Sunday 18 October 2026Evening (Europe/Dublin)
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The French government is in crisis talks after what ministers call a colossal failure of the state, with officials and police under pressure over the response to days of violent unrest across France.
Protests have spread to Lisbon and Milan as housing and living costs bite: hundreds at a Lisbon tent camp demand action, while Giorgia Meloni says a march in Italy was exploited by hooligans.
Explained: why are people protesting across Europe? School conditions, housing costs and the cost of living have brought demonstrators onto the streets in several countries.
Revealed: French police used UK-funded 4x4 vehicles to charge at protesters; the French government has launched an investigation into why cars funded by the UK to stop Channel crossings were used in school protests.
In pictures: 'If we burn, you burn' - hundreds arrested as tens of thousands take to the streets across France to demonstrate against rising fuel prices and the cost of living.
Zelenskyy thanks Trump for resumed intelligence sharing after the US reversal, as two people are killed and at least 17 injured with Russia and Ukraine trading strikes on power infrastructure.
Intensifying drone attacks on ships in the Black Sea bring the war ever closer to NATO waters: six attacks in 10 days by suspected Russian drones mark a dramatic escalation.
Ukraine war briefing: Trump's sanctions waiver is a '60-day pause', and Zelenskyy expects Trump to lift more sanctions against Russia. What we know on day 1,698.
Multiple people have been killed as Canadian authorities tackle an active blaze at an Alberta military base, with patients taken to hospitals in Edmonton and a local doctor saying Wainwright was overwhelmed.
A six-year-old is among two dead after a Kansas woman drove through a youth soccer game; Wichita police say the 34-year-old truck driver was taken into custody.
Pope Leo is to gradually resume papal activities since the removal of a cancer, thanking people for their prayers in his first public appearance since the operation on his lung.
The US ambassador to Israel has called a West Bank settler attack on an American journalist unacceptable, Mike Huckabee demanding arrests as Heidi Levine (63) recovers in hospital in Israel.
Israeli settlers have attacked European diplomats in the West Bank - a French mayor and an archbishop among them - during a violent attempt to stop Palestinians harvesting olives.
The World Bank says 'small AI' could transform developing countries, its chief knowledge officer saying the tech could speed up economic development from centuries to decades.
Forget the seven-year itch: opposite-sex marriages are more likely to end after two decades, with ONS data showing 26% of 2025 heterosexual divorces followed 20 years or more of marriage.
Scholars have concluded beyond doubt that Shakespeare was the main author of a play anonymously published in 1596, computer analysis showing it was a collaboration with Christopher Marlowe.
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The Taoiseach has rejected Michael O'Leary's view that he would 'buckle' on public pay, insisting productivity would have to be part of any new agreement.
A man has died after a fatal assault in Dublin; gardai discovered the man with serious injuries on the footpath at Blackhorse Place in the north of the city.
The remains of the four Waterford family members killed in the house fire have reposed at the church, with Johnville football club, where 12-year-old Callum English played, providing a guard of honour.
John Swinney versus Andy Burnham: the intriguing new rivalry in British politics, as the SNP holds its shindig in Aberdeen while the UK prime minister attempts a spoiler visit to Motherwell.
A Dublin woman in Ottawa: 'Canadians take time to adapt to our humour' - Wild Geese: Jackie Gilna, Ottawa.
A US snapshot of Donald Trump's hunger for adulation that has dragged America low: in Doug Mills' photo, Trump is in a cozy huddle with his most essential type of staff member.
Met Eireann is scrambling to save the amateur weather watchers' network: about 150 private weather stations nationwide feed into the Wow platform, which the UK will soon close.
Trump has endorsed Netanyahu in the Israeli election, praising him as a great warrior prime minister and peace partner.
The public pay deal must give most to those who are really squeezed: younger workers contending with high rents and housing costs.
Dr Muiris Houston: why it's time the clocks stopped going back and forward - the twice-yearly change is a shock to the system and should probably be ditched, though the healthiest alternative also has drawbacks.
'People are afraid it will happen again': hundreds protest the lack of flood defences in Midleton, where Storm Babet caused up to 200m euro in damage to businesses and homes in 2023.
Rite & Reason: the 'Irish pope' who was equally disliked by Irish patriots and Protestants - when Clonliffe was sold, Cardinal Cullen's remains had to be moved quickly and discreetly.
The landmark Irish Catholic assembly has backed further discussion on women in ministry, with Archbishop Eamon Martin telling delegates in Co Meath that many Irish parishes will struggle to survive.
Dublin residents are protesting against the rezoning of land owned by Johnny Ronan; councillors previously rejected changing the zoning of sites at St Edmundsbury, Finnstown Castle and Coldcut Road.
Gulliver's Travels at 300: did Jonathan Swift predict AI? The satirical masterpiece has been irresistible to illustrators, abridgers and adaptors since its sensational arrival.
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The Drumcree legal challenge is returning to the High Court, launched after the parade was banned from the nationalist Garvaghy Road.
SDLP MLA Patsy McGlone has called for an urgent meeting with BBC NI leadership after the corporation announced plans to cut its Irish language staff by more than half.
