During excavations at Paul St in central Exeter in 1983, archaeologists found the leg and wingbones of a large bird.

Nicky Minaj has fought her way to the top of the music industry – and never made compromises,writes Roxanne Gay. 

A supreme court judge in Brazil has dismissed a request to suspend the court hearing of Kevin Mallon, the THG executive arrested on the eve of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro last year.

Rory McIlroy is looking to avoid a first season without a win since 2008 when he tees it up at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship this week in the company of his father Gerry.

Children are waiting 18 months to see a cardiologist, it has emerged, writes Evelyn Ring.

Children are waiting 18 months to see a cardiologist, it has emerged.

A Cork company lauded for some of the most imaginative software development in the world has two more lifesaving apps in the works that could transform individual sea safety and responses to cardiac events.

A serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper should be sentenced to death for murdering nine women and a teenage girl over more than two decades in south Los Angeles, a jury decided on Monday.

YES, the sights are wondrous in this retracing of the journey of 18th century explorer John Franklin. 

Their bodies were dumped in alleys and rubbish bins in South Los Angeles, some naked, some covered with mattresses and trash. Most had been shot in the chest after sexual contact, others strangled.

The Cloudspotter by Tom McLaughlin (Bloomsbury €13.85)

WHAT do Steven Spielberg, JK Rowling, Paul McCartney and Allan Alcorn have in common?

IT’S A LONG way from the Arctic that Cormac James was reared. Born and raised in Ballincollig in Cork — when he was still Cormac McCarthy — Cormac James has lived in Montpellier in France for the past 12 years.

With a small log carrier that’s especially designed for Irish woodlands, Meath company Falcon has won the overall prize in the Innovation Arena awards at the National Ploughing Championships.

There can hardly be an Arctic misadventure or mystery more remembered in song and legend than the 1845 exhibition led by John Franklin to Canada’s Northwest Passage.

Someone is dropping envelopes full of cash across San Francisco — and causing an international frenzy on social media.

The family of Limerick teenager Chloe Kinsella whose body was recovered from the River Shannon a week after she went missing say their appeal to young people to avoid alcohol has “fallen on deaf ears”.

Young teens will use 'pester power' to get games like GTA for Christmas, but do parents realise what's involved?

Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin has said it categorically supports the planned home of the new national children’s hospital after one of its senior doctors spoke out against it.

A vital facility catering for some of Ireland’s most seriously ill children has been dragged into the 21st century after big-hearted private donors stepped in to fill a Government funding hole.

Davy Fitzgerald is set to remain as Clare senior hurling manager for another three years following last night’s county board meeting.

So fare thee well Lance Franklin. We hardly knew ya.

Ireland 57 (2-12-9) Australia 35 (1-7-8)

Although it ultimately lacks the courage of its twisted convictions, ‘Prisoners’ is a provocative thriller about a father who takes justice into his own hands when his little girl is abducted at Thanksgiving.

The proud, beaming smiles of the Franklin family yesterday hid the painful reality of a terrible tragedy.

It's the most eagerly-awaited game release of 2013.

Based on the private journals of Margaret Lynch Suckley, a distant relative of Franklin D Roosevelt, Roger Michell’s misfiring comedy recalls an important meeting between America and Britain on the eve of the Second World War.

Routinely described as every parents’ nightmare, there is nothing to instil fear in working parents like their children coming to harm at the hands of a minder, au pair or nanny.

Aretha Franklin has defended Beyoncé amid reports she lip-synced the American national anthem at Barack Obama's inauguration on Monday.

WHAT David Gray called his “better sources of information” than American intelligence came from another world.

Anti-abortion campaigners have hit out at the opening of the North’s first abortion clinic.

With Arctic ice melting at a faster rate than ever before, raising sea levels and causing severe weather, action is needed before it’s too late, reports Stefan Rahmstorf

Concerns that women who donate blood regularly are becoming iron-deficient has prompted the blood bank to look at curtailing the number of donations they make each year.

Shadow Dancer ***

As law-abiding citizens, we rely on the police to protect us from the shadier elements of society who would intentionally do our families harm.

Michael Phelps won the 17th Olympic gold medal of his career, and his 21st overall, when he produced a majestic performance in the 100m butterfly.

Michael Phelps tonight equalled the all-time record for the most Olympic medals when his silver in the 200 metres butterfly took him to 18.

Co-location must remain the top priority in deciding the site for the new National Children's Hospital, according to one of the country's top consultant cardiologists.

A senior consultant has raised concerns that the level of paediatric services in Ireland is not adequate.