Gunman Omar Mateen, who killed at least 50 people in a gay nightclub in Florida, was mentally unstable and had a history of using steroids, his ex-wife said.

Cork needs to become a city where ideas can be tested and nurtured and less of a city of start-up office space, according to a leading tech entrepreneur.

Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft is closing fast on an unexpectedly spotted Pluto, the most distant planetary body ever explored.

ENGLAND: A fathers’ rights campaigner has written a five-star TripAdvisor review of his accommodation after spending more than a week 55m up the Tyne Bridge.

American YouTuber Tom Made noticed something very unusual as he got up in the morning, when he looked out the window to see a massive mountain lion in the garden.

One household in Boulder will have split loyalties when Cork host Kerry tomorrow afternoon

SCOTLAND: A two-tone dress marketed as being “bang on trend” has lived up to its billing — by sparking a global debate on Twitter over what colour it is.

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Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake are planning to move to his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee.

During the week Larry Tompkins seemed to annoy a few people in Mayo with some observations about the western footballers and their quest for an All-Ireland.

Tributes have been pouring in from around the world for actor and comedian Robin Williams who passed away last night.

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A nine-year-old boy has become the youngest person in recorded history to reach the summit of Argentina’s Aconcagua mountain, which at 22,841 feet is the tallest peak in the Western and Southern hemispheres.

US authorities have called on thousands more people in the flood-ravaged city of Boulder, Colorado, to evacuate as a nearby creek began rising to dangerous levels.

There was a good reason for Shane O’Neill’s decision to politely decline an invitation in January to try his luck with the Republic of Ireland U21 side.

The son of Cork All-Ireland winner Colm O’Neill is shaping up as a possible NFL punting prospect in Colorado.

Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney dive back into campaigning on Thursday after the president put politics aside to spend three days managing the federal response to the superstorm that battered the east coast of the US.

Nasa said all was well ahead of its nail-biting mission to Mars, with its most advanced robotic rover poised to hunt for clues about past life and water on Earth’s nearest planetary neighbour.

Earth's magnetic field is about to be shaken today by the largest solar storm in five years.

A US DOG called Harbour has been recognised as having the longest ears in the canine world.

CLIMATE change has likely intensified the monsoon rains that have triggered record floods in Australia’s Queensland state, scientists said yesterday, with several months of heavy rain and storms still to come.

FORMER Ireland coach Eddie O’Sullivan still harbours a strong ambition to coach the British & Irish Lions and believes he will be in the perfect position to carry out the role in 2013.

‘I’ve never enjoyed the media spotlight,’ former Irish coach Eddie O’Sullivan insists. The US rugby coach spoke to John Riordan in New York.

A US internet security firm in Dublin is to create 50 jobs over the next two years, arising out of its decision to establish an international headquarters in Ireland.

A leading climate change scientist said today that hackers breaking into a university’s computer server and then posting documents online showed the "nasty politics of global warming".

THE suspected victim of a 1950s murder in the US has been found alive in Australia.

Caverns of liquid salty water which could provide a home for extra-terrestrial life may lie beneath the icy surface of one of Saturn’s moons, scientists believe.

THE murder of child beauty contestant JonBenet Ramsey 12 years ago will be investigated by a new police task force as a cold case.

Global warming may have made Hurricane Gustav slightly stronger and wetter, some scientists said today, but few were rushing to make a specific connection between climate change and stronger storms.

THE Olympic flame approached the final destination of its long and sometimes contentious global tour yesterday, greeted by rapturous crowds in the Chinese capital two days before it officially launches the games.

Prosecutors finally cleared JonBenet Ramsey’s parents and brother of the six-year-old beauty queen’s killing in 1996, telling the family they were “deeply sorry” for putting them under a cloud of suspicion for more than a decade.

Prosecutors announced today that new DNA tests have cleared JonBenet Ramsey’s family in the 1996 killing of the six-year-old beauty queen, finally freeing them from the “umbrella of suspicion” that has lingered for more than a decade.

A top US government scientist has performed a U-turn on climate change, saying global warming is not responsible for the recent increase in Atlantic hurricanes.

Police shot a man in a wheelchair at a hospital in the US today after a five-hour stand-off during which he claimed his oxygen tank had a detonator.

Human-caused global warming is visible in the air, water and melting ice and destined to get much worse in the future, an authoritative world report will warn.

THE former suspect in the JonBenet Ramsey killing left jail after a US judge dismissed child pornography charges against him.

The former suspect in the JonBenet Ramsey killing left jail after a US judge dismissed child pornography charges against him.

The FBI is comparing information found on computer equipment belonging to the man once suspected in the killing of former US child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey to a national child pornography database.

The DNA mismatch between John Mark Karr and evidence in the JonBenet Ramsey murder was a setback for prosecutors, but they promised to continue searching for the six-year-old beauty queen’s killer.

John Mark Karr, the suspect in the killing of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, arrived in the US after a 15-hour flight from Thailand on which he sipped champagne, dined on fried king prawns and roast duck, and exchanged what he described as “small talk” with law enforcement escorts.

A suspect in the murder of six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey left Thailand on a flight to the US today to face charges in connection with her death.

The suspect in the murder of JonBenet Ramsey arrived at Bangkok’s international airport today for a flight to the US where he will face charges in relation to the death of the six-year-old beauty queen.

An American expatriate school teacher said publicly today he was with JonBenet Ramsey when she died in what he called “an accident", a stunning admission after a decade without answers in the six-year-old’s murder.

A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD boy hiking with his family has been attacked by a mountain lion in Boulder, Colorado. The cat was later killed by a wildlife officer.