Today is World Press Freedom Day, an annual event to celebrate the fundamental principles of press freedom.

In the realm of Irish distance-running, this was the best performance for many years – a two-hour, 24-minute reminder to those in Athletics Ireland of what might have been.

The type of plane involved in the Ethiopian Airlines and Lion Air crashes in the past five months has carried thousands of passengers to and from Ireland — and aviation authorities have no plans to ground 737 Max aircraft.

The loss of a young, active life is always tragic, especially if that person is a parent of young children.

Twice a year, an international team goes to the impoverished African nation to perform transformative facial surgery on social outcasts, says Tony McNamara

Paula Hynes swapped her farm and family in Cork to spend almost three weeks with the Maasai in Kenya for a show on RTÉ tonight, writes Helen O’Callaghan

Addis Ababa is a booming, cosmopolitan city in the heart of a poor, rural country, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

Pizza Hut is set to open three outlets in Ethiopia this year, becoming one of the first international restaurant chains to enter Africa’s second-most populous country.

The death toll has risen to 35 after a landslide swept through a massive rubbish dump on the outskirts of Ethiopia's capital.

ETHIOPIA will forever leave images of solitary walkers in my mind’s eye, lone men and women walking beside country roads or on paths across endless plains, miles from villages or any habitation, writes Damien Enright.

LAST week, I said I’d be writing my next column from Ethiopia, and indeed I am, writes Damien Enright.

One World Trade Center in New York City — rebuilt after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks — is to go green on St Patrick’s Day for the first time.

Irish actor Ruth Negga, who recently starred on the front of American Vogue, has landed another major magazine cover.

Scientists at the University of Texas think they know how Lucy, the famous female of prehistoric times, met her death, writes Richard Collins. 

Touching down in Dublin Airport after five “massively intense” days in one of Ethiopia’s poorest regions, Aoife Murray’s mind was made up.

New York’s World Trade Centre at Ground Zero, the Big Wheel on Place de la Concorde in Paris, and City Hall in Tel Aviv are three of the latest landmarks to join the growing list of famous international attractions that will go green this St Patrick’s Day.

More than 10m people, including an estimated third of a million newborn babies, are at risk from Ethiopia’s worst drought in half a century, Save the Children has warned.

Legendary aid worker returns from Ethiopia for a rest before renewing efforts to help some of the world’s most dispossessed people, writes Joyce Fegan

Dublin Airport has broken its previous passenger numbers in a single year, even with December traffic still to come.

A US-bound flight was forced to turn back and land at Shannon Airport this afternoon after a passenger on board fell ill.

South Sudan’s president is expected to sign a peace deal today to end a 20-month-old conflict but will list his reservations in an annex to the pact, his foreign minister said.

Passenger numbers at Dublin airport have recovered to levels not seen since before the global financial crisis. 

They look after us all year — so where do Ireland’s top hoteliers take time out? Tony Clayton-Lea talks holidays of a lifetime with Francis Brennan, Kevin Dundon and more.

Republican US presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has criticised the Iran nuclear deal as “marching the Israelis to the door of the oven”, a reference to the Holocaust.

A circus full of doctor clowns in Ethiopia is helping to bring joy to sick children, writes Maria Mocerino.

Addis Ababa is the capital city of Ethiopia and its name, in the Amharic language, means ‘new flower’. 

Travel agents experienced a 30% surge in bookings as record numbers thronged the annual Holiday World Show in Dublin.

Twenty million passengers have used Dublin Airport so far this year.

Donegal goalkeeper Paul Durcan has held his hands up for his All-Ireland football final error and admitted he simply duffed his kick-out.

President Michael D. Higgins has begun his three week visit to Africa, where he is due to visit Ethiopia, Malawi and South Africa.

President Michael D Higgins is visiting three African countries over the next week.

Authorities are having trouble figuring out how many more people are getting ebola in Liberia and Sierra Leone and where the hot spots are in those countries, harming efforts to get control of the deadly outbreak, the UN’s top ebola official in West Africa said yesterday.

They finally got wed - and we're delighted for them.

An Ethiopian man has found a rather interesting way of getting his goat from A to B.

South Sudan’s president has reached a ceasefire agreement with a rebel leader, a US official has said, after a vicious cycle of revenge killings drew international alarm.

An Ethiopian Airlines co-pilot locked the pilot out of the cockpit, hijacked the plane bound for Italy and diverted it to Geneva where he asked for asylum.

An Ethiopian Airlines co-pilot hijacked a plane bound for Rome and flew it to Switzerland, where he wanted to seek asylum, officials said today.

IT was an open secret that one of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s worst tormentors, Bosco Ntaganda, lived on Avenue des Tulipés until 2012, crossing into Rwanda now and then despite a travel ban.

Rebel forces in South Sudan must accept that “taking power by force cannot work”, the country’s foreign minister said as the two sides in a bloody conflict prepared for peace talks.

Egyptian troops have opened fire on supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi as they marched on a Republican Guard facility.