Maynooth University has today been recognised as one of the leading new universities in the world.

It was an ominous start for the 2,268 Chinese delegates at a pivotal congress to initiate a power handover to new leaders.

China’s ruling communists have opened a pivotal congress to initiate a power handover to new leaders with a broad promise of cleaner government.

Chinese leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping reappeared in public today following a two-week absence that had sparked rumours about his health and raised questions about the stability of the country’s succession process.

Famous astrophysicist Stephen Hawking today said that the late Pope John Paul II once told scientists they should not study the beginning of the universe because it was the work of God.