A group of Cork students who have been campaigning to establish a national day for missing people were last night named as Young Social Innovators of the year 2012.

Food safety experts played down the risk of mad cow disease entering America's food supply, a day after a government agency detected the first new case of the disease in the US since 2006.

NEARLY one in five children with an autistic older sibling will also develop the disorder — a much higher incidence than previously thought, a study has found.

Hundreds of hotel owners, fishermen and restaurateurs feared for their livelihoods today as a giant oil slick from a wrecked rig site oozed towards America’s Gulf Coast.

BEER is a rich source of a nutrient that can help prevent weak bones – but it depends what type you drink, researcher claim.

I WELCOME the emphatic statement by the Catholic bishops that the Lisbon Treaty “does not undermine existing legal protections in Ireland for unborn children”. This is enlightening and I hope it will nail the lie propagated by Cóir.

WE had another example of the Government’s disdain for the electorate recently at the signing of the contracts for the second phase of the flood relief plan in Mallow.

AS one of the thousands who practically commutes from Britain and further afield to second homes and relatives in west Cork, using the most practical route, I am devastated by the grossly mismanaged and short-sighted decision by Swansea-Cork Ferries to halt services.

California Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, sought medical attention for a rapid heartbeat, but was back to work today after being cleared by doctors who concluded his heart was functioning normally, his office said.

THE Dublin SFC gets underway this week with tomorrow night’s double-header (Na Fianna v UCD, 6.45; Kilmacud Crokes v St Brigid’s, 8) sure to draw a large crowd to Parnell Park.

STRICT vegetarians who insist their children live by the maxim “meat is murder” are doing them permanent damage, a leading nutrition expert said yesterday.

NEW forms of HRT could provide safe treatments for postmenopausal women in the future, a team of researchers said yesterday.

The feud between California Governor Gray Davis and Arnold Schwarzenegger escalated as the governor accused the actor’s handlers of engaging in “dirty tricks” by plotting to disrupt a Davis event.

SOMETIMES countries throw money at problems rather than taking hard decisions and changing their policies.