The escalating trade war between the US and China is nudging the world economy toward its first recession in a decade with investors demanding politicians and central bankers act fast to change course.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been jailed for 50 weeks at a UK court for a bail breach offence.

The two authors featured in Netflix's eight part documentary 'The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann' have said they believe 'her abduction was planned'.

Black Amber Templeogue were crowned Hula Hoops National Cup champions with a 68-62 point win over UCD Marian at the National Basketball Arena this evening.

UCC Demons 77 Templeogue 98: They hadn’t even started sweeping the floor at the Mardyke Arena on Saturday night when the barbs kicked off.

A decade on from crossing paths with NBA superstar Steph Curry, Templeogue’s Lawrence ‘Puff’ Summers takes the latest step in his own incredible journey this weekend. After 10 eventful years in Ireland, there’s still one trophy he’s desperate to claim.

The great and the good of Davos agree they have a problem with populism. Finding a solution is the hard part.

A grandmother who mounted a one-woman protest against Irish Water meter installers yesterday — and won — has dismissed suggestions that she’s a hero.

A judge dismissed a white Ohio woman’s lawsuit accusing an Illinois sperm bank of mistakenly providing sperm from a black donor, resulting in a mixed race child the mother said she was not culturally prepared to raise.

Homelessness is such a big problem that many of us don’t know what to do about it when faced with the scale of it.

GLOBAL coffee giant, Starbucks, is to open its first Cork City centre store, at no 39 Princes Street, a few doors away from the famed English Market.

A woman accused of arranging to send €20,000 to her husband fighting in Syria concealed in her friend’s underwear is "foul-mouthed" and a "phone-addicted, weed-smoking kaffir" and an unlikely terrorist, her barrister has told a court.

Blaming a pub owner for the alleged injuries of a woman during a rush to grab a spot prize at an Ann Summers sex toy party would fly in the face of common sense, a court has been told.

Kilkenny created history accounting for St Mary’s Castleisland in the senior men’s National Cup semi-final at Neptune Stadium.

It is official, then. Janet Yellen is to become the first female ‘chairman’ of the US central bank next February and as such, she will be in a position to affect all our lives.

Wall Street was happy to see Larry Summers go.

Former US treasury secretary Lawrence Summers has withdrawn from consideration to be chairman of the Federal Reserve, saying it would hurt the nation for him to go forward with what would be a contentious confirmation before the US Senate.

Global markets took cheer after a key player pulled out of the race to head America's central bank, lifting hopes that the US will keep the printing presses rolling.

The perception is that the foreign operations of US multinationals are at the expense of the US economy but the facts say otherwise, writes Laura Tyson

Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J Edgar Hoover

The highest court in the UK today granted permission for Julian Assange to appeal against his extradition to Sweden, where he faces sex crime allegations.

A “THANKFUL” Julian Assange has won a last chance to seek to block his extradition from Britain to Sweden, where he faces sex crime allegations.

The biggest names in music celebrated the singer’s 60th on Saturday night, watched by Des O’Mahony

A BOOK described as “the most complete and definitive account of 9/11” will have its Irish launch tonight in Dungarvan.

ANTHONY SUMMERS and Robyn Swan’s office is organised chaos.

A HIT-AND-RUN victim who was completely paralysed from the waist down has stood up on his own and taken faltering steps on a treadmill after pioneering treatment.

President Barack Obama’s top economic adviser, Lawrence Summers, plans to leave the White House at the end of the year, a move that comes as the administration struggles to show an anxious public it is making progress on the economy.

The US economy is showing “glimmers of hope” despite continuing stresses, President Barack Obama said today as he signalled more steps to improve the business climate.

Supermodel Kate Moss is to romp with a human rabbit and take part in a simulated orgy in 'We are (not) sex people' new video.

A woman, whose husband is on trial for her murder, was not wearing her wedding ring a week before her death, a witness has told a jury in the Central Criminal Court.

Stewart Copeland has been relieved of his job as The Police's online blogger after poking fun at Sting in an early attempt.

THE Police kicked off their reunion tour in Vancouver, Canada, before a sellout crowd of 20,000 — not bad for a group playing in their first stadium in more than 20 years.

The Police kicked off their reunion tour in Vancouver, Canada, before a sell-out crowd of 20,000 – not bad for a group playing their first stadium in more than 20 years.

The Police reunion is suffering "heated discussions" but guitarist Andy Summers insists they're giving the band a positive "edge".

Belfast rockers Snow Patrol have parted company from their manager Jazz Summers.

Iran’s official Arabic-language television channel today aired short video clips of what it said were two of the 15 captured British sailors who in the footage pointed to a map of the Persian Gulf.

Rock trio the Police are secretly lining up a string of reunion dates in Britain and America, according to US music industry reports.

The Football Association and Premier League have been urged to take a leaf out of the UK Jockey Club’s book to tackle allegations of corruption and wrongdoing in the game.

Movie siren Ava Gardner underwent two abortions in the space of three months, according to Frank Sinatra biographers Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan - and only one of the babies was her husband Sinatra's.

The president of prestigious Harvard University in the US has come under attack on his own campus for saying that innate differences might explain why women lag in science and maths.

Pop rebel Christina Aguilera's naughty nurse advert for Skechers trainers has been shelved after complaints from America's nursing body.

Sergeant Gene Arden Vance was a newlywed preparing for his honeymoon when his National Guard unit was called up for duty after the September 11 terrorist attacks.