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A student from Gaza has described how leaving her family to come to Ireland was the “hardest decision of my entire life”. Ghada Ashour, a speaker at Saturday’s National March for Palestine in Dublin, told the Press Association she left Khan Younis last September to study for a master’s degree in Ireland. She said her […]

Taylor Swift’s The Life Of A Showgirl has been named the best-selling album globally in 2025 by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). Her 12th studio album topped the IFPI’s general albums chart, sales chart for physical releases and paid downloads, and vinyl sales chart, having been released in October last year, as […]

Israeli air strikes on eastern Lebanon have killed eight members of the militant Hezbollah group, including local commanders, officials said. The Lebanese health ministry put the death toll at 10, but did not distinguish between militants and civilians. The Hezbollah officials said eight militants were killed in strikes near the village of Rayak in north-east […]

A Belgian collector who put up for online auction a series of Second World War photographs showing the final moments of 200 Greeks executed by a Nazi firing squad, signed a preliminary agreement with Greece on Friday and has withdrawn the photos from sale, Greece’s culture ministry said. Greece is seeking to obtain the photos […]

Barcelona’s towering Sagrada Familia basilica reached its maximum height on Friday, though the magnum opus of Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi remains years away from completion. A crane placed the upper arm of a cross atop the Tower of Jesus Christ, the church’s soaring central piece, which now stands 566 feet above the city, the church […]

An Austrian court has convicted a man of manslaughter caused by gross negligence, after his girlfriend froze to death as the couple attempted to climb the country’s highest peak last year. The 37-year-old defendant was given a five-month suspended sentence and a 9,600-euro (£8,380) fine in a verdict handed down by the Innsbruck state court […]

Quentin Griffiths, who co-founded British ‌fast-fashion retailer ASOS, has died after a fall from a balcony ‌in Thailand, Thai police said on Friday. Police told Reuters that Griffiths, ​58, had fallen from the 17th floor of an apartment block in the seaside resort city of Pattaya on February 9th. The ​police went to the scene […]

UK Athletics has pleaded guilty to the corporate manslaughter of a Paralympian who was hit on the head by a metal pole during training. Abdullah Hayayei, 36, who represented the United Arab Emirates, was fatally injured at Newham Leisure Centre in east London on July 11th, 2017. He was preparing to represent his country in […]

When Thai police were having trouble catching a serial burglar who repeatedly slipped through their fingers, they came up with a creative plan: going undercover in a traditional lion costume to get close to their quarry. Video footage released by the Bangkok police department showed officers hidden beneath a red-and-gold lion costume dancing toward the […]

Sinn Féin, which this week declared it would not attend St Patrick’s Day events in the White House, was not invited by the Trump administration, the US embassy has said. In a statement issued to The Irish Times in response to questions, the US ambassador to Ireland, Edward Walsh, said that “no members of Sinn […]