Panic buying in Australia, the United States and Britain saw leaders appeal for calm over the virus that has infected over 138,000 people globally and killed more than 5,000.

An Irish aid worker who died earlier this year is among those to be recognised by the Presidential Distinguished Service Awards for the Irish Abroad.

Last November, I stood on the riverbank of the Rio Grande. I was on the American side, in Texas.

The mother of a man who drowned alongside his young daughter while trying to reach the US has said she is comforted by how they clung to each other in their final moments.

The two-year-old's arm was draped around her father's neck, suggesting she clung to him in her final moments.

A retired Irish aid worker has been killed in a road collision in Guatemala.

It must take a lot to leave your home, young child, maybe even newborn in tow, to walk a thousand miles to a place you’ve heard separates families at its border and uses “outdoor fenced spaces” as “shelter”.

These shipments are rarely just about saving lives, writes Morten Wendelbo.

Pope Francis has said fear of migration is "making us crazy" as he began a trip to Central America amid a standoff over President Donald Trump's promised wall at the US-Mexico border and a new caravan of migrants heading north.

Trump may not have built his wall but he is effectively deterring immigration through detentions, deportations, separations, threats and a culture of fear, writes Bette Browne

Nearly 7,000 Syrians will be allowed to remain in the United States for another 18 months, the Trump administration has said, but no more Syrian citizens will be able to apply for the special protection programme.

Uefa is considering a cap on agents’ fees following a meeting of its Professional Football Strategy Group.

US attorney general Jeff Sessions has said he intends to stay in the job and fight for President Donald Trump's agenda.

Donald Trump's new communications director has exploded smouldering tensions at the White House into a wildfire, angrily daring the US president's chief of staff to deny he was a "leaker" and exposing West Wing backstabbing in language more suited to a gangster movie.

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The arc of Eamonn Casey’s life had many highlights, all of which are aptly recalled in the wake of his death.

Two gang members who are in the US illegally held three teenage girls against their will in Houston, Texas, and killed one of them in a satanic ritual, authorities have said.

As Donald Trump begins his crackdown against refugees and immigrants in the US, Bette Browne looks at the history of a movement trying to maintain American values

A €200m project is to create 23 solar farms in the south and south east of the country, leading to 2,000 jobs during construction and 60 full-time positions on completion.

Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega has been re-elected, setting the stage for his third consecutive term - but this time accompanied by his wife as vice president.

BROADCASTER Hector Ó hEochagáin is on the move again to celebrate TG4’s 20th anniversary.

Named after a Pink Floyd song, Irish group Overhead, The Albatross are impressing with their new album, writes Eoghan O’Sullivan.

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has said women in countries hit by the Zika virus should have access to birth control methods, dropping laws against abortion in some cases.

The cases of babies born with unusually small heads continue to rise in Brazil where researchers said they had found evidence linking the increase to the mosquito-born Zika virus spreading through the Americas.

Killings spiked by nearly 70% last year in the gang-plagued El Salvador, authorities said, resulting in a homicide rate that could make it the world’s most violent country.

A twice-condemned serial killer who claimed he was intellectually disabled has been executed in Virginia after a series of last-minute appeals failed.

A British man and his wife, who feared their baby had been swapped at birth and sold to human traffickers in El Salvador, have been reunited with their son, after authorities tracked down the child by ordering other new mothers to have their babies DNA-tested.

SINCE its foundation in 1961, Amnesty International has worked to free prisoners of conscience, victims of torture, and those facing the death penalty.

Molly Sterling represents Ireland in the Eurovision semi-final on Thursday.

While taoiseach in 1982 Charles Haughey fulfilled the invitation to the White House for St Patrick’s Day that had been extended to his predecessor Garret Fitz-Gerald. Mr Haughey then invited the president to Ireland on a state visit.

Six prisoners from Guantanamo Bay have been transferred to Uruguay, the US government has revealed.

A sanitised presentation of conflict on TV screens, and the use of unmanned drones to carry out attacks, leaves many people unaware of the full horror of war, writes Dan Buckley

Orgilgo Bay should prove hard to catch in the four-runner Follow On Twitter & Facebook Rated Hurdle in Punchestown today.

Teenage rider Donnacha O’Brien hit the headlines at the Curragh yesterday with a landmark success on El Salvador in the Irish Cesarewitch.

The Tony Martin-trained Quick Jack has been cut to 6-1 favourite (from 7) with the sponsors for Saturday’s Betfred Cesarewitch after standing his ground yesterday for the marathon handicap.

THERE are plenty of good cafés in Ireland and they have given us a taste for good home brews. 

About 120 million girls worldwide have been forced to have sex, according to a United Nations report.

I’m sorry to read Mr Barry Walsh took such exception (Letters, August 28) to my comments that Mr Kenny is simply not up to the job he was elected to do.

Patrick Prendergast’s Manalapan is fancied to have the legs on Aidan O’Brien’s El Salvador in the mile and five Her Majesty’s Plate at Down Royal tonight.

The Central American crisis is another spanner in the works for the 11m illegal immigrants in the US, including some 55,000 of whom are Irish, hoping for a path to citizenship.

FOR the tens of thousands of Central American unaccompanied children who have entered into the US in recent years, the journey doesn’t stop at the border: They must appear at an immigration hearing where a judge decides if they have legal relief to stay in the country.

Aidan O’Brien’s El Salvador found plenty in the closing stages to justify favouritism in the SeanieMac.com Race at Killarney last night.

El Salvador can land the SeanieMac.com Race over a mile and six at Killarney tonight.