Brazil sends in military to tackle Amazon fires
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has insisted he is taking a tough approach to tackling the Amazon wildfires, as protesters demand action.
Mr Bolsonaro, who is less than a year into his presidential term, said: "We are a government of zero tolerance for crime, and in the environmental field it will not be different."
But as he spoke, thousands of Brazilians gathered in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and the capital Brasilia - calling for stronger action to stop the fires.
There have also been demonstrations in other South American countries, as well as Europe, the US and India.
Trump says Johnson is the ‘right man’ to deliver Brexit
Donald Trump made the comments ahead of a meeting with the British Prime Minister at the G7 summit in France.
Donald Trump says the US and UK will discuss doing a "very big trade deal."
Negotiations are expected to be turbulent as the first full day of discussions goes ahead.
Boris Johnson is due to meet the European Council president this afternoon where the Prime Minister is expected to tell EU boss Donald Tusk that Britain will only pay a quarter of its so-called Brexit divorce bill if the country leaves without a deal on 31 October.
Minister slams proposal to reopen broadband process
Minister of State Seán Canney has criticised a proposal to recommend re-opening the procurement process for the National Broadband Plan.
The proposal passed during a vote earlier this week at the Oireachtas Communications Committee.
Minister Canney says the approach is ill-advised and ill-timed.
He says: "The consequence of collapsing the process would delay the implementation of high-speed fibre broadband to rural Ireland for another three to four years and costs would rise.
44% of doctor’s surgeries turning away new patients
A survey of 336 GP practices by the Sunday Independent found 148 are operating at full capacity.
The survey found rural areas in the south west and Dublin commuter belt counties to be worst affected.
The problem was particularly evident in County Laois where no surgeries were found to have space for new patients.
80 percent of those in Carlow and Longford were also found to be at full capacity.
US space agency NASA is investigating what may be the first crime committed in outer space, The New York Times reported Saturday.
Astronaut Anne McClain is accused of identity theft and improperly accessing her estranged wife's private financial records while on a sixth-month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS), the Times said.
The astronaut's spouse Summer Worden filed a complaint earlier this year with the Federal Trade Commission after learning McClain had accessed her bank account without permission, while Worden's family filed another with NASA's Office of Inspector General, according to the newspaper.
McClain's lawyer said the astronaut had done nothing wrong and accessed the bank records while aboard the ISS in order to monitor the couple's combined finances - something she had done over the course of their relationship, the Times reported.
