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Syria has accused Lebanese areas of helping al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood along the Syrian border in a letter to the United Nations.

Facebook has launched on the New York stock exchange in what is the biggest ever company flotation.

A British citizen has been arrested by Thai police after the bodies of six babies thought to have been used for black magic were found in travel bags in a Bangkok hotel room.

ROME (Reuters) - A proposal to levy a tax on cats and dogs that stunned Italy on Friday turned out to be all bark and no bite after a wave of popular anger saw it withdrawn on the same day it was made public.

There has been a 24% increase in the level of credit and debit card fraud in the last year.

Three men have been charged with conspiracy to murder, conspiracy to cause an explosion, preparation of terrorist acts and collecting information of use to terrorism in Co Armagh.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The mysterious cloak and dagger world of international espionage and its real-life heros and villains are exposed in a new exhibition, the first to be sanctioned by U.S. intelligence agencies.

A man has been arrested following the seizure of 3kg of heroin at Dublin Airport.

The National Assets Management Agency is believed to have lent €10m for the completion of an unfinished apartment block in south Dublin that is currently in receivership.

Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Manama in Bahrain in protest against the possible unification of Gulf Arab countries.

The partner of a man who was murdered by loyalist gunmen is to take legal action against the PSNI after it emerged that police had retained part of the victim's skull without informing his family.

A memorial to two children killed by an IRA bomb in Warrington in 1993 has been stolen.

German police have detained 400 anti-capitalist protesters in Frankfurt for defying a ban on demonstrations against austerity policies.

Two people have been killed in a road crash in Co Mayo.

Correspondence received from the Smithwick Tribunal on 18 May 2012.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling ANC threatened to take legal action against a Johannesburg gallery for displaying art which lampoons President Jacob Zuma and accuses the party of corruption.

Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to visit Ireland Dublin next month, as part of her first trip abroad in 24 years.

A 36-year-old man has been found guilty at the Central Criminal Court of killing his friend and injuring another man.

KIEV (Reuters) - A psychic pig is set to take over where Paul the Octopus left off at the 2010 World Cup by predicting the results of matches at the European championships in Ukraine and Poland.

The European Commission and the European Central Bank are working on scenarios in case Greece has to leave the eurozone.