Ozone-related deaths have risen by 150% since 1990, while premature deaths cost the equivalent of 7.6% of GDP, says Shashi Tharoor.

Arundhati Roy tells Sue Leonard why it took 20 years to write her second novel after her Booker Prize win with her first. She was talking to her characters all that time she explains

Des O’Driscoll takes us through the week’s TV viewing and what needs to be on your list.

The Middle East boosted duty-free earnings at Aer Rianta International, as pre-tax profits increased 10.5% to €23.7m.

Ikea Group has laid out plans to accelerate its expansion in China and open its first store in India as the world’s largest furniture retailer seeks to boost sales by almost 50% over the next four years.

If Steven Donnelly reflects the opinion of the rest of Ireland’s Olympic boxers, the Michael O’Reilly affair has had no more impact than the punches of the Algerian he beat yesterday.

Surprise!!

If you need some cheering up, we highly recommend this video of an Irish girl arriving home from Australia - to the shock and absolute delight of her mother.

Mrs Brown’s Boys gets a one-off live special tonight at 9.20pm on RTE One.

Paddy Barnes believes fears surrounding the zika virus are overblown as the two-time Olympic medallist prepares for his third Games in Rio this summer.

The Indian-American novelist Akhil Sharma has won the International Dublin Literary Award for his second novel, Family Life. He is the 21st winner of the €100,000 prize.

Violence against women in public places has become a ‘global epidemic’, according to the ActionAid charity.

Fairly-traded clothing can be a bit muesli, but Paula Burns finds some great sustainable threads that abide by the fundamentals of fashion — beautiful things you’ll want to wear

Ireland women’s captain Isobel Joyce feels her “sloppy” side underperformed in the 93-run defeat to tournament favourites New Zealand in their ICC World Twenty20 Group A opener in Mohali.

India passed legislation lowering the age at which someone can be tried for rape and other crimes to 16, spurred into action by an uproar over the release of a minor convicted in a 2012 fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a Delhi bus.

Scores of protesters took to the streets of India’s capital to protest the release of a juvenile convicted in the fatal 2012 gang rape of a young woman aboard a moving bus.

Barry Coughlan looks at the best travel deals this week.

Police arrested two teenagers yesterday for allegedly raping a toddler in New Delhi, in the latest incident of sexual violence against a young child in the Indian capital.

ACTRESS and writer Meera Syal has set the literary bar high for herself. Her first novel Anita And Me is now a national curriculum set text, her second, Life Isn’t All Ha Ha Hee Hee, was made into a BBC drama.

Soaring temperatures have gripped parts of southern and northern India in an extreme heatwave which has killed more than 500 people and looks set to continue this week, officials said.

When Ireland face England in today’s Royal London one-day international at Malahide, the familiar face of a favourite son will be 5,000 miles away in Delhi.

Madeline Perry is Ireland’s most successful squash player. Still ranked 18 in the world, she retires from the world tour after today’s Irish Open 2015 final against Nicolette Fernandes at Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club at 3pm.

You need to enter a building. There are two doors: one says ’beautiful’ - the other reads ’average’.

There is a train in India that travels between Mumbai to Delhi, you’ve probably seen it in an old movie at some point.

A documentary about rape banned from airing in India received its US premiere at a star-studded event.

INTERNATIONAL Women’s Day will be celebrated on Sunday.

Miguel Angel Jimenez will look to get over the disappointment of not being chosen as Europe’s next Ryder Cup captain by extending his own record as the European Tour’s oldest winner in the Hero Indian Open.

US President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have announced they have made progress on nuclear cooperation and climate change.

Commonwealth boxing champion Paddy Barnes has been awarded an MBE for services to boxing and the community in Northern Ireland.

Car-sharing service Uber has come under fire on social media after appearing to endorse fare increases in central Sydney as residents were attempting to evacuate the area after a siege in a cafe.

A SpiceJet plane crashed into a stray buffalo during take-off from Surat, although no passengers or crew were hurt, the plane’s operator said yesterday.