The body of a suspected stowaway that fell from a jet hit the ground just one metre from a man sunbathing in his back garden in south London, a neighbour has claimed.

Money managers who are reducing their bullish bets on oil are following a “dangerous” strategy, according to Goldman Sachs.

A major deal struck by the National Maritime College could signal Ireland’s arrival as world-leaders in safety training for personnel involved in the offshore gas and oil exploration sectors.

Maybe the theme of embarrassing the Government really is the way to go, writes Michael Clifford

UN human rights investigators have warned of ethnic cleansing in the Democratic Republic of Congo, documenting the recent killings of more than 250 people, including 62 children.

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.

Progress has been made but malaria remains a serious threat to the wellbeing of millions of Africans, write Julie Essiam and Joy Phumaphi. 

Thundering along the roads of Etosha National Game Reserve in northern Namibia in our rented camper van, we mow down plains tigers in their dozens, like it or not. 

Having exhausted the fruit and berry crops of their Nordic homelands, waxwings are heading southwards, writes Richard Collins.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has celebrated his 93rd birthday surrounded by thousands of supporters in a defiant show of strength after nearly four decades in power.

Seventeen people have been killed in a stampede at a football stadium in Angola, according to reports from Portuguese news agency Lusa.

Teenagers at a North Cork school brought children from Angola, Portugal, Spain, Germany and Austria to Cork City Hall to join pupils from 22 Irish second- level schools as part of the country’s largest model United Nations conference.

IT was entirely predictable but nonetheless disheartening that Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu summoned a parade of ambassadors to his apartments on Christmas Day to administer a “personal reprimand”.

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They could be used to sniff out explosives.

One of the largest yellow fever outbreaks in decades could soon spread globally, aid group Save the Children has warned as the World Health Organisation (WHO) launched one of the largest emergency vaccination campaigns ever attempted in Africa.

SABMiller, the brewer that is due to be bought by Anheuser-Busch InBev later this year, reported a decline in full-year profit as it was saddled with charges related to some African operations and costs associated with the takeover.

The winner of the Man Booker International Prize could be an anonymous author for the first time in the prize's history.

JUST as every January brings a plethora of new diets aimed at changing your life, every new Government promises a radical review of our dysfunctional health service. 

OVER the years, a squadron of able and committed politicians fled the health ministry without being able to record substantive, game-changing success or reform.

In 1984 yard worker Glenn Ford, an African-American, was wrongly tried and convicted of the armed robbery and murder of jeweller Isadore Rozeman in Louisiana.

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Opec has said it is confident that excess supply in the oil market will ease as demand picks up and supply growth slows from producers outside the group, an indication its strategy of letting prices fall, reaffirmed at a meeting last week, is working.

Albert Woodfox, the last of three high-profile Louisiana prisoners known as the “Angola Three”, and who has spent more than four decades in solitary confinement, could walk free within days after a federal judge ordered state officials to release him immediately.

The last of three high-profile prisoners known as the Angola Three could walk free within days after a US federal judge ordered state officials to release him immediately.

Minister after minister has climbed into the hot seat at the Department of Health and walked away in defeat. 

Brent crude oil traded below $60 a barrel yesterday, near five-and-a-half-year lows, as major oil producers signalled that they would maintain output despite a supply glut and faltering demand in Russia and Europe.

Burkina Faso’s veteran leader refused to resign in the face of violent protests that posed the greatest threat to his nearly three-decade rule.

The Co Sligo-based sports group that counts Real Madrid and Barcelona amongst its clients is set for a record year in 2014 and is on course to achieve €5 million in profits.

JAMES REILLY’S ultimate health service goal — at least in his own eyes — was reform, but his replacement Leo Varadkar has started with a far simpler target: realism.

The INMO says Leo Varadkar faces a difficult job as Minister for Health.

Special Correspondent Michael Clifford casts a cold eye on Enda Kenny’s Cabinet reshuffle.

Dublin has jumped 10 places in a list of the world’s costliest places to live for expats and foreign nationals.

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BROADCASTER Andy Kershaw was first contracted to write his memoirs in 1991.

In a press centre in Salvador last week, a couple of British writers announced their arrival to the tournament — heard long before they were seen, such is the way many journalists conform to stereotype.