The winners of the prestigious competition have been announced at the Natural History Museum in London. Here are some of the top picks from several of the categories, including two for young photographers.

Pittsburgh is a city transformed and on the rise. Yet it still finds time to reflect on its fascinating history, writes Joe Leogue.

The public toilets at the Natural History Museum and Heuston Station have tested positive for cocaine residue.

Salvage is no longer the preserve of rough and ready rag and bone yards, but a thriving aspect of modern interior design with built-in conservation and eco credentials, writes Carol O’Callaghan.

In every generation there is a new Frankenstein.

Uncovering forgotten history can help explain why science still has a masculine bias today.

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Los Angeles isn’t just about movie stars and the Oscars, writes Sara Benson.

It is one of the most significant projects to be undertaken in the State, yet the Cork events centre only gets a mention in Project Ireland 2040.

Pope Francis will visit Ireland in 2018. Whether he will venture into the North isn’t yet known but, later in the year, Belfast will welcome another distinguished visitor.

The Natural History Museum in London has just released some of the pictures from its annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition. 

Brexit, Trumpism, developers, censorship, architecture, and integration are among topics that will be explored during Limerick Civic Trust’s six-week autumn lecture series, beginning this month.

It was a lucky week for fishermen as rare creatures of the deep were caught off the Kerry and Clare coast.

A collector has been convicted of capturing, killing and possessing specimens of Britain's rarest butterfly - the Large Blue.

Rose Martin takes a look at what’s happening in the world of design and interiors this week. 

Eoghan Clonan, 13, has to lie on the ground of the Natural History Museum so his father Tom can carry his wheelchair up to the first floor, because there is no lift in this national building.

Scientists have worked out why birds do not go grey as they age – a discovery they say could lead to a new generation of fade-proof paint and clothing.

Your weekly guide to some new family friendly products online and in the shops.

Payouts to visitors who were injured when a staircase collapsed in the so-called Dead Zoo are set to cost the taxpayer more than €905,000.

Irish fans hardly need a map for the English and Welsh capitals but taste buds will be tickled by the prospect of first visits to Wembley and the Olympic Stadium

Humanity’s claim to uniqueness just suffered a major setback: scientists reported that a newly discovered ancient species related to humans also appeared to bury its dead.

THERE may still be a few dinosaurs in Leinster House but, thanks to the vision and purpose of Lawrence Dundas, third Earl and first marquess of Zetland, mayor of Richmond in Yorkshire and Knight of the Thistle, remnants of the real things have enjoyed more tranquil surroundings for the past 125 years.

Conor Kane takes advantage of the new Waterford-London route and enjoys a day trip in the city.

ENGLAND: The Natural History Museum’s famous cast of a Diplodocus skeleton — affectionately known as Dippy — is to be sent on a tour of Britain.

Spiders are able to travel across water like ships, using their legs as sails and silk as an anchor, scientists have learned.

Mark Evans and his six-year-old son hit the British capital to see the sights and found there was a lot more for a child to experience than dinosaurs, Big Ben and a big wheel    

Hillwalking, climbing and mountaineering have long been favourite pastimes in this country. Dan MacCarthy says Paddy O’Leary’s new history captures the intense rivalry of these sports’ participants

Dippy the Diplodocus has become a monster trending hit on Twitter as supporters rally to stop him being put out to pasture by the Natural History Museum — and being replaced by a blue whale from Wexford Harbour.

Dublin’s Merrion Square West has retained its status as the capital’s top clamping blackspot for catching motorists without valid parking tickets.

An iconic Roy Keane photo is just one of 100 pieces assembled by Dorothy Cross from various collections for a major exhibition at IMMA, writes Alan O’Riordan

Scientists have uncovered amazing details about the life of a woolly mammoth after its preserved body was found frozen in the snowy wastes of Siberia.

Manly knee-slaps rock the polite simmer of exchange in the living-room....“I nailed that one coming around a corner!”

WE ARE that stereotypical Cork family that never leaves the confines of the county to venture to the bright lights of Dublin.

Peter Delaney tells Richard Fitzpatrick about his prizewinning picture in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition.

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An exhibitions manager at the Natural History Museum who had to leave her job when she developed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after she was trapped on a bus has won £522,379 damages.

Scientists have pieced together the oldest human DNA ever recovered after extracting it from the thigh bone of an individual who died 400,000 years ago.

NEW ZEALAND: Cat owners aren’t feline fine after a local council passed a bylaw limiting the number of cats that can be kept in a household.

One of the world’s rarest whales was photographed from the deck of the Celtic Mist on Sep 4.

ONE night recently, as I drove my daughter and her husband west from Cork airport, they spotted a pine marten with its bushy tail and white bib loping into the woodland skirting the Bandon River near Inishannon.