Five days after arriving in Colombia, Fiona Barry and Keith Ward met a rescue pup called Gracie, who gave them paws for thought, says Paula Burns.

Viewers from around the world tuned into the Irish Examiner's first-ever live broadcast of an inter-county match today.

Next Friday, four constituencies vote on who might replace Dáil deputies elected to Europe.

The TomTom Traffic Index studied traffic across 403 cities last year.

The prioritisation of the car and poor land use have polluted and ghettoised our cities, but a sustainable approach can change all that, says Abhas K Jha

Doris Salcedo rails against the violence of her native Colombia in her major exhibition at IMMA, writes Ellie O’Byrne

Investment in public transport is vital if Cork is to avoid crippling traffic congestion like that in Dublin, the Cork Business Association (CBA) has warned.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has called for an emergency meeting of the governing body's council to discuss a €20.5billion plan to overhaul the Club World Cup and set up a new national league.

A sudden power outage brought the world's busiest airport to a standstill on Sunday, grounding more than 1,000 flights in Atlanta just days before the start of the Christmas travel rush.

A Heathrow security worker who was arrested in an airport toilet after £700,000 worth of cocaine was seized has been charged with conspiring to import drugs.

Bob Geldof has delivered searing criticism of a number of world leaders, saying he is "sick of them".

Pope Francis has arrived in Colombia for a five-day visit in which he hopes to give an extra boost to the country's peace process and encourage reconciliation after a decades-long guerrilla conflict.

US vice president Mike Pence is meeting people who have fled from Venezuela to Colombia as he seeks to draw attention to a deepening political crisis under Nicolas Maduro.

A Colombian police officer has been killed and up to 31 people injured after a home-made bomb exploded near Bogota's bullring today.

Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos has signed a new peace agreement with the country's largest rebel movement, aiming to end half a century of hostilities.

Colombia's president has said he will donate more than €887,000 of his Nobel Peace Prize money to the victims of Colombia's 50-year conflict.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has indicated his desire to expand the World Cup finals format from 32 to 48 teams.

An eminent US surgeon suffering from early-onset dementia who fell victim to a phishing scam which culminated in him bringing €100,000 of cocaine into Dublin Airport will be sentenced next week.

While I have only been loosely following financial markets over the last three weeks — after all, in the short-term it is all just noise — my three weeks in Colombia have provided me with new perspectives and insights that I look forward to sharing in the coming weeks.

ITALY: Fried cow’s brains might not be to everyone’s taste, but more people may sample the Florentine specialty now that Italy’s art capital has ordered food outlets in the city centre to sell mostly local produce.

Vaughn Taylor doesn’t know how he lost his game. Even more mystifying was the way it returned.

Eamon Gilmore believes Europe can offer tangible support to Colombia as it embarks on its peace process, writes Ann Cahill Europe Correspondent

Authorities in Colombia have seized one metric ton of cocaine disguised as printer ink and bound for Mexico.

Wales: The oldest McDonald’s employee in Europe is celebrating his 90th birthday with a party at the restaurant where he works, saying he has no plans to retire just yet.

Facebook’s results have beaten profit and revenue forecasts for the seventh quarter in a row as the firm continues to win more mobile advertising revenue as users shift to using the site on smartphones.

Aged just 10 months, morbidly obese Juanita Valentina Hernandez weighs the same as an average five-year-old. Juanita, from Libano Tolima, Colombia, began rapidly gaining weight just weeks after her birth and, since then, her worried mother Sandra Franco has not been able to stop it.

The explosion at the pyrotechnics factory in Colombia blew the cameraman off his feet.

There’s nothing like a good fireworks display, is there? But this explosion at a pyrotechnics factory in Colombia puts all other displays to shame.

Future megacities may be filled with bicycles instead of cars. Copenhagen is leading the way in lowering CO2 emissions and increasing the mobility of citizens, writes Elisabeth Braw.

In a World Cup that has already left so many lasting memories, the real legacy could be a shift in the balance of power from Europe to the Americas.

Impac winner Juan Gabriel Vasquez on how the slaying of soccer star Andres Escobar marked a tipping point, writes Alan O’Riordan

COLOMBIA: A self-declared chocolate addict has been sentenced to five months in one of Colombia’s harshest prisons for swiping $8 (€5.90) worth of bars.

Jineth Bedoya Lima was viciously attacked and raped 14 years ago. She will not rest until Colombia’s women have justice, says Caroline O’Doherty

McBusted are to support One Direction on their upcoming stadium tour.

Santiago Mendoza is just eight months old but weighs as much as the average six-year-old.

Kian Egan thinks One Direction could split up because they don't appear to have a close bond anymore.

Colombian police say they have caught a 78-year-old Spaniard trying to smuggle cocaine out of the country in his belly.

Police in Colombia have arrested a Toronto woman who pretended to be pregnant to try to smuggle cocaine.

Fatherhood. These guys are doing it right.

The Colombian government and the country’s biggest rebel group have reached a deal on land reform – one of their main bones of contention – after months of slow-moving peace talks in Cuba’s capital.

We came across this clip on YouTube of a mugger in the Colombian capital, Bogota.

Last Tuesday was a mixed bag for grapplers.

Colombian police and Honduras' foreign relations ministry are investigating reports that at least two computers were stolen during a party at the Honduran embassy in Bogota that involved women thought to be working as prostitutes.

A Columbian factory is to begin designing bulletproof clothes for children for the US market.