Almost six out of 10 Irish people have experienced serious concern about the prospect of losing their job over the past year, it has been claimed today.

The bound and gagged bodies of 26 men were found in the heart of Guadalajara, a sign that full-scale war between Mexican drug cartels may have come to the picturesque western city which hosted last month’s Pan American Games.

THE late Swedish author Stieg Larsson has become the first writer to sell more than one million ebooks on the online retail site Amazon.

TWO teenage boffins have been invited to a global gathering of some of the world’s best young scientists and inventors.

THE Lord Mayor of Cork has criticised the Irish pavilion at the World Expo in Shanghai for failing to promote his city – the only Irish city twinned with the massive Chinese metropolis.

IN his letter (March 11), Michael Geary suggested the Cork Marketing Partnership’s efforts at the Shanghai Expo would be worthwhile because they would promote business tourism, and not the regular tourism that the Irish visa system discourages from China.

FIRST it was the Lonely Planet. Now Yahoo China has boosted Cork’s tourism stock even further.

Dublin: The Irish Franchise Association hosts the Ulster Bank Irish Franchise Association EXPO and Awards 2010 at Croke Park, Dublin, on February 19 and 20.

Ten giant panda cubs born after the 2008 deadly earthquake in China’s Sichuan province were on their way today to Shanghai to go on display during this year’s World Expo.

The United States may be unable to finance a pavilion for the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai.

THEY say you can’t be in two places at once, but the country’s most famous traditional dancing troupe will prove that wrong on St Patrick’s Day.