I’m writing this just a few dozen hours before Barack Obama steps down and I’m reminded of how often he and his wife seemed to talk about food.

A 16-year-old Cork girl became hysterical after she was dragged unconscious and in a state of undress from a car after a sex attack, and left on the side of the street.

 

Coca-Cola has posted first-quarter results that mostly met analysts’ expectations, underwhelming investors who had been optimistic that a stronger turnaround was taking hold.

The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland has welcomed the announcement of plans to introduce a new £520m (€660m) levy on sugary drinks in Britain within two years.

The latest tool to help women achieve the perfect hour-glass figure is the waist trainer, made popular by Kim Kardashian. Deirdre Reynolds tests it out.

When he hit 22 stone, Darryn Loughnane knew he had to drastically change his lifestyle.

Here’s a science experiment you can try at home. But, if this video’s anything to go by, we’re not really sure that you would want to.

It will cost twice as much as regular milk and have 50% more protein and calcium ,

Coca-Cola is set to launch its own brand of premium milk - which will cost twice as much as regular milk.

Almost one third of the world is now fat, and no country has been able to curb obesity rates in the last three decades, according to a new global analysis.

I’ll tell you who I’d vote for. I’d vote for any candidate who promises to abolish political opinion polls.

Entombed at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in an upended tugboat for three days, Harrison Odjegba Okene begged God for a miracle.

It has been about 10 years since self-service machines were introduced to Irish supermarkets Róisín Burke finds that, while they’re here to stay, employees need not fear them... yet.

Oxfam has urged global food and drinks firms such as Coca-Cola and PepsiCo to adopt a zero tolerance policy on land grabs, most notably among their sugar suppliers.

Coca-Cola has lost its crown as the world’s best brand, unseated by the iPhone and iPad maker Apple.

Coke is still it, at least as far as Irish consumers are concerned as a new list of the best-selling brands in the country shows Coca Cola is the most popular.

Lana Del Rey has appeared to slam Lady Gaga in a leaked track posted online.

It’s now Coke with an Irish twist as Coca-Cola has replaced its iconic white lettered logo with some of Ireland’s most popular names.

A lawyer today recalled the "living nightmare" of representing one of James Bulger's child murderers, ahead of the 20th anniversary of the toddler's death.

Unabashed sentimentality took the unofficial Super Bowl trophy for advertising brilliance, with draft horses and pickup trucks both putting a lump in America’s collective throat.

Pepsi has announced a deal with Michael Jackson’s estate to use his image in a new global adverts campaign.

Pepsi has announced a deal with Michael Jackson’s estate to use his image in a new global adverts campaign.

DEAR Terry, I have to say I loved your piece in yesterday’s paper.

IT could be because the Government has done everything right from the moment they grabbed their seals of office from Mary McAleese and lashed back to Leinster House to get started.

Coca-Cola Co, the world’s largest soft-drink maker, reported fourth-quarter profit that topped analysts’ estimates as teas and juices boosted sales in Asia.

TEATIME wasn’t progressing too well that evening last week – negotiations with the two-year-old on blueberries as a viable dessert had broken down irrevocably, it seemed – when a half-heard comment at the end of the radio sports news seeped through.

BEFORE I landed in Maputo, the images of Mozambique I’d been toying with were predictable.

FOR Don Draper, advertising is based on one thing: happiness.

IRELAND’s eventual national food logo will be green, but almost everything else about Brand Ireland will have to be collectively teased out by the industry’s stakeholders, according to Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney.

NOTHING gets the juices flowing like a secret recipe.

Wayne Rooney has admitted he was wrong to swear into a TV camera.

RENOWNED artist Jim Fitzpatrick has launched a legal bid to finally get the rights of his famous picture of Che Guevara.

Following bloodshed over his capture, Jamaican gang leader Christopher “Dudus” Coke arrived in New York City under tight security yesterday to face charges he flooded the East Coast with shipments of cocaine and marijuana, authorities said.

Jamaica’s top policeman vowed today to capture the reputed underworld boss who escaped a bloody four-day assault on his slum stronghold amid growing claims that innocent people died during the fighting.

Thousands of police and soldiers stormed the Jamaican ghettos where reggae was born in search of a reputed drug kingpin wanted by the United States, intensifying a third day of street battles that have killed at least 30 people.

THOUSANDS of heavily armed police and soldiers continued an assault into the capital’s most violent downtown slums yesterday, scouring buildings for weapons and battling die-hard defenders of a powerful Jamaican gang leader sought by the US.

Thousands of heavily armed police and soldiers barged past barricades into Jamaica's most violent slums today, clashing with die-hard defenders of a gang leader sought by the US, leaving at least 30 people dead.

X Factor has Grimes twins — we have Brians Grim

THE European Union wants national competition authorities to investigate why huge drops in the prices paid to farmers for milk, butter and cheese are not being passed on to consumers.

THE EU wants national competition authorities to investigate why huge drops in the prices paid to farmers for milk, butter and cheese are not being passed on to consumers.

WE GOT our full measure of Olympic moments in the Beijing Games, topped by Michael Phelps’s eight gold medals and Usain Bolt’s lightning sprints.