Russia's Sports Minister Pavel Kolobkov claims they did everything to try and resolve the doping scandal.
The World Anti-Doping Agency's given the country a four year ban from all major international sporting events after finding it tampered with athletes' data.
The Finance Minister claims this week's UK election is the most important foreign election for Ireland in his lifetime.
British voters will go to the polls on Thursday to vote for a new government.
In the UK, Boris Johnson is on a blitz of Labour heartlands at the start of general election week.
Labour is promising to start nationalising utilities within 100 days if it's forming a government on Friday.
Mattresses are now among the items, along with toiletries and bathrobes, that 'go missing' from hotels.
A survey of luxury hotels, reported in the Times of London, found that the theft of mattresses is a growing problem.
In the UK, members of the public are being offered free counter-terrorism training.
It's been devised by officers and security experts, and was previously available only to people who worked in crowded areas.
The world's largest private collection of whisky is expected to fetch up to €9.5-million at auction.
It's made up of almost 4,000 bottles, including one dating back to 1926.
In the UK,
Researchers are claiming voters are more likely to identify as either leave or remain supporters - than with a political party.
More than half strongly identify with one side of the Brexit debate - while a fifth align themselves with party allegiance.
In the UK,
A man who carried out a string of sex attacks and kidnappings across a two-week period has been jailed for at least 30 years.
Joseph McCann has been handed 33 life sentences after being found guilty of 37 charges on Friday.
In the UK,
Tesco's share price has soared after the retailer revealed it's been approached about a potential sale of its Asian business.
It has 2-thousand stores in Thailand and Malaysia, but says it's made 'no decisions'.
Housing building has slowed, and so too has UK economic growth.
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