With exports to Germany, Italy and the UK, Solaris Botanicals’ western-style herbal teas are winning new customers, and it is eyeing a surprising new marketplace — China, writes Trish Dromey.

From cribs to coffee, arty greeting cards to classic fabrics — it’s all here this week in Esther N McCarthy’s shopping basket.

Some of Hollywood’s most glittering triumphs have been snatched from the slavering jaws of defeat.

Each week, Esther N McCarthy scouts around for interesting bits for your home. This week, she finds fabulous fabric and gets hot under the collar over a fire extinguisher.

Bill Moggridge, a British industrial designer who designed an early portable computer with the flip-open shape that is common today, has died in New York. He was 69.

A SERIAL killer who preyed on small African-American boys and a dad who told macabre tales of small girls who left the fridge door open – and died ...

THE victim’s of the state fishery board’s single worst tragedy are to be remembered this weekend.

A MOTHER photographed rushing towards a killer wave in a desperate bid to save her children has been found alive.

A leading Norwegian pro-Palestinian activist today claimed she infiltrated the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad as a double agent in the 1980s.

IRISH comedian Dave Allen has died at the age of 68, his agent said yesterday.

Comedian Dave Allen has died at the age of 68, his agent said today. The Irishman died in his sleep at his west London home last night.

A mother photographed rushing towards a killer wave in a desperate bid to save her children has been found alive.