Ireland grants Bigley passport
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Ireland grants a passport to Briton Ken Bigley, held hostage in Iraq, after his family appealed for help from the neutral country.
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Efforts to help save the life of Kenneth Bigley held captive in Iraq, intensified when Irish politicians made an appeal to Bigley&#39;s captors.
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Iran today returned the passport of American journalist Parnaz Azima, who has been detained in Tehran since arriving to visit her ailing mother on Jan. 25, according to her family and employer, Radio Farda.
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Ireland has granted British hostage Ken  Bigley a passport following calls from his family who hope that  stressing his Irish connections will persuade his kidnappers in  Iraq to release him.
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Irish holidaymakers travelling to the US will be fingerprinted and photographed starting tomorrow.
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Facing a backlog of millions of passport applications, the US government yesterday agreed to ease partially -- until Sept. 30 -- strict new requirements for citizens flying back into the country from Canada, Mexico, and Caribbean nations from which travel hasn't normally required a passport.
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THE ritual doesn't change: celebration suffused with solemnity, as the Irish State confers official approval upon its First Citizen, properly done in accordance with the Constitution.
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LILLE, France  - The creation of a biological passport for all professional riders is taking shape, the International Cycling Union (UCI) said on Wednesday.
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The Irish government is working to find out who is holding Dublin-born aid director Margaret Hassan in Iraq and establish contact with them.
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Ireland has granted British hostage Ken Bigley a passport following calls from his family who hope that stressing his Irish connections will persuade his kidnappers in Iraq to release him.
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Ireland elected its first black mayor Thursday, the latest sign of how rapid immigration is changing this once all-white nation.
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BRUSSELS New EU-wide legislation introducing a pet passport will be fully applicable from Friday, allowing pets and their owners to travel legally within the European Union, the European Commission said Wednesday.
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U.S.-Iranian reporter Parnaz Azima has been given her passport back and is free to depart, after months of being prevented from leaving Tehran, her employer and Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi said on Tuesday.
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BALBRIGGAN, Ireland -- Happy little learners filed out of school at midday, smiling in their furry jackets and clutching a parent's hand. It could have been anywhere in Ireland, except that almost every child had immigrant parents -- the vast majority of them black -- from places as distant as...
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Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has intervened in the Ken Bigley hostage crisis with a direct appeal to his kidnappers to release him unharmed.
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The Irish government has given Kenneth Bigley - kidnapped in Iraq - an Irish passport in a bid to stress his non-British roots. It was issued following appeals from his family and his dual citizenship means
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An Ulster charity for children with cancer has become the first in the United Kingdom to receive a grant from the Caron Keating Foundation.