The heart-warming moment that a whole family of trumpeting elephants at Dublin Zoo help an expectant mother to give birth to her female calf has been captured on RTÉ’s hugely popular The Zoo series.

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One of the IMF’s former European chiefs has claimed Germany should leave the eurozone after breaking the political taboo of suggesting a member state could exit the common currency.

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Gay Byrne begins a new series of The Meaning Of Life on Tuesday at 10.15pm on RTÉ One with an interview with Mary McAleese.

Electric Picnic is set to feature the Amnesty Stage for the first time, as well as the return of the Puball Gaeilge Irish language stage, it was announced today.

Thirteen people - mostly German and Austrian tourists - have been injured in an explosion today at an archaeological site in northern Pakistan.