The meek are promised that they shall inherit the earth. That distracting, deferred consolation, though of ever more questionable value, may transpire. 

The UK Work and Pensions minister Penny Mordaunt has been appointed as the new International Development Secretary.

Priti Patel is thought to be on her way to Downing Street to learn her fate, after being summoned back from an official visit to Africa by Prime Minister Theresa May.

Sterling slid for a second day as the markets weighed up the potential Tory challengers to UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s leadership and warned of more “choppy” times ahead.

Hurricane Maria has intensified into a "potentially catastrophic" category five storm as it continues on a collision course with Caribbean islands already battered by Irma.

An autistic teenager who was sexually exploited in a toilet was unable to speak about the trauma, but his mother has told how she found hundreds of drawings of men that her son had labelled “paedo”.

Dentists have noticed how certain ‘healthy eating’ or weight-loss and detox trends are taking a toll on the nation’s dental health.

A middle-aged man accused of sexually exploiting a 16-year-old boy at a shopping centre toilet was found guilty of the crime, in spite of the man’s claims the boy lied and gardaí stitched him up.

A man charged with the sexual exploitation of a teenage boy at a public toilet at a shopping centre in Co Cork told gardaí, “It is very unfair to blame someone for something one has not done.”

Jackie 4/5

Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman star in the amazing true tale of an Indian boy adopted to Australia, who used Google Earth to find the family he had lost at the age of five, writes Helen Barlow

Patel began to lose his sight three years ago and following six cornea transplants he was diagnosed with keratoconus during his final year of medical school.

Meet Kika, the guide dog of former A&E doctor Amit Patel.

The “Breaking Point” anti-EU poster unveiled by Ukip’s Nigel Farage has been branded “un-British” by pro-Brexit employment minister Priti Patel.

‘More than 50 MPs’ ready to act against leader in rift over Europe

A 56-year-old man was arrested yesterday and charged with the sexual exploitation of a teenage boy at a location in Co Cork.

Q: "If you don't have a boosting budget what ways can you break through the Facebook algorithm and boost the reach of your posts?" Roland Baldwin Triskle Arts Centre

As John Madden gets ready for his trip to Schull, he tells Colette Sheridan he’s unlikely to direct a third Marigold Hotel film

Whether you want them full and furry or nice and neat, eyebrow maintenance options are manifold, says Katie Wright.

Superbugs could cost the world 10m more deaths a year and hundreds of trillions of dollars by 2050, a new report has warned.

A lovestruck graphic designer tried to kill her magistrate mother by lacing her Diet Coke with lethal poison in a murder plot inspired by TV series Breaking Bad, a court in England has heard.

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Women who walk for an hour a day can cut their chance of breast cancer by 14%, a study has found.

Indian police have launched a manhunt for men suspected in the rape and killing of three sisters, aged six to 11, in the latest case of sexual violence to grip India.

Indian police have launched a manhunt for men suspected in the rape and killing of three sisters, aged five to 11, in the latest case of sexual violence to grip India.

Love won’t necessarily tear you apart, but it will certainly inflict some serious bruising.

Laws should be changed to give migrant women suffering from domestic abuse the chance to leave their partner without endangering their right to stay in the country, the Immigrant Council said yesterday.

A leading women's activist has today called on the Irish authorities to protect immigrant women here from the threat of female genital mutilation and other forms of violence.

A York student who hacked into Facebook in the "most extensive and grave" case of social media hacking to come before a British court has been jailed for eight months.

THE premier of Australia’s Queensland state has abolished its troubled health department after one of its top executives allegedly embezzled Aus$16 million (€12.3m).

A Texas man was executed early today for killing a convenience store clerk during a shooting spree he said was retaliation for the September 11 2001 terrorist attacks.

Britain's Director of Public Prosecutions is to examine whether there is enough evidence to charge a Scotland Yard officer linked to the death of Ian Tomlinson during the G20 protests with manslaughter.

Ian Tomlinson was unlawfully killed by a Scotland Yard officer at the G20 protests, an inquest jury ruled today.

Family members of Ian Tomlinson were in tears today as an inquest jury was shown harrowing new video of the newspaper seller dying at the G20 protests.

ENGLAND and India tied one of the World Cup’s greatest matches after Andrew Strauss and Sachin Tendulkar each hit scintillating centuries in Bangalore.

A General Medical Council disciplinary panel in the UK today ruled Dr Freddy Patel, the pathologist who carried out the first autopsy on Ian Tomlinson who died at last year’s G20 protest, acted in a way that amounted to misconduct during two earlier post-mortem examinations and his fitness to practise is impaired.

THE widow of one of the 7/7 suicide bombers yesterday lost her High Court bid to overturn a decision refusing her legal aid for representation at the upcoming inquest into the deaths of 52 people in the attacks in London in 2005.

Dev Patel is proud of his big ears.