Spanish authorities have introduced new driving restrictions in the centre of the country’s capital, Madrid, aimed at reducing air pollution by up to 40%. The tough measures mean motorists will have to test their vehicles’ emissions, with the oldest and most polluting vehicles banned from the city centre. Drivers entering the controlled zone in breach […]

BERLIN — Like many people, Volker Kutscher reads daily newspapers to keep up with things. What’s less usual is that the two papers he relies on, the Vossische Zeitung and the Berliner Tageblatt, have been out of print for more than seven decades. In the papers — which he reads front to back on microfilm […]

A Latvian man who was charged with murder despite telling gardai that his partner fell down the stairs has been acquitted of her murder by a jury at the Central Criminal Court. Justice Tara Burns thanked the jury of eight men and four women and told Renars Veigulis: “You are free to go.” Mr Veigulis […]

GARDAI have seized a number of homemade firearms after raiding a house in Kerry. The weapons were recovered along with a quantity of ammunition as part of an investigation by gardai based in Tralee. The firearms will be examined by ballistics gardai to establish if they were capable of being used. A foreign national, who […]

A judge has told two brothers he found it absolutely extraordinary they should have sustained instantaneous serious injury such as warranted them remaining motionless in a car while waiting for an ambulance to arrive. Throwing out both of Keith and Terence Piercy’s €60,000 damages claims, Circuit Court President Mr Justice Raymond Groarke told them they […]

Heavy rainfall swept cars down streets and left them either submerged or stacked. For the second time in 10 days, flood water has surged through the streets of Bodrum. The Turkish city which is the gateway to nearby holiday resorts during the summer is currently a scene of flood damage. Heavy rainfall swept cars down […]

He has called Justin Trudeau “very dishonest and weak.” He also, perhaps jokingly, accused Canada — which came into formal being in 1867 — of burning down the White House during the War of 1812. But on Friday, as President Trump, Mr. Trudeau and Mexico’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto, signed a North American trade pact […]