Stand by for another golden age of sportswriting. Perhaps even newspapers can yet be saved, writes Larry Ryan.

The two countries should hold bilateral talks and air their historic grievances, or else the mistrust will deepen, says Christopher R Hill

The EU’s upcoming MiFID II rules brokerages and banks firms must soon start charging for research — and that may include the morning musings of analysts and strategists.

All players in the Middle East must value diplomacy not conflict, writes Jeffrey D Sachs

At least 13 people have been killed in an avalanche that buried five homes following heavy snowfall in the north of Pakistan.

Software giant Microsoft will continue to invest over $1bn (€937m) annually on cyber-security research and development in the coming years, a senior executive has said.

A Labour councillor has been suspended after describing “Zionist Jews” as a “disgrace to humanity” and supporting calls for Israel to be relocated to the US, becoming the party’s second elected politician in a day to face investigation.

The Labour Party in England has suspended a councillor over social media posts, including a suggestion that Israel should be relocated to the United States.

Ken Livingstone has been suspended by Labour for “bringing the party into disrepute” following an anti-Semitism row.

A Labour MP has stepped down from her position as aide to shadow chancellor John McDonnell after issuing an “unreserved” apology for a social media posting in which she appeared to endorse the relocation of Israelis to the US.

Billy O’Callaghan reads the sequel to Not Without My Daughter — My Name is Mahtob — the account of a mother and child’s escape from Ayatollah Khomeni’s Iran, back to a world of book deals and celebrity interviews.

A patient in the US has sued an anaesthetist who viciously mocked him after he was put under anaesthetic for a medical procedure.

Controversial former MP George Galloway has signalled that he is starting a legal challenge against his defeat in last week’s British general election.

An official report a year after the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has done little to solve the mystery of the missing Boeing 777, aviation experts have concluded.

Pakistani children returned to the school where Taliban gunmen killed 150 of their classmates and teachers last month, clutching their parents’ hands tightly in a poignant symbol of perseverance despite the horrors they had endured.

I unreservedly condemn acts of terrorism including those which took place in Pakistan and Australia recently. 

THIS WEEK’S Remembrance Day acknowledged the fallen of the First World War nearly a century ago but you only have to turn on the news to find out that war is still going on.

Eleven people have been arrested in Iran after allegedly sending text messages deemed insulting to the founder of the Islamic Republic, the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, an Iranian newspaper said.

In October 1983, as she sat down to write her 301st column for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Diane Shah had a dream.

Nation has more than three points on the line against Argentina

Sold at the lower end of its €4 million to €5 million price guide to a consortium, is Co Kildare’s Moyvalley hotel and golf club, with 460 acres, apartments and courtyard cottages.

It’s set in modern Pennsylvania, but there’s an Old Testament quality to the imagery of fire in Out of the Furnace (15A).

You may not know this but a legendary figure within Irish sport retired yesterday. Trent Johnston’s career in the green shirt came to a fitting end with a 122 run victory over Afghanistan in Dubai.

THE English comedian Patrick Monahan’s father is Irish and his mother is Iranian.

Tributes have been pouring in for “peerless broadcaster” David Frost who died after suffering a heart attack at the age of 74.

Britain’s most senior police officer has dismissed claims that the investigation prompted by the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal has turned into a witch hunt.

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A British woman, held in Pakistan on charges of drug smuggling, has been sent back to prison with her newborn daughter after giving birth in a hospital, a British legal group said yesterday.

Eddie Shah, Former newspaper proprietor, has been charged with raping and abusing a young girl, police said today.

COMEDIAN Shappi Khorsandi didn’t have it easy growing up.

A gang of 11 men plied girls as young as 13 with drink and drugs so they could “pass them around” and use them for sex, a court heard.

Amir Khan’s promoter claims they withdrew their appeal over last month’s controversial defeat by Lamont Peterson because they feared Wednesday’s International Boxing Federation hearing would be “one-sided” and not “fully transparent”.

Two men at the centre of the controversy surrounding Amir Khan’s loss to Lamont Peterson will not appear in front of tomorrow’s International Boxing Federation hearing.

Omid Djalili has survived being shot at while a student, and being heckled by his wife while learning his trade as a comic, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

A prominent Muslim religious leader was killed in a blast outside a mosque in Indian Kashmir today.

AFTER a string of world-shaking events America’s spies failed to predict, most recently the turmoil sweeping the Arab world, a vast project is taking shape to improve forecasting. It involves thousands of volunteers and the wisdom of crowds.

The youngest son of the late shah of Iran has been found dead in an apparent suicide at his US home.

Nepal's former crown prince was arrested today for firing a gun into the air after an argument in a restaurant.

THE death toll from massive floods in northwestern Pakistan rose to 1,100 as rescue workers struggled to save more than 27,000 people still trapped by the raging water.

Rescue workers struggled today to save more than 27,000 people still trapped by massive flooding in Pakistan’s north-west that has killed over 900 people and destroyed thousands of homes, officials said.

Fighter jets pounded militant hide-outs in north-western Pakistan today, killing 18 suspected fighters, an official said.

At least a dozen people were killed south of the Afghan capital of Kabul after US troops spotted two insurgents trying to plant bombs, an Afghan official said.

Hundreds of police in Iran have been deployed around Tehran University to prevent protests against President Ahmadinejad.