Gay rights activists and LGBT groups were targeted with tear gas by police yesterday as they walked in the Istanbul Pride parade.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has admitted that Ireland alone cannot block a new EU trade deal that threatens to devastate the Irish beef industry - and has not ruled out ultimately backing the plan.
US candidates running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination yesterday criticised President Donald Trump's latest meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, saying it lacked substance and elevated a ruthless dictator.
Detectives probing the murder of a heavily pregnant woman who was stabbed to death, leaving her baby critically ill in hospital, have made a second arrest.
The revelation that 30 civil servants in the south of France have been paid for doing nothing for more than 25 years has caused outrage.
For Donald Trump, it was the biggest live show yet: a handshake with North Korea's Kim Jong-un, and then a short stroll together, beyond freedom's frontier and into the hermit kingdom.
Combative protesters have tried to break into the Hong Kong legislature as a crowd of thousands were marching in that direction on the 22nd anniversary of the former British colony's return to China.
