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After France, is Italy next? Goldman Sachs flags bond risks as Rome's deficit widens
Goldman Sachs says Italy’s higher 2027-28 deficit targets, rising yields and election uncertainty could weaken its debt outlook. ...
UK government blocks Northern Ireland march after standoff fueled sectarian tensions
By DANICA KIRKA LONDON (AP) —
Singing Bus Driver in running for top award
Strachan has amassed 52 pages worth of customer compliments gathered from social media and feedback. ...
'Loneliest dog' finds home after 3 years in kennels
Sadie is enjoying life with a new family after becoming a social media star. ...
Adventurer who lost leg says 'don't send me money'
Luke Tarrant says he is "disgusted" that fraudsters are pretending to be him on social media. ...
'Can't see the Bayeux Tapestry? Here's our Mapestry'
The work of art celebrates the town's history through fabric, thread, appliqué and embroidery. ...
Charity boss hits out at 'mind-blowing' van theft
Cambridge City Foodbank is fundraising for a new van after thieves stole its engine. ...
DUP MP says unionists angry over Michelle O'Neill's role in protests
Carla Lockhart said the DUP has it "within it's gift to remove" O'Neill as Northern Ireland's first minister and it "cannot be business as usual" at Stormont. ...
The sewage spill that cost a water company boss £1m
Thousands of tonnes of raw sewage contaminated a beauty spot killing fish, including rare species. ...
A-grade on the asphalt: World champion racer, 12, drives circles around rivals
Standing on the podium in Spain, non-alcoholic champagne fizzing everywhere, Millar said he felt one step closer to achieving his dream of becoming a professional driver. ...
The Armagh apples connecting a rural community
Macha's Orchard is a social enterprise producing apple juice and a unique powder supplement. ...
‘We need less point scoring’: What party conference season taught us about UK climate action
New homes could be built without solar panels, heat pumps and high-grade insulation, leading to higher household bills if the Conservative party wins the next general election. Kemi Badenoch made scrapping the future homes standard (FHS) one of the central
Healing waters: 10 of the best spa towns in Europe for a restorative autumn break
In 2021, Unesco designated 11 historic spa towns across Europe as one transnational world heritage site, recognising their “exceptional testimony to the European spa phenomenon, which gained its highest expression from around 1700 until the 1930s”. This was
Ukrainian prisoners of war and defectors have been gathered into a Russian battalion to face ...
Russia has announced a battalion consisting of Ukrainian "volunteers." But veterans and former prisoners of war share very different accounts. ...
Broken record: Friendship with Britain and Hindustan
With the advantage of hindsight, one has the opportunity to study the historical cycles in a nation’s life. Thanks to this newspaper’s unique, extensive archive of back issues, one can examine the major political, economic and social trends that have shaped
Tariffs, millions in extra costs, Iran war: Trump’s policies hammer US firms
For Doug Rende, who runs an aluminium product manufacturer in the US
India’s cockroach party leaders freed as election chief protests mount
A New Delhi court ordered on Sunday the release of three leaders of the
‘Let them live in peace’: Protestants and Catholics alike express relief in Drumcree
In a loyalist enclave of Portadown a group of young men cheer as they watch a Premier League football match on their friend’s phone. It is lunchtime on Saturday and a high court challenge against a decision to ban an Orange Order march down the nationalist
Will rent-a-room scheme increase encourage more landlords to participate?
Caroline Gleeson has been renting a room in her three-bedroom home in Whitehall, Co Dublin, for 25 years. The rent-a-room scheme allows her to earn up to €14,000 tax-free while not affecting her pension entitlements. While providing her with an extra income,
Bad news for Dublin’s coolest neighbourhoods – there’s a plan to bring them tourists
The six million or so tourists visiting Dublin every year can make the streets busy. The situation is a challenge for locals, who find prices high, paths congested and hotels growing out of cracks in the pavement. Until now, you could just stay out of town and
The former garda who found a new role in Church of Ireland after retirement and divorce
How women are treated in the Catholic Church drove Rev Mike Buchanan (58) from the tradition into which he was born to the Church of Ireland priesthood. It cost him his marriage, but, unexpectedly, it has also brought him a fiancee. There are interesting
Why doesn’t Ireland grow more veg?
“Nobody wants to work,” Jenny McNally laughs when asked what might turn someone away from a career in vegetable growing. “It’s hard labour; your bones ache. There’s nothing easy about horticultural farming.” Since 1997, she and her husband Patrick have
Ireland may not have the death penalty, but we have no reason for complacency
One of Christa Pike’s swollen and blistered arms and both her feet were shackled as she lay in hospital after two doses of lethal injection in Tennessee that failed to have their intended effect. She is now walking with assistance and eating normally. The
Ireland vs Europe apartment living: ‘In France it’s different’
Barcelona, Spain “You can’t raise kids in apartments.” Donal Quinn recalls someone in Ireland telling him this, unaware that his son, along with most of Barcelona’s children, was growing up in such a dwelling. “I looked at her and said, ‘Actually you can’,”
Goldfinches flock to UK gardens if you plant one flower that's their favourite food
The flower needs little care, can grow well in sun or partial shade and thrives in a variety of soils. With their bright red faces, gold wing flashes and constant chattering, goldfinches make quite a spectacle when they arrive in a loose flock in your garden.
France’s crypto kidnapping epidemic: Criminal gangs turn digital wealth into a weapon
France faces a disturbing surge in kidnappings, hostage-taking, and violent home invasions as organized criminal networks hunt cryptocurrency fortunes, increasingly targeting ordinary families alongside wealthy executives and influencers. France is confronting
‘Stab to the heart’: arrest of German ex-spymaster sparks calls for reform
Claims that August Hanning exploited intelligence for private clients comes after other troubling espionage scandals
Animals and their people: country shows across the UK – in pictures
Photographer Irina Werning, who grew up in rural Argentina surrounded by animals, has spent the summer photographing animals and their people at county and agricultural shows across the UK, from Essex and Kent to Surrey, Gloucestershire and Buckinghamshire, a
France’s other schools problem – the teens violently smashing up their old primaries: ‘They think ...
The phenomenon of pupils wrecking equipment and setting fire to classrooms predates the current crisis. Is it rooted in poverty, social media peer pressure – or just plain boredom?
Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report
Research challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity