France saw around 1,000 additional deaths last week at the height of its record-smashing heatwave, the country’s public health agency said, as new

Ukraine kept up its heavy drone assault on Russia, setting fire to a large oil refinery in the south and killing at least two people, Russian authorities said on Sunday, as president Vladimir Putin acknowledged his country is going through a “difficult period”.

A former PSNI detective has claimed senior officers refused to investigate if a convicted rapist may be a serial sex offender - saying she feared “we could have been dealing with another John Worboys”.

The Saudi Ministry of Energy confirmed there were no survivors in the Ras Tanura helicopter crash, which happened at approximately 6am local time on Sunday

The Israeli army destroyed an extensive tunnel in southern Lebanon, with Lebanese state media reporting strikes in the area and Hezbollah saying it reserves the right to respond.

The EU proposals have been slammed by human rights organisations, who argue they risk outsourcing human rights protections to other countries.

Amid the title challengers and young hopefuls battling it out at Wimbledon this year is a man who embodies the idea that persistence will eventually pay off. Argentinian Marco Trungelliti earned direct entry into the men’s singles at the All England Club for the first time this year at the age of 36 after becoming the oldest man for more than 50 years to break into the top 100.

Salmon levels in Ireland have reduced from 1.7m in the 1970s to fewer than 150,000. 'The catches won’t be reduced by regulation. They will be reduced by collapse,' says one expert