Farmers, although branded by some as part of the cause of global warming, may ultimately hold the key to turning around the world’s runaway greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

There is no time to waste in tackling climate change but the world needs to be more ambitious in its targets, write Hilda Heine and Kevin Rudd.

It is gradually becoming unacceptable to pollute for free and pass the bill on to future generations. Some 40 countries are now putting a price on carbon pollution, write Catherine McKenna and Feike Sijbesma

German Chancellor Angela Merkel - a veteran of global efforts to curb climate change - has refused to set a deadline for ending her country's use of coal.

It includes works by Albrecht Duerer, Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro.

Dublin is among more than 20 European cities battling to become the new homes to two EU agencies which will leave London because of Brexit.

The Shortest History of Germany by James Hawes Old Street Publishing Review: Des Breen

The prime minister has helped Labour achieve a comeback which would force Lazarus to give a standing ovation, writes Allan Prosser.

Sinéad O’Halloran is a 22-year-old cellist from Blackrock, Cork. She is the co-founder and artistic director of the Ortús Chamber Music Festival, which is taking place in Midleton, Cork city and Cobh this weekend. She is currently based in Düsseldorf where she is studying for her Bachelor of Music.

Cities across Germany are planning to increase their security at this year's carnival celebrations, citing the continued terror threat the country faces.

In this month of commemoration and celebration it is appropriate to recognise the achievements of John Pius Boland. 

Hans-Dietrich Genscher, the long-serving German foreign minister who was one of the key architects of the country’s 1990 reunification, has died aged 89.

JOHN LE CARRÉ is David Cornwell’s penname. The world’s most famous spy thriller writer has given Adam Sisman access to his private papers and some 50 hours of interview time to write his biography. 

The heritage committee of Unesco has said the outlook for Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is poor due to threats including pollution and climate change but stopped short of listing it as “in danger”.

With Greece teetering on the brink of a eurozone exit there has never been a more pressing time to reform the EU, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

Beethoven’s life was a series of disappointments, recurring conflicts, worsening illness and increasing financial worries, but, says Eamonn Lawlor, nothing could diminish his genius    

Ryanair has predicted that as much as 30% of its customer base will be made up of business travellers within the next five years.

The great German composer’s Irish and Scottish ‘airs’ will be played at the Kilkenny Arts Festival.

A Second World War bomb has exploded during construction work in a western German town, killing one person and wounding at least eight others.

German Chancellor Helmut Kohl told then Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald it would be possible to change Irish people’s “irrational” insistence on neutrality, newly declassified files reveal.

The mountain of refrigerators, cellphones, TV sets and other electrical waste disposed of annually worldwide is forecast to grow by a third by 2017, according to a UN study released yesterday.

Hans Riegel, who made German sweet maker Haribo and its signature gummi bears a chewy hit across the globe, has died aged 90.

BACK in the Nineties I went to visit the Bundestag.

This week as our Government, already mired in the intractable abortion civil war, realised that they will have to deal with another deeply divisive moral/social issue — right-to-die legislation — two other issues that will have a far, far greater impact on humanity’s future and wellbeing flitted across the news pages without provoking the kind of Pavlovian fury abortion or euthanasia routinely generate.

Deutsche Telekom saw net profit recover to €793m in the fourth quarter as the telecoms group declared it was “on the offensive” with new investments in higher-speed networks.

Seventeen-years old Sycerika McMahon, who qualified for the Olympic Games on Tuesday, finished a creditable fifth in the final of the women’s 100 metres breaststroke at the European Swimming championships at Debrecen in Hungary

Hundreds of flights were cancelled today as workers at several German airports joined other public employees staging short-term strikes in a row over pay.

Tax metres have been introduced for German prostitutes.

DESPITE 20 years of effort, greenhouse gas emissions are going up instead of down, hitting record highs as climate negotiators gather to debate a new global warming accord.

CARBON dioxide emitted by energy use hit a record high last year, dimming prospects for limiting global warming to two degrees celsius, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said yesterday.

A GERMAN truck driver who fathered eight children with his stepdaughter and peddled her body to other men has been convicted of 162 counts of sexual abuse by a judge who called him a “pitiless egoist” and handed down a sentence that could keep the man locked away for life.

A 48-year-old German suspected of fathering at least seven children with his stepdaughter is standing trial on allegations that he abused her and two other children for more than 20 years.

News from a New Republic: Ireland in the 1950s

THE world’s third most-wanted Nazi suspect has died before he could be brought to trial in Germany.

The world’s third most-wanted Nazi suspect has died before he could be brought to trial in Germany.

FOUR women have given birth to healthy babies after having their eggs genetically screened using a technique that offers new hope to childless couples.

THE new climate change treaty under negotiation for the past two-and-a-half years begins with a brief document called A Shared Vision.

THE world’s third most wanted Nazi suspect, who allegedly participated in the murder of more than 430,000 Jews at the Belzec death camp, was involved in the entire killing process: from taking victims from trains to pushing them into gas chambers to throwing their corpses into mass graves, according to court documents.

ONE of the world’s most wanted Nazi suspects has been charged in Germany with the murder of 430,000 Jews at a concentration camp.

A new legal agreement committing the world to curb greenhouse gas emissions is unlikely to be completed before the end of 2011, two years later than originally envisaged, the United Nations' climate chief said.

An unemployed German man has been sent to a secure psychiatric unit after attacking seven women and stealing their high-heeled shoes to fuel his apparent fetish.

GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were the major figures at the Afghanistan conference in London last Thursday.