We’re used to borrowing books from a library but what if you could borrow tools or kitchen equipments as you need them? Elizabeth O’Neill looks at a community project in London where this is happening.

A woman who prosecutors say lived with her dead baby girl’s body for three months was charged with murder.

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Three full months remain of Liam O’Neill’s GAA presidency.

US forecasters have warned of the threat of floods after a massive seven feet of snow fell in the Buffalo area of western New York state, killing at least 12 people.

A deadly snowfall that crippled a US state is finally expected to stop – but people now face the threat of massive flooding as temperatures rise through the weekend.

New York has declared a state of emergency after five people died when severe blizzards hit the state.

South African group to sue over giraffe bridge collision death

The recession and his degree arrived more or less simultaneously, so he went overseas for a job, landing in Wales. He was going to be part of a new wave of diaspora, connected by Skype but spun loose and lost to us, despite that.

There was a great old buzz in New York’s GAA circles a couple of weeks back when the two Féile teams performed so admirably in the west of Ireland and now the countdown to the Continental Youth Championships can really begin.

V Stiviano, the woman whom Donald Sterling was talking to when he made racist remarks, is "very saddened" by his lifetime NBA ban, and she didn’t release the recording of their conversation, her lawyer said.

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The message that black cards are not worth picking up is getting through to teams, according to GAA president Liam O’Neill.

Ella wears what she wants, when she wants and believes you can never be overdressed.

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The Wanted have cancelled all of their European tour dates for next year.

GAA president Liam O’Neill has outlined why he believes the number of those participating in Gaelic games outside Ireland can dwarf those playing in the country within the next 20 years.

‘Artificial Moon’ is a spectacular lighting installation built from a thousand energy-efficient fluorescent bulbs.

Since 1959, the seemingly impossible task of deciding a North American senior football champion has challenged the overseers of the GAA across the US and Canada.

Irish-Americans, like the rest of the US electorate, will be concerned with jobs and the economy, writes Gary Murphy

TO WRITE about Harvey Weinstein is to face, first, the history of past brutalities.

The New York Police Department monitored Muslim students at universities far beyond the city limits, including the elite Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, it has emerged.

MITT Romney, the frontrunner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, is promising Americans deep spending cuts, smaller government, trade penalties on China, a new Federal Reserve chairman and sweeping deregulation.

Hundreds of gay couples recited vows in emotion-choked voices and triumphantly hoisted their long-awaited marriage certificates as New York became the sixth and largest state to recognise same-sex weddings.

A US army veteran who lost his legs while deployed in Iraq was killed after being thrown from a rollercoaster at a theme park in upstate New York.

A husband who launched a US Muslim TV network has been jailed for 25 years for beheading his wife after she tried to divorce him.

A FAMILY in New York may have had an unfinished €300 million (€216m) Michelangelo painting hanging on their living room wall for a year.

A 90-YEAR-OLD man was jailed for 17 years yesterday for battering his wife of 67 years to death with a hammer in the US.

A 90-year-old was jailed for 17 years today for battering his wife of 67 years to death with a hammer in the US.

THE New York man suing over claims that he owns 84% of Facebook Inc has a copy of a $3,000 (€3,638) cashier’s cheque that may support his contract claim against the company and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg.

Eight people leaving a party at a US restaurant were shot, four of them fatally, including a man returning to his hometown to celebrate his first wedding anniversary, police said.

A shooting outside a restaurant today left four people dead and four wounded, police in the United States said.

A 90-year-old man today admitted killing his wife of 67 years with a hammer during an argument but offered no explanation.

A GUSHING admirer left Barack Obama red-faced and at a loss for words, telling the president during a surprise stop at a New York restaurant that he was a “hottie”.

M&T BANK, the US bank in which AIB holds a near 23% stake, has reported a 40% year-on-year increase in third quarter net profits but has still seen a like-for-like fall of 46% in profit for the year to date.

A new oil find in Uganda by Tullow Oil has "the potential to be the largest oil field in the basin to date", according to the company.

SHARES in US-based M&T Bank Corp – 22.64% owned by AIB – are set to jump, accordingto the latest edition of Barron’s.

BILLY Joel and Elton John have postponed a second New York state concert on their top-grossing tour after Joel fell ill with flu-like symptoms.

Billy Joel and Elton John have postponed a second New York state concert on their top-grossing tour after Joel fell ill with flu-like symptoms.

THE founder of a Muslim-American television channel yesterday pleaded not guilty to murdering his wife by beheading her.

US investigators have located key parts that might help reveal the pilot’s efforts to save a plane that crashed into a house, killing all 49 people on board and one person on the ground.