If you needed a reminder as to why seatbelts are so important.

A two-year-old had an unbelievably lucky escape when he fell out the back of his grandfather’s van mid-traffic.

A former journalist with China’s official news agency says he has been blocked from travelling to the US to accept a Harvard University prize for a 2008 book uncovering the devastating toll of the great Chinese famine of 1958-1961.

A 34-year-old California woman has been found guilty of murdering her two-month-old daughter, who was killed after she was placed in a microwave for as long as five minutes.

China says it is investigating the head of its work safety regulator who for years allowed companies to operate without a license for dangerous chemicals, days after blasts in a port warehouse storing such material killed 114 people.

Scientists are developing crash helmets that change colour when the wearer suffers a brain injury.

Danny Willett’s impressive form carried on in the Swiss Alps as he claimed an one-shot lead on the second day of the Omega European Masters.

For many residents of China’s southern town of Yulin, the peak of summer is the perfect time to gather with family and friends, and consume copious amounts of dog meat.

Ernie Els has always been a rugby player at heart, a big and bruising heavyweight champion in a sport, golf, that doesn’t fancy itself for that weight class.

Brook Larmer goes inside the Chinese town where 20,000 students spend seven days a week studying for the biggest test of their lives

North Korea says it has test-fired a new anti-ship cruise missile, a move experts in Seoul see as an attempt to raise tensions ahead of joint military drills between the United States and South Korea.

A man has been arrested in north-eastern China, accused of cutting off the testicles of three patients in a nursing home.

US secretary of state John Kerry has said the United States and China had a frank exchange on the issue of cyberhacking during this week’s strategic and economic dialogue in Beijing.

South Korean prosecutors have detained the head of the company that owns the ferry that sank last month over an allegation of cargo overloading.

South Korea’s prime minister resigned yesterday over the government’s handling of a ferry sinking that has left more than 300 people dead or missing and led to widespread shame, fury and finger-pointing, blaming “deep-rooted evils” in society for the tragedy.

All 15 crew members involved in navigating the doomed South Korean ferry which left 302 people dead or missing after sinking, are now in custody, authorities said today.

The captain of the ferry that sank off South Korea, leaving more than 300 missing or dead, was arrested today on suspicion of negligence and abandoning people in need.

Three men and a woman have been charged with drugs offences following the discovery by gardaí of a €600,000 cannabis growhouse in an industrial estate in Cork city at the weekend.

The death toll from a horrific rampage by a knife-wielding mob at a railway station has risen to 33 as China blamed ethnic separatists for the “terrorist attack”.

A man in China survived an unsuccessful attempt to feed himself to a pair of Bengal tigers and is being treated for depression, a Chinese newspaper has reported.

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JAZZ Pharmaceut-icals just got more alluring as a takeover target after adding to its suite of medicines for rare diseases.

Famed in song around the world for its beauty, research on murkier aspects of water from Galway Bay could have benefits for cancer patients and people suffering from extreme pain.

The white exterior and spartan grey staircase of Jian Yang’s tidy house gives no hint of the shock that lies within — a pink living room floor and his collection of more than 6,000 Barbie dolls.

She was a food fan, eager for culinary discoveries.

Between 1958 and 1961, some 36 million Chinese people starved to death because of Mao’s obsessive and dishonest Great Leap Forward, finds Neil Robinson

Katie Holmes greeted well-wishers in a black leather blazer and gold beaded heels as she became the latest celebrity to take a serious stab at fashion with her Holmes & Yang preview at New York Fashion Week.

Talks between US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Chinese leaders have failed to narrow gaps on how to end the crisis in Syria and resolve Beijing's territorial disputes with its smaller neighbours over the South China Sea.

In the wake of her divorce from Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes has been a walking shop window for her own fashion line — which just so happens to be making its NY Fashion Week debut next month.

One is Yin to the other’s Yang, one is Zig, the other Zag — we’re talking about Tom Helebert and Mattie Kenney, not so much Galway manager Anthony Cunningham’s two right-hand men as one his right hand, the other his left.

Heidi Klum loves Katie Holmes' clothing line.

Four new venues and a subtle change of name have allowed this classical festival to broaden its horizons, writes Nicki ffrench Davis

A Chinese man will be sentenced next week after he was caught by gardaí raping an Irish college student in a laneway.

Yahoo has swept out embattled chief executive Scott Thompson to try to clean up a mess created by an exaggeration about his education that destroyed his credibility as he set out to turn the long-troubled internet company around.

The state banquet in his honour was more than lavish, but still Enda craved the Chinese takeaway of his dreams.

Graeme McDowell was the first player to tee off in the Accenture Match Play Championship in Tucson today – and the first player to make his exit.

Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock and three other directors will step down as the struggling company ploughs ahead with an internal overhaul, including discussions on dealing with its stakes in China’s Alibaba Group and Yahoo Japan.

Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock and three long-time board members are stepping down, fulfilling the wishes of many frustrated shareholders who believe the directors have been part of the problem that has dragged down the internet company’s revenue and stock price.

YAHOO co-founder Jerry Yang has quit the company he started in 1995, appeasing shareholders who had blasted the internet pioneer for pursuing an ineffective personal vision and impeding investment deals that could have saved the struggling company.

Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang is leaving the struggling internet company, as it tries to revive its revenue growth and win over disgruntled shareholders under a new leader.

A senior North Korean party official has dismissed concerns about Kim Jong Un's readiness to lead, saying he spent years working closely with his late father and helped him make key policy decisions on economic and military affairs.