Director Grant Lee takes Silver Bear for movie featuring Newry actor Valene Kane, with screenplay by Mark O’Halloran

German chancellor told party delegates ‘what counts is strength – military as well as economic’

Thomas Plamberger was ‘galaxies away’ from his partner Kerstin Gurtner in terms of climbing condition, says judge

While Friedrich Merz tries to get his house in order at home, the chancellor is struggling with key European relationships

Marco Rubio praises Trump-friendly leaders of Hungary and Slovakia, while Warsaw wrestles with internal tensions over US ties

The world came to the Munich Security Conference over the weekend for an ideological showdown

‘Woke, decadent Europe not facing civilisational erasure,’ says European Union foreign policy chief

Shuttling between realpolitik slap and diplomatic tickle, US secretary of state urges end to ‘western malaise’

‘The UN has served us extremely well ... but reform is needed’ Minister for Foreign Affairs says at Munich Defence Conference

How Schleswig-Holstein is challenging big tech dominance and redefining digital sovereignty

Postwar order ‘currently being destroyed’, says Merz as Macron says Europe will show ‘strength and tenacity’ to support Ukraine

Despite global disquiet and disorder, there is quiet confidence among some European representatives

A year on from JD Vance’s bombshell speech in Munich, European leaders are searching for a post-American future

Moves to distance party from extremist figures reveal tensions between electoral ambition and ideological hardliners

Marius Borg Høiby (29) pleads not guilty to four counts of rape in trial that has embarrassed the royal family