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  • Martin wades into abortion debate

    As the Dáil committee hearings continue on the abortion bill, Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has waded into the debate saying it is important that Christian believers "be, and seen to be, on the side of life, especially when life is most vulnerable".

  • Payment cuts see families pay rent shortfall

    Limits on rent supplement payments set by the Government are forcing thousands of families to make undeclared top-up payments to landlords to secure places to live.

  • WORLD
  • Anger as North Korea launches another missile

    North Korea fired a short-range missile from its east coast, a day after launching three more of these missiles, a South Korean news agency said.

  • How Star Trek predicted the future

    WHEN Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry first dreamed up the concept of a television show based in the unexplored universe of Outer Space in 1964, the world was a very different place.

  • BUSINESS
  • Warnings over future of eurozone

    The eurozone is heading towards a break up unless there are moves towards much closer political and fiscal union, according to chief economist with State Street Global Advisers, Chris Probyn.

  • Bruton defends corporate tax rate

    Ireland will be able to maintain its current corporation tax code in the face of international pressure to prevent multinational corporations avoid paying their fare share of tax, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton said yesterday.

  • SPORT
  • Mayo’s statement of intent

    Galway 0-11 Mayo 4-16 Five minutes to go in Salthill yesterday and James Horan was still cajoling his men to sew it into Galway.

  • Wilkinson inspires Toulon to glory

    ASM Clermont Auvergne 15 Toulon 16 Not for the first time this season, a matchday performance and the result have made a mockery of the statistics.

  • LIFESTYLE
  • What Lenny Abrahamson did next

    LENNY Abrahamson has directed three feature films: Adam & Paul, Garage and What Richard Did.

  • Why do women love to dress up?

    Trying on clothes, said Ewart, produced "sensations which bring deep peace and perfect contentment" to the female mind.






Speculation over China’s ‘missing’ premier elect

Where is China’s president-in-waiting, Xi Jinping?

Chinese micro-bloggers and overseas websites have speculated as to why the vice president has gone unseen for more than a week. Xi has cancelled meetings with visiting foreign dignitaries, including US secretary of state Hillary Clinton and Singapore premier Lee Hsien Loong. Yesterday, it was the Danish prime minister’s turn.

Most online speculation about Xi, 59, has centred on a back problem, possibly incurred when he took a dip last week in the swimming pool inside the Zhongnanhai compound.

More dramatically, US website Boxun.com cited an unidentified source as saying Xi was injured in a staged traffic accident that was part of a revenge plot by ousted local Communist Party boss Bo Xilai’s supporters in the security forces.

The tension and the uncertainty are heightened by the timing ahead of a generational shift to a new leadership that is to be headed by Xi.

Xi is expected to become the Communist leader at a party congress held once every five years.

Yet the dates for the meeting, expected in the second half of October, have yet to be announced, prompting talk that at least some of the seats on the nine-member Standing Committee remain up for grabs. Recent economic challenges have also added to the sense of insecurity. Home

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