Hiroshima has marked the 74rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city with its mayor renewing calls for eliminating such weapons and demanding Japan's government do more.
The Trump administration has frozen all Venezuelan government assets in a dramatic escalation of tensions with socialist leader Nicolas Maduro, who has stubbornly clung to power in the face of mounting international pressure.
The last six weeks has to be among the best periods for grass growth I have witnessed during my years of farming. Growth of over 100kg/day were recorded in a lot of my paddocks.
The Department of Agriculture is set to clamp down on so-called 'armchair' farmers who lease out their entitlements.
In normal times the land market in North Leinster has always been buoyant with strong sales and much land changing hands in Meath Westmeath and Louth. Prices generally reflect their proximity to the Greater Dublin Area, the good old GDA.
A review of the public auction scene for the first six months of the year makes for some grim reading.
Sales in South Leinster remained steady in the first six months of the year and while the region saw some declines in figures there is substantially little difference in its performance in the land sales' stakes from 2018.
