Up to 120,000 visitors a year are expected to attend a free exhibition of the late Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney’s original manuscripts and unpublished poems in one of Dublin’s most historic buildings.

Amy Schumer’s mainstream appeal is about to be tested with her feature debut, “Trainwreck”. Ahead of her red carpet appearance in Dublin this week, the comedian gives Melena Ryzik some interview time.

A scary problem lurks beyond the frenzied efforts to keep people from spreading ebola: No one knows exactly where the virus comes from or how to stop it from seeding new outbreaks.

As research shows high cholesterol levels can reduce a couple’s chance of conceiving a baby, a leading Irish fertility expert has said up to 40% of his new patients may have fertility problems due to their poor lifestyle.

* My husband and I have been trying for a baby for four months, and it is stressful. I’m enjoying sex less now because it’s functional.

ARISTOTLE, who was born in 384BC, considered elephants superior to all other animals in ‘wit and mind’. Many wildlife rangers, zookeepers, and mahouts living with working elephants, would agree.

KELLY OSBOURNE said Lady Gaga was a “butter-face. She has everything but the face.”

It may sound like a load of balls, but scientists have claimed that the size of a man’s testicles will determine how active he will be in bringing up his kids.

AS Susan sits chatting to a nurse in a clinic, a light tapping sound by her head signals that parts of her brain are being zapped by thousands of tiny electromagnetic pulses from a machine plugged into the wall.

The brain may be better suited to a split cycle of sleep, reports Richard Fitzpatrick.

Every aspiring scientist dreams of some day making a discovery so illustrious that it lands them a spot on the stage of the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.

HE CAME into office on a wave of promise and promises.

MONKEYS have a human- like ability to recall shapes from memory and “draw” them on a computer screen, a study has shown.

A woman in the US was alerted by her dog that she had cancer.

The daughter of the Reverend Martin Luther King has been chosen as the first woman to head the civil rights organisation that he co-founded.

ONE week into the US general election race, the polls show a dead heat. But many US presidential scholars doubt that John McCain stands much of a chance, if any.

RECENTLY you reported the drive to get people, particularly those over 65, to have the flu vaccine.

British novelist Salman Rushdie is to join Emory University in Atlanta and donate his archive to the institution, it has been revealed.

Health experts have reported a disturbing increase around the world in tuberculosis infections resistant to antibiotics.

A LONG-STANDING marketing mystery - why Coke sells more than Pepsi even though it is less popular in blind taste tests - has been solved by a brain scan study, it was revealed yesterday.

The recording industry in the US sued another 477 computer users – including dozens of college students at schools in 11 states – accusing them of illegally sharing music across the Internet.

The recording industry in the United States sued another 477 computer users today – including dozens of college students at schools in 11 states – accusing them of illegally sharing music across the Internet.

Atlanta’s Emory University has no plans to rescind an invitation to former Irish president and UN human rights official Mary Robinson to be the keynote speaker at its May 10 graduation ceremony, despite a petition claiming she failed to show sensitivity to anti-Semitism.

IN August 2001, Mary Robinson made a dramatic gesture of solidarity with victims of anti-Semitism.

The word “evolution” will be removed from school books in the deep south of the United States under a proposal unveiled today.

Irish Nobel prize winning poet Seamus Heaney is to donate thousands of literary papers and letters to an American university.

MONKEYS and trade union activists share a common trait — both are prepared to go on strike for equal pay, scientists said yesterday.

EARLIER this month, in a Texas courtroom, a motion was filed to re-open Roe v. Wade, the 1973 case that made abortion legal in the United States.

BEIJING city officials told 4,000 people suspected of being exposed to SARS to stay home yesterday, as quarantined medical workers in Taiwan held a rowdy protest and Hong Kong hospitals were accused of failing to protect frontline doctors from the deadly bug.

Efforts to build a national memorial honouring Martin Luther King Jr have stalled because the American civil rights leader’s family wants money to use his name and likeness in the marketing campaign.