Marketing software company HubSpot wants to create a business with “strong Dublin roots” after adding 320 new employees to its Irish workforce and moving into its new office space in the capital’s thriving Silicon Docks.

A Stradivarius that belonged to renowned violinist, Roman Totenberg, has been recovered after 35 years.

The trial of Aisling Brady McCarthy, the Irish nanny accused of murdering a baby, will take place in October, it emerged following a hearing yesterday.

Building blocks of life have been found for the first time in a distant infant star system.

A duffel bag containing human remains was found outside a US biotechnology building in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Saturday morning, and one person was later arrested in connection with the grisly discovery, authorities said.

There is some truth to the effectiveness of old wives’ tales when it comes to serious medical issues, according to findings by a team from Detroit Medical Centre.

ENGLAND: An overly-handsome waiter, a snoring girlfriend, and the sea being too blue are among some of the bizarre complaints made to hotel staff, according to a survey.

Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have asked a judge to make prosecutors turn over family-related evidence as they try to build a case that his older brother was the “main instigator” of the deadly attack.

Harvard University yesterday reopened four buildings at the heart of its centuries-old campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that had been evacuated earlier after reports that explosives had been planted on the premises.

An experiment that proved people who think they are drunk also think they are attractive, and another that showed lost dung beetles can use the Milky Way to find their way home, were among the winners at this year’s Ig Nobel awards ceremony.

An experiment that proved people who think they are drunk also think they are attractive and another that showed lost dung beetles can use the Milky Way to find their way home were among the winners at this year’s Ig Nobel awards ceremony.

THE life of a Hollywood A-lister isn’t all glitz and glamour.

The enormous leak of classified information engineered by Bradley Manning was “heedless” and “imminently dangerous to others”, a military judge has said.

An Irish nanny charged with the murder of a one-year-old child wants the charges dismissed, claiming there were serious flaws in the process that led to her indictment.

A new lawyer for the widow of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev says his client will co-operate with investigators.

Boston’s mayor does not want marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev buried in the city, an aide said.

In May of 2011, Dzhokhar A Tsarnaev, then a senior at a top high school, was awarded a $2,500 scholarship from the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to pursue higher education.

The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing were from the Russian region near Chechnya, sources have told the Associated Press, as a massive police manhunt continues for the surviving suspect.

Sources have told the Associated Press that that the Boston bomb suspects are from a Russian region near Chechnya and have lived in the US for at least one year.

An Irish nanny has been remanded in custody in the US charged with murdering a one-year-old girl she was caring for, authorities have confirmed.

Irish nanny Aisling McCarthy Brady is due back in court in the US today.

A blood-stained pillow, blanket and baby wipes were found in the bedroom of a one-year-old child who died after her Irish nanny allegedly assaulted her, according to court records.

Harrowing detail of the last few hours of Rehma Sabir’s life have emerged in a “statement of probable cause” presented at Aisling McCarthy Brady’s court appearance.

More than a year after the death of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s authorised biography of the Apple founder remains a fixture on the bestseller lists.

US President Barack Obama has launched a three-day Southeast Asia tour, hailing alliances with countries such as Thailand as cornerstones of the administration’s deeper commitment to the Asia-Pacific region.

MADELINE MILLER was brought up to love books.

Vanessa was raised in Chico, California, in a hippy community. After College she worked with homeless and foster children and loved it.

California: Apple can keep posting sales growth of more than 50% in the next two years as a mobile applications boom fuels demand for devices such as the iPad, said the chief executive of Forrester Research.

FRENCH pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis is to acquire US biotechnology firm, Genzyme, in a €20.1 billion deal which is unlikely to adversely affect the latter’s significant Irish presence.

ONE of the suspects in an alleged spy ring has confessed to US federal agents that he worked for Russia’s intelligence service, federal prosecutors said yesterday.

US President Barack Obama was scheduled to have a beer with a white police officer and an eminent black scholar at the White House last night in a bid to quell a heated national furore over racial profiling.

Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell was mildly critical last night of Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates, whose angry response to a police officer touched off a national debate on race that involved President Barack Obama.

A Harvard professor and the police officer who arrested him have agreed to meet with US President Barack Obama at the White House on Thursday.

US president Barack Obama has tried to calm the racial uproar he helped stoke by saying police “acted stupidly” in arresting his friend, black academic Henry Louis Gates.

BARACK OBAMA defended his criticism of police officers in the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr as law enforcement groups and Republicans called the president’s remarks out of place.

US President Barack Obama today stood by his assertion that police did not need to arrest a Harvard scholar who was trying to get into his own home.

A distinguished Harvard scholar is at the centre of a race row after he was arrested by police responding to a call about “two black males” breaking into his own home near the university.

JACOBS ENGINEERING — the California-based construction services giant that has offices in Dublin and Cork — has won the contract to look after the building of pharmaceutical firm Genzyme’s €130 million expansion of its existing Waterford facility.

Harry Potter author JK Rowling received an honorary degree from Harvard University on Thursday.

Billionaire investor Ron Burkle is working with a union representing workers at Dow Jones & Co to explore alternatives to Rupert Murdoch's $5bn (€3.69bn) bid for the company, which publishes The Wall Street Journal.

Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates is finally getting his Harvard degree - 32 years after he dropped out of the university on his path to becoming the world's wealthiest person.

Not quite the Oscar, but Scarlett Johansson still was all smiles about being crowned the Harvard Hasty Pudding US woman of the year.

A British man accused of murdering his American wife and baby was sent to a psychiatric hospital after prison guards found a letter to his parents reportedly saying it could be his last and giving instructions for his burial, US police said today.

America’s top soldier in Iraq said the war and the wider battle against extremists in the Middle East was the defining conflict of the generation, and one from which the United States and its allies could not afford to walk away.