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

Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney has said that boycotts never work. Could it be that he has never heard of the Land League or of Michael Davitt?

The main talking point in this year’s Teagasc National Farm Survey results is the stellar rise in dairy farm incomes for 2017, increasing 65% about 2016 levels.

The conversion of the hall into a hostel was ruled to be in material contravention of the area's local development plan.

Prosecutors in the North are considering appealing against the sentences of a couple convicted of sexually abusing a mentally disordered woman while holding her captive for eight years.

The British state, in the UK and Ireland, had done little more than exterminate ‘unwanted’ babies, writes Victoria White.

A man who was attacked and had boiling water thrown over him as he watched a rugby match in a Dublin city hostel has sued for damages in the High Court.

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Former bride-to-be Yiru Sun refused to let life get her down after being forced to cancel her wedding.

A prosthetic leg, a life-sized Spiderman doll and “enough musical instruments to form a band” have been lost on London’s travel network.

US: A 40-year-old St Louis woman has spent months trying to convince credit reporting agencies that she’s alive.

GERMANY: A Berlin coffee business found stimulants it didn’t expect in a shipment of unroasted coffee from Brazil: 33kg (nearly 73lb) of cocaine.

USA: Body art is not for animals, at least not in New York.

Police in England rescued eight people from “cramped and filthy” conditions at a caravan site following an investigation into them potentially being held as slaves and subjected to work exploitation.

Police in England have rescued eight men from a farm following an investigation into potential slavery and servitude.

The Californian has since received a reward for his honesty.

With all the screaming and carrying on, their neighbours thought they’d won the lottery. But it was a lumpy old sofa stuffed with $40,000 in cash that had three young roommates raising a ruckus.

Three young US roommates found more than $40,000 in cash in an old sofa they bought from a second-hand shop.

At least we were not alone in treating orphans and children belonging to unmarried mothers abominably in the past.

Cracks appear as Ford drops another clanger

Six of the people arrested in the UK in connection with a slavery ring have been released on bail.

Three men who are believed to be victims of slavery have been taken to a place of safety following a series of raids by UK police.

Butcher’s body was found floating off Co Down coast, says David Young

Philip Stewart tells Pádraic Killeen how the Salvation Army provided musical inspiration for GB Shaw’s Major Barbara

HOW MANY times has someone come back from the shops, picked up a Penneys’ item and wondered “How do they make it for this price?”

Nelson Mandela's granddaughter has told reporters outside the hospital where he is being treated that her grandfather is "critical but ... in a stable condition".

Six people were killed when a building that was being demolished collapsed, raining bricks on a neighbouring charity shop and injuring at least 13 others.

A woman and at least 13 people have been injured in an accident in Philadelphia that at least one witness said was bound to happen.

A four-story building being demolished has collapsed in Philadelphia, injuring 12 people and trapping two others, the fire commissioner said.

Just when you think you've seen everything the internet has to offer, up pop the animated highlights of the 2013 Six Nations Championship - in LEGO.

The violin played by the bandmaster of the Titanic as the oceanliner sank has been unearthed, a British auction house revealed.

Tommy Barker slipped and sloped back into skiing after 30 years away, with some chalet highlife in spectacular Meribel.

A British Royal Marine Commando will abseil with the Olympic flame into the Tower of London today.

Disco star Donna Summer has died aged 63, her publicist said.

A serious fire has “severely damaged” celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage Park Farm.

Joanna Yeates suffered a slow and painful death as her next-door neighbour strangled her with his bare hands, a court heard today.

FURTHER revelations about criminal activity at the News of the World are likely to surface as the police investigation intensifies into Britain’s best-selling tabloid, which will cease publication tomorrow.

Budgets are tight and bonuses are scarce but this hasn’t stopped Irish companies from getting into the festive spirit for charity. Niamh Hennessy takes a look at what firms did for charity this Christmas.

NUMBERS of homeless people seeking emergency accommodation through an after-hours helpline almost doubled over a six-month period this year in a surge described as “unsustainable with the current resource” by Community Welfare Officers (CWOs).

NEW Zealand prepared for further destruction as after shocks and an approaching storm threatened an area hit by the most devastating earthquake in decades.