World Cup officials have launched an investigation into an alleged fight between two players from the Italy team.

Richard Egan moved to Ireland for love, but he didn’t leave his other passion behind.

Authorities in northern Australia are searching for a crocodile suspected of killing a dementia patient who wandered away from a nursing home, police said.

New Zealand international Issac Luke and his former South Sydney team-mate Luke Keary put their hands up to play for Ireland in the 2017 World Cup.

A British backpacker was allegedly held captive in Australia and repeatedly raped in an ordeal lasting two months.

Former RTÉ DJ Gareth O’Callaghan has said he doubts convicted paedophile Eamon Cooke murdered missing schoolboy Philip Cairns.

A woman struggled in vain to drag her friend from a crocodile's jaws during a late night swim off an Australian beach.

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Richard Manning gives the Irish Examiner  a look around his Baby Austin.

Nineteen people were injured when a pick-up truck smashed into a cafe in northern Australia, sparking a fire that engulfed the building, police said.

A five-year-old boy and his seven-year-old brother were recovering in an Australian hospital after surviving with their father for 10 days in the wilderness with little food and in weather conditions that ranged from stormy to scorching.

An Australian magistrate has rejected a plea by lawyers for a woman charged with murdering eight children to hold the next hearing in a mental health court.

An Australian woman has been charged with murder over the deaths of seven of her children and her niece, whose bodies were found inside her home.

An Australian woman has been charged with murder over the deaths of seven of her children and her niece, whose bodies were found inside her home.

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the deaths of eight children in an Australian home.

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the deaths of eight children in an Australian home.

Police investigating the deaths of eight children at a house in Australia have said they are talking to a woman who is being cared for in hospital, and who is believed to be the mother of seven of the children.

Eight dead children and a woman with stab wounds have been found inside a home in Australia.

From smelly participants to a special bug-breeding farm, there’s a lot going on behind the scenes on I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here, writes Susan Griffin.

Mystery surrounds the survival of a Queensland mother who has emerged alive after 17 days lost in rugged bushland.

Bundesbank president Jens Weidmann has said the room that governments have to stimulate growth through fiscal policy is often more limited than commonly believed.

US treasury secretary Jacob Lew said the department is finishing work to limit the benefits companies gain from moving their addresses overseas even if his action won’t be enough to stop the practice known as inversion.

A British tourist has been charged with the theft of a rare pink diamond worth 250,000 Australian dollars.

Australian police searching for a stolen $200,000 (€130,560) rare pink diamond have X-rayed a British tourist suspected to have swallowed it.

Australian police searching for a stolen 200,000 Australian dollar (€131,000) rare pink diamond have X-rayed a British tourist suspected to have swallowed it.

A science student will launch a record-breaking attempt to row across the Pacific Ocean next year.

A science student will launch a record-breaking attempt to row across the Pacific Ocean next year.

A small snake found on a Qantas Boeing 747 airliner led to 370 passengers being grounded in Sydney overnight, the airline said today.

Off-field scandals continue to plague Australian mainstream sport

Oceans’ rising acid levels have emerged as one of the biggest threats to coral reefs, acting as the “osteoporosis of the sea” and threatening everything from food security to tourism and livelihoods, the head of a US scientific agency said.

The conversation did not flow easily in Colin Lane’s car on March 3.

Rescuers have plucked nearly 240 survivors from the sea off Papua New Guinea’s east coast after a ferry sank with as many as 350 people on board, officials said.

AN Australian toddler was attacked by a python which wrapped itself around his body and attempted to suffocate him, his terrified mother said, recalling his “blood-curdling scream”.

Joe Dermody visits Cairns, Brisbane and Port Douglas on an adventure holiday in Tropical North Queensland, Australia

The tail end of one of Australia’s largest cyclones triggered wild storms and flash flooding at the other end of the country, while residents at the epicentre picked through what was left of their homes.

AUSTRALIA’S biggest cyclone in a century shattered entire towns after pummelling the coast and churning across the country, terrifying locals but remarkably causing no fatalities.

One of the most powerful storms recorded in Australia pulled houses apart and snapped power poles as it ripped across already flood-sodden Queensland state, leaving authorities relieved that no one was killed.

A powerful cyclone ripped across Australia’s north-east coast, blasting apart houses, laying waste to banana crops and leaving boats lying in the streets of wind and wave-swept towns.

A MASSIVE cyclone crashed into northeastern Australia yesterday, ripping roofs from buildings and cutting power to thousands of homes, but leaving the scale of disaster unknown as officials and residents holed up while the tempest raged.

A massive cyclone was tonight battering north-eastern Australia, tearing roofs off buildings, toppling trees and cutting power to thousands.

Strong winds and driving rain began buffeting north-east Australia today as one of the country’s biggest storms arrived.

Police ordered remaining residents to get off the streets today as one of Australia’s biggest-ever storms bore down on the north-east.

Tens of thousands of Australians stockpiled food and waited in sturdy shelters today as a monster cyclone approached the north east coast with furious winds, rain and surging seas on a scale unseen in generations.