Students for Trump at Pennsylvania State University couldn’t wait for Donald so they built their own wall, writes Caroline O’Doherty

Rio 2016 sponsors are taking an extra step to prove their commitment to the Games and forever marry their brands to the Olympic rings: They’re hiring Olympians.

Q. My boyfriend and I have been going out for just over six months. The sex is great, but he is so quiet when we’re in bed that it makes me uncomfortable.

My girlfriend likes to take sex really slow. I also love that, but we don’t always have time in our busy lives to dedicate an hour or more to it (including foreplay).

Sharon Ni Chonchuir looks at new research that suggests people are less stressed in their jobs than at home, bringing a whole new meaning to the work-life balance debate.

Next August’s College Football Croke Park Classic will bring Bandon’s Sean Galvin home. John Riordan spoke to the University of Florida kicker ahead of today’s clash at Penn State. Getting to one day play in Croke Park was the plan all along for Sean Galvin.

Getting to one day play in Croke Park was the plan all along for Sean Galvin.

A leaden cloak of responsibility lies on the shoulders of UN scientists as they finalise the first volume of a huge report that will give the world the most detailed picture yet of climate change.

Páraic Duffy loves American sport.

THERE is, it seems, only one way to lose weight if you are a celebrity and that is to avoid food. Or at least to avoid chewing it. Dukan, Atkins and other diet fads that advocate the restriction of a food group come and go out of fashion, but the only steadfast route to super-skinniness appears to come in liquid form.

The US sports coach at the centre of a child abuse scandal has been sentenced to at least 30 years in jail.

A young man who testified against a former college American football coach sued Penn State University, blaming it for how its top officials dealt with complaints that Jerry Sandusky behaved inappropriately with boys.

The verdict is in: Global warming is real and greenhouse-gas emissions from human activity are the main cause.

Researchers in Chile have released a series of time-lapse photos showing the dramatic retreat of a glacier in Patagonia.

Thousands more emails from the university at the centre of the “climategate” row over global warming science two years ago appear to have been posted online today.

US federal scientists said they found damage to deep sea corals and other marine life several miles from where BP’s blown-out well spewed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

Astronomers say they have for the first time spotted a planet in what is sometimes called "the Goldilocks zone" - an area where conditions to support life are just right.

FOR parents having trouble getting their babies to sleep, an American study suggests being emotionally available to baby’s needs is key to a good night’s sleep.

POLAR bears, seals and walruses are among a host of wildlife being hit by “devastating changes” brought on by warming temperatures in the Arctic, scientists warned yesterday.

SCIENTISTS may have found a new weapon in the battle with the Aids virus, it was revealed yesterday.

Hillary Clinton, who has feasted on adversity in the Democratic presidential primaries, is rejecting calls from some key Barack Obama supporters to drop out of the race for the good of the party.

Living microbes found in what could be 1 million-year-old ice on a remote Arctic island support a theory the frozen planet Mars could also sustain life, researchers said today.

In the final push, President George Bush and his opponent Senator John Kerry are saying more about less.

IBM today announced a €400,000 investment in university research, with Smurfit School, University College Dublin (UCD) and Trinity College Dublin (TCD) being the benefactors.

For smokers separated from their cigarettes, time seems to stand still. New research indicates there’s good reason for that.