Irish students were “packed like sardines” on a balcony which collapsed in California, Dublin has moved up two places in the rankings of the most expensive locations for foreign workers, Donald Trump said he is a candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2016 US presidential election, and Chris Evans has been revealed as the new host of Top Gear. These are some of the latest and most read news stories on irishexaminer.com this morning.

A ’number of Irish’ are among five killed in a US balcony collapse; Liquidators at Clerys in Dublin have told laid-off workers there are no funds to pay redundancies; and primary education is not free, but would be for an extra €103m a year, says Fergus Finlay. Just some of the latest and most read stories on irishexaminer.com.

Adoption rights campaigners have said that allowing natural mothers a veto on contact would set back tracing rights "more than a decade".

Nearly 4,500 people attended a jobs expo in Cork yesterday which clearly defined that some Irish companies still have vacancies — although they’re mainly in the hi-tech sector.

Miley Cyrus thinks chivalry is dead.

Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora has bowed out of their current tour.

A Canadian man puts his 6ft tall and 8ft long buffalo in his car and takes him to the local pub.

IT IS Saturday evening in downtown Calgary.

THOUSANDS of skilled electricians are leaving the country with their union assisting them in finding employment in Australia and Canada.

Two mummified babies found this year in a steamer trunk from the 1930s were the children of a nurse who died 16 years ago – but the way they died may never be known.

Former US president George Bush plans to write a “what would you have done?” book about the 12 toughest decisions he made in office.

Donal Hickey on how windfarms affect nature.

IRISH founded Finavera Renewables has inked a deal to purchase a 150MW Three Hills Wind Power Project in Alberta, Canada for $3.35 million (€2.55m).

FEEDBACK from 10,000 patients will be included in a pilot GP practice review, launched yesterday.

An astrophysicist was jailed for 15 months today after being caught with 500,000 indecent internet images of children.

INVESTIGATORS are combing Canadian feed mills and rendering plants to try to pinpoint the source of infection for the BSE-infected Washington state cow.

Investigators tentatively traced the first US case of “mad cow disease” to Canada, which could help determine the scope of the outbreak and might even limit the economic damage to the country’s beef industry.

US President George Bush sparked fears he had fallen off the wagon when he was pictured apparently swigging from a beer bottle at the G8 summit of world leaders last month in Alberta, Canada.