A British woman whose partner is stranded on a hurricane-hit Caribbean island said he carries a knife for protection as "everyone's turned feral".

Hurricane Jose has been upgraded to a category 3 hurricane, and it is heading for the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean.

Analysts are pouring over market charts of the Cuban missile crisis in the early 1960s and the war of words over North Korea to assess whether investors’ fright will calm any time soon.

From The Angelus to our relationship with the cupla focail, we are a unique nation, writes Damian Corless.

If Apple wasn’t the most profitable company in the world, it is likely its tax arrangements would have attracted little attention, writes Seamus Coffey.

Marketing and taxes are among the biggest challenges facing Irish start-ups, whether they are based here or abroad, the Global Irish Economic Forum heard yesterday.

Her book Yoga Girl is a new York Times bestseller and she has more than a million followers on social media — Rachel Brathen explains to Clodagh Finn how therapeutic meditation and yoga turned her life around.

US president Barack Obama and Cuban president Raul Castro have talked by telephone about restoring diplomatic ties and will meet informally at a summit this weekend as they seek to set aside decades of hostility between two Cold War enemies.

He is not happy!

Jamaica’s Cabinet has approved new laws to decriminalise possession of small amounts of pot and pave the way for a legal medical marijuana industry on the Caribbean island.

A first class British Airways passenger was so angry at the hygiene standards on his flight that he decided to post a video to YouTube highlighting the issue.

Cheryl Cole's marriage has reportedly not yet been made official.

Former monk Ray Cockrum from Knoxville won just over €191 million in the Tennessee Lottery - and most of it will be going to charity.

The UK's Duchess of Cambridge is at the centre of fresh controversy over her privacy after a German newspaper published a photograph showing her bottom.

A woman wants answers after discovering the wrong body in a coffin that should have contained her mother, who died unexpectedly while on holiday in St Maarten.

At the beginning of 1983, Irish ambassador Tadgh O’Sullivan believed it was going to be a decisive year for US President Ronald Reagan whose competency was being severely questioned both on the ideological and economic fronts.

The controversy surrounding Jamaica’s anti-doping programme has intensified after the country’s most senior drug tester claimed recent positive tests could be the “tip of the iceberg”.

An Irish man has died after falling from an apartment building in New York City.

SOUTH KOREA: With a click on a smartphone, the experimental “Armadillo-T” electric car will park itself and fold nearly in half, freeing up space in crowded cities.

Actor Matt Damon and his wife Luciana Barroso are renewing their wedding vows of eight years with a lavish star-studded party on the Caribbean island of St Lucia, a former government minister says .

Rory McIlroy is set to return to Haiti next week.

The editor of the Italian magazine which published pictures of a bikini-clad Duchess of Cambridge defended his decision today saying they did not “harm” her image.

Software company founder John McAfee was yesterday hospitalised after being denied political asylum in Guatemala.

Hurricane Sandy has hit Cuba after lashing shanty towns, stranding travellers and downing power lines across Jamaica.

Jamaicans stocked up on supplies and reinforced roofs ahead of the arrival of Tropical Storm Sandy, which is expected to hit the Caribbean island as a hurricane with lashing rain and wind.

Thousands of Jamaicans have packed the Caribbean island's national arena to honour the Caribbean island's Olympians and Paralympians.

Jamaica’s prime minister has described remarks by Zimbabwe’s leader disparaging the Caribbean island’s men were “grossly unfortunate, misguided and untrue”.

Shrugging off economic hardships and high crime, people across Jamaica have proudly displayed the national colours of gold, black and green to mark the Caribbean island’s 50th anniversary of independence from Britain.

Adam Clayton expressed his “absolute astonishment” when it was discovered a €434,000 was spent by his former PA Carol Hawkins on horses and horse expenditure, a court heard.

A man who auctioned off his entire life on eBay after he was left broken-hearted has found new love and bought his own Caribbean island.

Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z have taken their daughter on her first vacation.

It was last autumn, not long after he failed to make it through the 200m heats in the World Championships in Daegu, that Paul Hession, see picture below, realised something had to change.

Texas tycoon Allen Stanford spent more than 20 years charming investors, who handed him billions of dollars they had spent their lives accumulating through hard work and saving.

Jamaica and the International Monetary Fund expect to begin negotiations in the coming weeks on a new deal as grim economic forecasts pose significant dangers for the debt-schackled Caribbean island, officials announced.

Kate Moss saw in the New Year with a party 72-hour party in Jamaica.

ROSSLARE FERRY DEAL FOR MUNSTER MATCH

Amy Winehouse's life looks set to be made into a film.

Fourteen people died when a minibus carrying mourners from a funeral plunged off a cliff into the sea on the Caribbean island of St Lucia.

Kate Moss is set to buy a new home in Jamaica.

Andrew Holness has been sworn in as Jamaica’s ninth prime minister.

Sir Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell celebrated their recent marriage with a party in New York on Friday night.

Paul McCartney and Nancy Shevell have jetted off to the Caribbean island of Mustique for their honeymoon.

A shareholder in Irish Life and Permanent has "abandoned" his legal challenge against the Government’s plans to recapitalise the bank.

Police in Dominica have arrested three suspects after an attack in which an Irish holidaymaker was killed and a US couple who own a hotel on the Caribbean island were injured.