In a remote corner of Ghana ‘telemedicine’ is proving how effective digital care can be when coverage is extended to those on the medical margins, write Koku Awoonor-William and Ann Aerts

I’ve never met Orla Tinsley, for example, but my admiration for her is boundless, writes Fergus Finlay. 

A homeless man who was hailed a hero in the aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing in the UK has admitted stealing a purse and mobile phone from stricken victims of the attack.

Well-wishers have been sending their thoughts across the Atlantic for cystic fibrosis campaigner Orla Tinsley who had a long-awaited double lung transplant in New York on Wednesday night.

A Dublin based digital marketing company has secured €4.2m in new business this year.

Facebook is so good at ‘microtargeting’ that many e-commerce start-ups barely even bother advertising anywhere else — a shift with frightening implications for companies and consumers alike. Burt Helm reports

If there is any further dragging of heels by the banks, he must exercise the full range of powers at his disposal — and demand more from Donohoe if necessary, writes Daniel McConnell, Political Editor

A man hailed a "homeless hero" at the scene of the Manchester Arena bombing has denied stealing a purse and mobile phone from victims of the attack.

Innovative research into irritable bowel syndrome, a condition which causes agonising pain to thousands of sufferers, will be presented at a prestigious international conference in Cork this week.

Orla Tinsley, a campaigner for people with cystic fibrosis, thought her wait for a double lung transplant was over last weekend. But it was not to be.

E Lockhart expects the audiences at her Irish readings to ask about the fate of the canines in her young adult classic, We Were Liars, writes Áilín Quinlan

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Chelsea Clinton has said she does not have her sights set on running for public office

Should the final say on what the Constitution does or does not mean rest exclusively with seven unelected people? TP O’Mahony weighs up the evidence and looks at the judicial activism of the Irish Supreme Court.

Eoghan O’Sullivan has all your entertainment news for the week right here.

President Donald Trump has nominated Neil Gorsuch, a fast-rising conservative judge, to the Supreme Court, setting up a clash with Democrats.

Ireland would be wrong to appeal Apple tax ruling, says ex-World Bank economist.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

He has an Irish name and an English accent but writer Patrick Flanery is an all-American boy, as Sue Leonard discovers.

Health apps might help scientists learn new truths about our bodies because we’re more honest with our phones than our doctors, says Jenna Wortham.

Connoisseurs of fine wine should be drinking a toast to global warming, according to new research.

Denmark overtook Switzerland as the world’s happiest place, according to a report that urged nations regardless of wealth to tackle inequality and protect the environment.

Baio is the stage name of Chris Baio, bass player with arena alternative rockers Vampire Weekend. But the music the 31-year-old New Yorker makes as a solo artist is quite a distance from Vampire Weekend’s preppy jangle-pop, writes Ed Power. 

It will take more than $40 crude to make the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) change its mind, analysts said before the group’s December 4 meeting in Vienna.

Emily Lockhart writes for young adults but does not shy away from themes no matter how difficult they are but, she tells Tony Clayton-Lea that it is important to realise that her readers are on a journey of exploration.

Shut up, Jurassic World, you're stupid.

It’s all about dinosaurs this week, after Jurrasic World crushed previous box office records in its opening weekend.

USA: Two women who took a writing class at Columbia University found that their own stories were better than fiction.

We take a look at some of the quirkier and fun stories from around the world.

Over the four years that researcher Xi Li has watched Syria’s civil war unfold through nighttime satellite imagery, he has seen the pinpricks of light that dotted the north and east fade and the Mediterranean coast darken until 83% of the country’s lights have gone out.

Women over 60 are having a ‘moment’ and it’s not a senior one. More confidence, more energy and they couldn’t care less what you think. 

JUST hours before Irish Water reminded us yesterday morning how very precarious our water supply is and that just under half — 49% — of the water processed for drinking in the State is lost because of endemic leaks in a dilapidated system, researchers at Columbia University warned that America’s south-west and the Great Plains will face decade-long droughts far worse than any experienced over the last 1,000 years because of climate change.

CASEY BLACK stands in the yard of his gorgeously tumbledown Tennessee farmhouse, luxuriating in the silence. “You can come out here and scream and nobody will hear you,” he chuckles in a tone that suggests shouting at the vast western skies is something he contemplates on a weekly – possibly daily – basis.

Human rights investigators don’t campaign from a keyboard. A new documentary shows the dangers they face in reporting abuse and atrocities, says Jonathan deBurca Butler

EMMA Sulkowicz, a senior visual arts student at Columbia University in the US, has been lugging a 50 lb mattress around her college campus for months in a protest against the college’s failure to expel the man who raped her.

Welcome to your Wednesday morning briefing. Let us ensure you’re up to speed on what’s happening and are prepared for the day ahead.

Three scientists, including a Norwegian married couple, have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering the “inner GPS” that helps the brain navigate through the world.