The partition of Ireland 'was a disaster', the Taoiseach has said in a speech at the Fianna Fail Wolfe Tone commemoration in Co Kildare.
Regeneration of the Crumlin Road Gaol's historic cottages is to be 'explored' - the row of 16 grade B listed properties was built in 1927.
A man (33) has been charged over a weekend east Belfast arson attack, with police saying he was charged with arson endangering life with intent.
Julian Simmons: 'I want to squeeze as much out of life as possible' - Leona O'Neill chats to the broadcasting legend about how childhood tragedy shaped his show-must-go-on mindset.
Hundreds turned out for the Cancer Focus NI Pink Run in Derry, a sold-out 5k fun run marking Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Co Down teen Naomi Gribben from Mayobridge heads to Malta as Ireland's Junior Eurovision hopeful for the grand final on Saturday, October 24.
Three officers were injured in a Co Down high-speed chase involving a lorry; police said a 36-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of a number of motoring offences.
A man and woman are in court on charges related to the fatal Waterford arson attack; the funeral for the four victims is due to take place on Monday.
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A paedophile loyalist bandsman is under UVF death threat after admitting his crimes; the pervert, kneecapped by the gang as a teenager, has been told to stay out of east Antrim.
Jailed cocaine kingpin 'Trigger' has been expelled from the paramilitary gang, a move against the former commander jailed last week for three years.
Comment: Jeffrey Donaldson's incessant trips to the developing world - constant foreign missions, luxury travel and paedophilia, and how his hidden overseas career raises dark questions.
The homes of defence industry figures have been vandalised by pro-Palestine activists.
Drumcree negotiators would have achieved 'nothing': if the approach to the failed talks had been followed by those who negotiated the Good Friday Agreement, nothing would have been achieved.
Jeffrey Donaldson 'cried himself to sleep' after sentencing; the paedophile ex-politician is set for transfer to Magilligan Prison once the dust on his sentence settles.
Jeffrey Donaldson is to be questioned behind bars by Met Police over an allegation he sexually assaulted a woman in his House of Commons office in 2016.
Paedophile Jeffrey Donaldson will be under threat every day of his sentence in Maghaberry jail, a former governor of the Maze prison has warned.
Exclusive: Jeffrey Donaldson's MoD role in Cameroon's Anglophone crisis, with luxury trips, fees and soft power influence revealed in a Belfast Telegraph investigation.
Jeffrey Donaldson's victims speak out for the first time: the two women reveal how they overheard strangers discussing their abuse in hairdressers and coffee shops.
Sisters are great... they give you their honest opinion: the siblings bringing tinting from the salon to the bathroom.
The DUP is facing huge pressure to collapse Stormont as the Drumcree row deepens, with a court challenge over the Garvaghy Road parade ban to hear a police assessment that the Provos are still operational.
'The worst sinners still need prayer': a shamed ex-Tory MP turned Anglican priest tells how he sent a 'message of hope' letter to paedophile Jeffrey Donaldson.
How MLAs traded insults during a three-hour debate before the no-confidence votes, none of which received cross-community support.
Live coverage of the Drumcree dispute as a DUP delegation meets the PSNI chief and the party demands full transparency.
The DUP could be the biggest losers from Drumcree as a new political climate emerges, with the parading row heading back to court.
Chris Bryant rejects claims he bowed to mob rule over the Drumcree parade decision.
The 10 top-grossing films in Northern Ireland this year, as the NI cinema industry heads for its most successful year since before the pandemic.
An arrest in west Belfast over stolen goods and counterfeit currency: police seized suspected fake notes and Class C drugs, and advise what to do if you receive one.
A man (41) has been held after one of Northern Ireland's largest drug seizures: a PSNI raid on a van in Lisburn uncovered 2.4m pounds of the drug.
London shouldn't give Stormont any more money: Stormont's financial chaos, moral hazard and failing services exposed as London cash keeps flowing - but John O'Dowd says enough is enough.
Opinion: the only person in the world to publicly support Jeffrey Donaldson; he and Jonathan Aitken have plenty in common after decades in Westminster's corridors of power.
NI airport ground staff used an internal system for underhand practice, with Swissport saying it took all appropriate action during its investigation.
A Belfast family searches for answers after their mother, who had dementia, was allegedly assaulted inside a care home; a doctor said it significantly contributed to her declining health before her death.
Police are hunting a knife-wielding robber after the Ormeau Road cash theft from a licensed premises in south Belfast, detailing how witnesses can share information.
With dinner party panic like this, no wonder we're eating alone: a survey shows the share of people who have family or friends round at least once a month has fallen over 70% since 1975.
Why a Co Down gym boss once dubbed Ireland's fittest man is leading a challenge: volunteers hope to cover one million metres on stationary cardio machines in 10 hours to raise money for dementia research.
NI gigs of the week: Shed Seven are back in Northern Ireland this weekend after an eight-year absence, with Duran Duran also on the bill.
Gone but not forgotten: 30 of Northern Ireland's lost restaurants - from greasy spoons to gourmet cuisine, Ivan Little goes on a culinary trip down memory lane.
Loyalist community worker Gareth Beacom, a former employee of scandal-hit charity Charter NI which worked closely with the UDA, is due in court accused of a loyalist feud offence.