At least 29 people have been killed after a tour bus carrying German tourists crashed on the Portuguese island of Madeira.
The vehicle was carrying 55 people when it veered off a steep narrow road and rolled down a steep hillside near the Quinta Splendida Hotel in Canico.
Local mayor Filipe Sousa said 18 women and 11 men were among the dead.
Some 27 people, including the Portuguese driver and a local tour guide, were injured and taken to hospital.
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Children living in emergency accommodation have spoken of their feelings of shame and embarrassment in a new survey.
A new report by the Ombudsman for Children heard from 80 children living in family hubs in Dublin, Cork and Limerick.
Children aged from 5 to 17-years-old were asked what they liked, found challenging and what they would change about the hubs.
They praised staff and efforts to provide facilities for them – but raised concern about space, privacy, noise and not being able to have visitors.
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North Korea has test-fired a new type of tactical guided weapon.
It is the secretive state’s first launch since a summit between leader Kim Jong Un and Us President Donald Trump was cut short without agreement.
The country’s state media did not say whether the weapon was a missile – but claimed it had a "peculiar mode of guiding flight" and "a powerful warhead."
Analysts have suggested the launch may be an attempt to make a statement to the Trump administration over the failed talks.
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A redacted version of the Mueller report on Russian meddling in the 2016 US Presidential election is expected to be released today.
The US Attorney General William Barr received the 400 page report last month – and announced that it had found no conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russian officials in the run-up to the election.
He also said the report did not conclude the President Trump was guilty of obstruction of justice – although it did not exonerate him either.
Opposition politicians have called for the report to be released in full; however; Mr Barr has said it will be redacted for a number of reasons.
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Facebook has admitted that it may have “unintentionally uploaded” email contact details for 1.5 million new users without their consent.
The company said it uploaded the contact to Facebook from May 2016 – despite the fact that it had stopped offering email password verification for new users.
The company said the contacts were not shared with anyone and are currently being deleted.
It said the underlying glitch has been fixed and promised to notify all affected users.
