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Spanish police said Monday that at least 39 people died in the high-speed train collision Sunday in southern Spain and rescue efforts were continuing. The collision occurred when the tail end of a high-speed Iryo train travelling between Malaga and Madrid with some 300 passengers went off the rails near the municipality of Adamuz in Cordoba province at 7:45pm local time (6.45pm GMT).

High-speed train derailed, jumped onto the track in the opposite direction and crashed into an oncoming train on Sunday in southern Spain Spain's transport minister Oscar Puente updated the death toll but said more victims could be confirmed The crash happened in an area that is hard to reach- locals were taking blankets and water to the scene to help the victims

Total number of recipients lower than in 2015, figures show More than 4,000 people who claimed illness benefit over a decade ago are still getting the payment.

Moscow kept up its hammering of Ukraine's energy grid in attacks that killed at least two people overnight to Sunday, according to Ukrainian officials. At least six people were wounded in the Dnipropetrovsk region, the emergency service said. Russia also targeted energy infrastructure in Odesa region, it said. A fire broke out and was promptly extinguished. Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Telegram that repairing the country's energy system remained challenging but we are doing everything we can to restore everything as quickly as possible.

University students have proposed banning corrupt officials from politics and investigating their wealth. Thousands of people have rallied in the Serbian city of Novi Sad, as university students who have led more than a year of mass demonstrations pledged to continue fighting against endemic corruption during the tenure of right-wing nationalist President Aleksandar Vucic. Protesters, chanting thieves, accused the government of rampant corruption.

Apart from finance, the party contributed to personnel, canvassing, ­leafleting and more Sinn Féin spent almost four times that of the other opposition parties to get Catherine Connolly elected President, new figures reveal.

"Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland."

Portugal has begun voting in the first round of a presidential election in which a far-right candidate could, for the first time, make it to a run-off, possibly securing another win for Europe's burgeoning far-right parties. Polling stations opened at 8am local time (08:00 GMT) on Sunday across the country, and exit poll results will be announced 12 hours later. Almost 11 million people are eligible to vote in the election, which has 11 candidates.

Gardaí investigating the double murder of four-year-old Tadgh Farrell and his great-aunt in a petrol-bomb attack in Co Offaly have come up against a "wall of silence" from people they believe have information about the killings.

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'It is just that things went against me on the day' says TD Michael Cahill, who was driving at 190kmh

Billionaires Luke Comer and Maurice Regan have said they are backing Michael Flatley in his dispute with a Northern Irish company that has taken legal action against the dance impresario in a battle for control of the Lord of the Dance shows.

European Commission opens call for evidence on Open Digital EcosystemsSignal: The EU is preparing a structural shift toward open, interoperable digital infrastructure. This marks a move from regulating dominant platforms to actively shaping alternatives and reducing strategic dependency. DMA and DSA enter an enforcement-heavy phase in 2026Signal: Europe's digital laws have moved from principle to execution. Compliance, fines, litigation, and operational constraints are now the central risk factors for large technology companies in the EU.

In a striking collective rebuke to President Trump, the leaders of Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom issued a joint statement Sunday condemning recent U.S. tariff threats tied to military actions they have taken in Greenland. In the statement, leaders of the eight countries underscored their commitment to shared NATO goals, saying that they stood in "full solidarity" with Denmark and Greenland.

Ballygunner cemented their place among the upper echelons of club hurling with their second All-Ireland crown despite not hitting top gear in a 1-20 to 1-14 victory over Galway kingpins Loughrea in Croke Park this afternoon. Loughrea got plenty right in the first half with Darren Shaughnessy's exquisite 26th-minute goal leaving them just one behind at half time having kept a lot of Ballygunner's big guns quiet, 0-12 to 1-8.

Authorities have deployed mobile intensive care units to the crash site near Adamuz, where 25 people are injured. At least 10 people have been killed after two high-speed trains collided in southern Spain, authorities say. Spain's ADIF rail body said in a post on X that a train travelling on Sunday from coastal Malaga to the capital, Madrid, derailed near Adamuz, crossing onto the other track.

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Friday morning found Diego Velazquez striking the familiar pose he has held for the past 370 years, staring out, brush in one hand, palette in the other, from the huge canvas of Las Meninas. The 14 people who stood before the painting to meet the Spanish artist's haughty gaze not to mention the heavy eyes of the dozy mastiff in the picture's foreground were among the first visitors of the day to Madrid's Prado Museum.

I was five years old when I had my first encounter with a black bear. In the spring of 1990, my father, a wildlife biologist, brought home an orphaned three-month-old cub in a cardboard box. The cub's mother, having burrowed beneath the roots of an old tree, had been killed in the den by a logging excavator, but the cub, weighing barely more than a bag of apples, survived. Forestry workers caught the young bear and dropped it off at the Fish and Wildlife office in Peace River, Alberta, where my dad worked, and he called my mom with the news.