A US nurse who was quarantined after working in West Africa with Ebola patients is being released, officials said.

Residents have been urged to remain calm after a New York doctor, who had recently travelled to Guinea, tested positive for Ebola.

A doctor who returned to New York after treating Ebola patients in west Africa has tested positive for the virus - the first confirmed case in the city and America's fourth.

WHOOPS! BUNGLED BID TO TOW COP CAR

An Irish woman who survived close shaves with three New York subway trains after falling onto tracks is a "very lucky girl", according to an Irish rescue paramedic who attended the scene.

An Irish immigrant had a miracle escape in New York after being run over by a subway train three times — and living to tell the tale.

THE RETURN of the Wine Geese tastings as part of The Gathering have been the highlight of the wine year and Cork has been particularly lucky as almost all the tastings have been in the real capital.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are renting a luxury mansion in Australia for €27,770 a week.

A brave buyer prepared for a challenge will love Carrig House, Tommy Barker reports

German President Christian Wulff has announced his resignation in a scandal over favours he allegedly received before becoming head of state.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called off a trip to Italy as signs increase that president Christian Wulff will resign amid a scandal over favours he allegedly received before becoming head of state.

Pope Benedict XVI has begun the first state visit to his German homeland, seeking to stem the tide of Catholics leaving the church while acknowledging the damage caused by the clerical sex abuse scandal.

A RETIRED parish priest from Mallow was put on trial yesterday accused of indecently assaulting a teenage girl by kissing her on the lips and fondling her breasts.

TWO to choose from at Cork’s Bellevue Lawn, Frankfield, where a pair of semi-detached houses in-a-row are for sale — and there’s only €1,000 between the two.

German President Horst Koehler resigned today in a surprise move after being criticised for reportedly linking military deployments abroad with the country’s economic interests – creating a new headache for Chancellor Angela Merkel.

GERMAN President Horst Koehler yesterday resigned in a surprise move after reportedly linking military deployments abroad with the country’s economic interests – creating a new headache for Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Courtney Love is terrified of making the move to New York City - because she has no idea where to live.

Revenue investigations into tax dodging netted €147m for the Exchequer in the first three months of the year with the name-and-shame list topped by a publican.

OFFICIALDOM always likes to speak warmly of the “family of football”, though the equally popular designation of “stakeholders” tends to bespeak an altogether more revealingly bureaucratic view of the game’s footsoldiers on the part of the universal blazer.

“A BRISK walk from the city centre” is how Andrew Moore describes the setting of Inisbeag, a bit of a market rarity in Cork’s Bellevue Park.

CLOSURE of three level crossings and their replacement with a large bridge are planned by Iarnród Eireann under the company’s proposed €139 million new rail network for Cork.

A hacker broke into an American wireless carrier network over at least seven months and read emails and personal computer files of hundreds of customers - including the Secret Service agent investigating him.

MICROSOFT CORP chief executive officer Steve Ballmer and general counsel Brad Smith held talks with the European Commission yesterday in an effort to settle row over the world’s largest software maker allegedly abusing the dominance of Windows to stifle competition.

CONGRATULATIONS to the Irish Examiner for the special supplement on property (Monday, January 26).

The father of a four-year-old boy missing since January was charged with murder today.

FOR about 20 years we have witnessed the rebuilding and regeneration of the centres of our major cities and towns through tax incentives.

A heavily-armed man allegedly shot three people and tried to set patrons at a Manhattan bar on fire before being wounded by officers and arrested in what police said was a racially-motivated attack.

Mayor Rudolph Giuliani Saturday warned that some of the bodies of the 4,972 missing in the World Trade Center terrorist attack might never be found and announced a massive DNA matching program to help identify those that are recovered.