A city in western India has suffered through the country’s highest recorded temperature — a scorching 51C (123.8F).

Ireland has the highest rate of granting citizenship to foreign nationals of any country in the EU.

30 years ago next Tuesday,an Air India jumbo jet en route from Canada exploded over the West Cork coast, killing all 329 on board. Eddie Cassidy on the tragedy three nations can never forget

Eating onions, lying in the shade and crowding into rivers, Indians are doing whatever they can to stay cool amid a brutal heatwave that has killed more than 1,400 in the past month.

HAVE you heard about the latest ‘U turn’ in nutritional science? America the land of the ‘egg-white omelette’ is in quite the tizzy about it all.

US President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have announced they have made progress on nuclear cooperation and climate change.

Eight Indian women have died and 20 others are in a critical condition after having sterilisation surgery under a free government-run programme to help slow population growth.

Narendra Modi thundered to victory in India’s election, trouncing the ruling Nehru-Gandhi dynasty in a seismic political shift that gives the Hindu nationalist and his party a mandate for sweeping economic reform.

I first learned about the glories of killing aged about 5.

Disco pioneer Giorgio Moroder is to make his first ever appearance in Ireland at the Electric Picnic festival in September, it was announced today.

ENGLAND: Prime minister David Cameron warned about the danger of Twitter before he signed up to the social network and now he seems to have fallen into one of its traps.

Indian police have charged six men with murder, adding to accusations that they beat and gang-raped a woman on a New Delhi bus two weeks ago in a case that shocked the country.

An Indian woman who was gang-raped and beaten on a bus in New Delhi died at a Singapore hospital, after her ordeal galvanised Indians to demand greater protection for women from sexual violence that impacts thousands of them every day.

Twenty-two hostages held captive for nearly three years by Somali pirates have been rescued by troops who raided a hijacked ship.

Indigenous Colombians who say they are fed up with being in the crossfire of the country’s long-running conflict forcibly removed soldiers from a strategic hilltop, at least temporarily.

Stephen Rea plays a detective who dreams of arresting Butch Cassidy in the atmospheric western, Blackthorn, says Pádraic Killeen

Mexico telecoms czar Carlos Slim topped the Forbes annual world’s richest list, holding the edge over Microsoft’s Bill Gates who continued to give away billions to charity.

A rescue team is trying to reach 13 divers trapped underwater after their support ship sank two days ago in the Persian Gulf, an Iranian official said.

A top ruling party politician in India has warned lawmakers not to bypass the country’s constitution as they seek to resolve an impasse with a high-profile hunger striker who has demanded that they pass an anti-corruption bill.

MORE than half of Irish, US and British borrowers are pessimistic about their economic outlook and personal finances, while Indians, Canadians and Australians are most upbeat, according to a survey by lenders’ mortgage insurer Genworth Financial Inc.

India’s security forces routinely gun down cattle smugglers and other civilians crossing the border with Bangladesh despite little evidence of any crime, human rights campaigners said today.

THE film and television industry is set to bring €200 million into the nation’s coffers this year Minister Mary Hanafin said yesterday.

ONE of the great myths of the more romantic wing of environmental movement has been that indigenous peoples always treat the environment better than we do. White man bad, red man “green”, as you might say.

The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of Little Bighorn

Investigators have recovered the digital flight data recorder of the Air India flight which crashed and killed 158 people in southern India over the weekend, police said today.

India’s civil aviation minister said today that human error might have caused the crash of an Air India Boeing 737-800 plane that killed 158 people over the weekend.

A Pakistani man was convicted today of gunning down dozens of people during the November 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai.

THE space shuttle Endeavour touched down in Florida early on Monday morning after a successful two-week mission to the international space station.

Police noticed a high crime rate against Indians in Australia’s second largest city even before a public furore erupted over the issue and created tensions between Australia and India, a senior official said.

AS the Taoiseach prepares to leave for Copenhagen, we are told there are only a few hours left in which to save the planet. For all that is at stake though — entire nations vanishing and millions losing their homes to rising seas — I suspect the read-out from the conference-of-all-conferences will be rather less intently followed than, say, last week’s budget or even the X Factor result, come to think of it.

India is facing its worst drought in nearly 40 years because of a once-in-a-generation shortfall in summer rains, weather experts warned today.

Mapuche Indians have vowed to keep seizing land in southern Chile despite the death of an activist who resisted an eviction by riot police.

LIES, damn lies and statistics have long been regarded as the great falsities, but one might also add bureaucrats distorting the national interest in their own personal interest. There was some surprise this week that the Government published the report of An Bord Snip Nua.

Amazon Indians who have been blocking roads, waterways and a state oil pipeline since April are declaring an “insurgency” against Peru’s government for refusing to repeal laws that protesters say make it easier for foreign companies to take their lands.

SOMETIMES breaking into laughter, the man accused of being the lone surviving gunman in last year’s Mumbai attacks told an Indian court yesterday that he was from Pakistan and wanted legal assistance, officials said.

FEW Irish rugby players have matured with quite the same speed as Luke Fitzgerald.

Mumbai police say an unexploded hand grenade has been found outside a hospital that was the scene of an attack during last week’s siege on the city.

The Mumbai massacre sparked fears today of a surge in violence between Pakistan and India, after India said the sole surviving gunman, now in custody, was from its nuclear-armed neighbour.

FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan was just whistling past the Republican plot in Glasnevin on his way to the Dáil chamber yesterday afternoon.

But taking pride in the sheer size of your country is increasingly anachronistic.

EUROPE was today counting the cost of the failure of the WTO Doha round against a background of growing concern over the global economy.