BRUSSELS — Delphine Boël grew up certain that she should be a princess. Now a court ruling and a DNA test could make it true. Ms. Boël, 50, is a Belgian visual artist who claims that she was conceived during an extramarital affair between King Albert II of Belgium and Ms. Boël’s mother, Baroness Sybille […]
Rickshaw operators will require a licence and Garda vetting under new plans to regulate the growing late night transport service. Independent.ie previously revealed how some rickshaw operators were selling drugs to customers during cross city journeys. Under the Government clampdown motorised rickshaws will be completely banned while other non-electric operators will have to adhere to […]
MARSEILLE, France — Two buildings collapsed into a pile of rubble and beams on Monday in Marseille, and the authorities said they were in “a race against the clock” to find anyone who might be trapped in the ruins. The buildings — one condemned, the other inhabited — gave way sometime after 9 a.m. In […]
LONDON (REUTERS) – British Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt said on Monday (Nov 5) he would push for new action at the United Nations Security Council to try to end hostilities in Yemen and find a political solution to the war there. Yemen, one of the poorest Arab countries, is locked in a nearly four-year-old war […]
KIEV, Ukraine — Three months ago, an attacker splashed a liter of sulfuric acid over her head, burning 30 percent of her body. But Kateryna Handziuk, an anticorruption activist, continued to speak out from her hospital bed about unsolved attacks on dozens of civic activists in Ukraine this year. On Sunday, after 11 surgeries and […]
Metropolitan Police Commander Stuart Cundy said the plan followed a “terrible” few days in the capital – which has seen a total of 118 murders so far this year. It comes after a Home Office minister said a change in the nature of crime was to blame for a spike in gang-related violence, rather than […]
A father who raped his teenage daughter throughout her pregnancy and while her two week old baby was in the same room has been jailed for ten years. Jennifer Berry (43) waived her right to anonymity so that Oliver Berry (61) could be named in any reporting of the case. He was convicted by a […]
MONT-SAINT-GUIBERT, Belgium — The migrants while away their days in Brussels at Maximilian Park, near the busy Gare du Nord, playing soccer on the durable artificial grass, checking their smartphones, dodging the police and trying to find a way to Britain. Roxane Hauzeur, a designer for a fashion house, began volunteering to help them a […]
The body of a woman who got into difficulty while kayaking in Co Kerry has been recovered after an extensive search. The alarm was raised shortly after noon yesterday near the village of Kilgarvan where the woman, who was aged in her mid-30s, had been kayaking on a river. It is understood she was part […]
Students at two primary schools in west Dublin where structural defects have been found in their buildings will not be returning to class this morning as planned. St Luke’s National School and Tyrrelstown Educate Together schools had planned to reopen the ground floors of their schools today. However, last night officials from St Luke’s announced […]