International intervention in a country’s affairs almost always ends in conquest or civil war.

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one,” wrote Voltaire.

Rory McIlroy will be judged by his major wins but some victories are more significant than others and Monday’s comeback triumph in the Deutsche Bank Championship in Boston may well go down as a watershed in the Co Down man’s career.

With a grandfather who became the world's first billionaire, David Rockefeller has seen it all and has more ahead of him, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

Misao Ohkawa, a Japanese woman believed to be the world’s oldest person, turned 116 and celebrated by tucking into a white cake decorated with strawberries and candles.