The challenges facing the media industry and opportunities and potential of digital technologies were some of the issues discussed during a visit of a group of Japanese students to the Irish Examiner.

Three more workers in a polio eradication campaign were shot in Pakistan, and two of them were killed, the latest in an unprecedented string of attacks over the past three days that has partially halted the UN-backed campaign.

A supposedly friendly guide for migrant workers new to Russia has caused a storm of resentment after portraying them as paint brushes, brooms and other low-skill tools.

Iran has decided to resume the research into nuclear fuel production that has long been suspended, a top nuclear official said on state television today.

Iran led international media on a tour of its first nuclear power plant today, an invitation that followed US accusations that it is designed for weapons technology, not energy production.