairman of the Police Federation, the body representing rank-and-file police […]

More than €1,000 has been raised for an elderly woman who had her Christmas pension stolen by heartless thieves pretending to do work at her house. A whip-round held by a Dublin north-inner-city pub and a collection box at the till of her local shop is set to ensure that the woman (92) will end […]

Gloria Chochi is serving six years in prison in Spain for killing her abusive former partner. She is now pinning her hopes of being reunited with her son on a rare pardon. This is her story. Their troubled relationship had ended but as Williams Richards kept coming back, each time with more threats, Chochi decided […]

The crowds in the snow and ice outside the state TV building were the strangest and most colourful mix of protesters I have seen in Hungary in over 30 years. Supporters of the nationalist Jobbik party rubbed shoulders with students sporting badges in solidarity with the Central European University. The daily protests against Prime Minister […]

Adam Thomas, 22, and Claudia Patatas, 38, from Banbury, Oxfordshire, were found guilty of being members of National Action – an extreme right-wing group, which was banned in 2016. Jurors at Birmingham Crown Court had heard how Thomas, a former Amazon security guard, and Patatas, a wedding photographer, gave their child the middle name “Adolf”. […]

A jury has begun deliberations in the trial of a serving garda charged with dangerous driving causing the death of an elderly pedestrian four years ago. Warren Farrell (35), a garda serving in Clondalkin, Co Dublin, was on duty as the driver of a marked patrol car that was responding to a panic button call […]