One of the world’s fastest powerboats will roar around Cork Harbour today ahead of the launch of one of the most spectacular sporting events to be staged in Ireland this year.

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Before Hillary Clinton, 34 women have tried to become US president, including a daughter of Irish parents who ran 40 years ago, and a radical feminist in the 1870s, writes Bette Browne          

SHORTLY after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian President Boris Yeltsin allowed a small number of academics to poke around in the previously secret Communist Party and KGB archives.

One of Vincent Van Gogh’s last landscapes and a Turner masterpiece thought by many to have been lost are among the highlights at art auctions this autumn.