Pfizer is buying Mylan in an all-stock deal and combining the $10bn generic pharmaceutical company with its own off-patent branded and generic business.

The 25 candidates for the party’s presidential nomination have been scoring points off one another, but beating Donald Trump will be a tougher task, says Elizabeth Drew,

Up to 900 leading wind energy scientists and engineers from 38 countries are to visit Cork this week for the four-day Wind Energy Science Conference, which began on Monday.

Embattled pizza chain Papa John’s International said its founder John Schnatter will resign from the board, bringing to a close months of tensions in the management ranks.

Conall Harvey may be the most inspiring eight-year-old you ever meet with a football.

Porn star Stormy Daniels believes she is now free to discuss her alleged sexual encounter with US President Donald Trump, her manager has told The Associated Press.

Bryan Cranston is recalling the first time he saw the caskets lying in state and draped in American flags while on set for his latest film, writes Georgia Humphreys.

A massive winter storm, dubbed a bomb cyclone, swept from the US East Coast on Thursday, dumping snow along the coast and bringing strong winds that will usher in possibly record-breaking cold.

The new US corporate tax regime which is set to be implemented on January 1 will heighten the “tug of love” between Brussels and Washington over the €13bn in back taxes Apple owes Ireland, a leading tax expert has predicted.

A convicted sex offender accused of murdering two young sisters who disappeared from a Maryland shopping centre is expected to plead guilty to the crime that has haunted the area for more than 40 years.

Fifteen US states and the District of Columbia have filed a lawsuit in New York challenging President Donald Trump's plan to end a programme protecting young immigrants from deportation.

Two members of the US Senate Judiciary Committee have moved to protect special counsel Robert Mueller from being fired by president Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump had a second, previously undisclosed conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Germany earlier this month.

Japan’s Takata, at the centre of the auto industry’s biggest-ever product recall, filed for bankruptcy protection in the US and Japan, and said it had agreed to be largely acquired for $1.6bn (€1.42bn) by the Chinese-owned US-based Key Safety Systems (KSS).

The US Supreme Court tightened rules for where patent lawsuits can be filed in a decision that may make it harder for so-called patent “trolls” to launch sometimes dodgy patent cases in friendly courts, a major irritant for high-tech giants like Apple and Alphabet’s Google.

The world's second-largest credit ratings agency has agreed to pay nearly $864m to settle US government and state claims that it gave inflated assessments to risky mortgage investments in the years leading up to the financial crisis.

The Dow Jones industrial average missed the 20,000 mark by a fraction of a point on Friday as US stock indexes rose after the government said wages jumped in December, but two other major indexes set records.

Donald Trump has said he will "totally accept" the result of the US presidential election "if I win".

Switzerland: It was built to help uncover the building blocks of our universe — but scientists have found that Cern’s Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator can write beautiful music too.

Donald Trump rolled up victories in five more states, amassing a north-eastern sweep that gives the Republican front-runner important momentum in his push for the presidential nomination even if his pathway has little room for error.

Donald Trump has hit out at a collaboration between Ted Cruz and John Kasich aimed at unifying the anti-Trump vote in some remaining primaries.

Donald Trump's Republican rivals have announced shock plans to co-ordinate primary strategies in upcoming states to deprive the front-runner of the delegates he needs to win the party nomination.

Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton scored sweeping victories in nominating contests in their home state of New York, and immediately cited those wins to argue that they are all but unstoppable as their respective parties’ presidential nominees.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has branded The Boston Globe "stupid" and "worthless" in response to a satirical front page printed by the newspaper which lampoons the notion of a Trump presidency.

Kyran Fitzgerald tracks the rise and rise of a trillion-dollar global industry designed to avoid taxes, protect the wealth, and much worse.

A blizzard with hurricane-force winds brought much of the US East Coast to a standstill today, dumping as much as three feet of snow, stranding tens of thousands of travellers and shutting down Washington and New York City.

USA: Maya Donnelly awoke to what sounded like thunder in the early hours of the morning, but dismissed it as a typical monsoon storm and went back to sleep.

ENGLAND: A Church of England vicar was named ‘funeral celebrant of the year’ at the Good Funeral Awards.

Bill Schneider thinks that Donald Trump needs to annex the Republican party to win

We’re in the midst of a “dating apocalypse,” if one is to believe a recent article by Vanity Fair journalist Nancy Jo Sales, a terrible time in which apps like Tinder have disrupted the basic nature of human courtship and turned us all into sex-crazed commitment-phobes.

The heartbroken family of murdered student nurse Karen Buckley have spoken of their deep gratitude for the huge outpouring of sympathy; Couples who have married in Gougane Barra, Co Cork, are being asked to search their wedding photos to help recover a stolen religious relic and Man Utd fans are excited by Hugo Lloris' comments. Just some of the latest and most read stories on irishexaminer.com.

Politicians, military leaders and celebrities from across the US have paid farewell to former Delaware attorney general Beau Biden, whose death at age 46 opened yet another chapter of grief for his father, vice president Joe Biden.

Beau Biden, who followed his father, US vice president Joe Biden, into politics has died of brain cancer at the age of 46, less than two years after he was diagnosed.

US officials are investigating after the Pentagon mistakenly shipped live anthrax spores to government and commercial laboratories in as many as nine states, as well as one overseas.

The first of the victims of the Philadelphia railway crash has been laid to rest as investigators continue to probe why the train was travelling faster than 100mph.

No criminal charges will be filed against suspended Nascar driver Kurt Busch in a domestic abuse case involving his former girlfriend, who he claimed is a trained assassin, prosecutors in Delaware said.

The thing about impromptu moments in politics is that often they work, sometimes they fall flat, but occasionally they turn out downright awkward. Vice president Joe Biden learned that the hard way — twice.

He dances like no one's watching. Except the camera.

We should all take some inspiration from this police officer in the US letting loose to Taylor Swift in a police car and dance like no one is watching.