Tsipras says no solution to refugee crisis without Turkey

The Greek Prime Minister says it won't be possible to find a European solution to the migration crisis without Turkey.

The country hasn't been invited to an emergency EU summit tonight in Brussels.

"The intelligence we received was wrong" - Tony Blair apologises for 'mistakes' in planning of Iraq war

Tony Blair has apologised for "mistakes" in the planning of the Iraq war, saying "the intelligence we received" was wrong.

The former British prime minister also admitted there was "elements of truth" in the view that the 2003 invasion was the "principal cause" of Islamic State's rise.

Garda Tony Golden raised concerns over police resources in 2013

Garda Tony Golden raised a number of concerns about the lack of police resources in the Dundalk district two years before his murder earlier this month.

In the handwritten document given to a community group on the Cooley Peninsula in 2013, Garda Golden also voiced the fears of his colleagues that the overtime that had been made available for the murder investigation into Garda Adrian Donohoe in 2013 would not be continued into 2014.

INMO says there is a shortage of nurses in Ireland, despite higher than OECD average figures

The INMO says there is a shortage of nurses here, despite figures which show that Ireland has more nurses for our population size than other OECD countries.

The numbers were gathered from the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland's data on professionally active nurses, along with details from the Central Statistics' Office Quarterly National Household Survey.

17 killed and dozens injured in fire at Indonesian karaoke bar

17 people have died and more than 70 others have been injured following a fire at a packed karaoke bar in Indonesia.

More than 70 others were taken to hospital when the flames ripped through the crowded club in Manado on Sulawesi Island.