Hurricane Maria has intensified into a "potentially catastrophic" category five storm as it continues on a collision course with Caribbean islands already battered by Irma.

Ireland assisted in the relocation of just one refugee classed as an “unaccompanied minor”, from Greece between June 14 and July 11 of this year.

Olympic champion Katie Taylor and Commonwealth Games silver medallist Michaela Walsh posted landslide last-32 victories at the AIBA World Women’s Elite Championships in Jeju, South Korea yesterday.

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A potential hurricane is posing a threat to next week’s Republican National Convention in Florida, which culminates in the nomination of Mitt Romney for presidential candidate.

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and other leaders in the left-leaning ALBA bloc have backed Argentina in its long-running dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands.

Three men have been charged with murder over an attack that killed an Irish have-a-go hero on the island of Dominica.

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.

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

The Department of Foreign Affairs has today confirmed that a man killed in the West Indies over the weekend was Irish.

FIFA have given all 25 Caribbean associations 48 hours to provide statements about the events at the meeting in Trinidad which led to Mohamed Bin Hammam being banned for life for bribery.

Jack Warner has described as “nonsense” claims by one of his close associates that he voted for Qatar instead of the United States to be hosts of the 2022 World Cup.

Cuba’s President Raul Castro declared the global climate summit in Copenhagen a failure from the start and urged left-wing Latin American leaders to devise their own plan on how to cope with climate change.

A crack at the Chester Cup could be on the cards for Gordonsville after the six-year-old gave Jim Goldie a third success in the £20,000 Musselburgh Gold Cup.

KENNETH EGAN and welterweight Roy Sheahan are safely through their respective preliminaries and now Darren Sutherland can lead them into the last 16 — just one fight away from Olympic qualification — when he takes on Andranik Hakobyan (Armenia) in what will be his first bout at the world boxing championships in Chicago today.

WITH John Joe Joyce set to get the show on the road in the early hours of today Irish time, the Irish boxing team were last night perusing what High Performance Director, Gary Keegan, described as a ‘fair’ draw for the world championships in Chicago.

Hurricane Dean barrelled across the eastern Caribbean today and took aim at Hispaniola, Jamaica and Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, with forecasters saying it could turn into a monster Category 5 storm within 72 hours.

Hurricane Dean roared through small Caribbean islands today, tearing away roofs, flooding streets and killing three people.

Hurricane Dean is heading towards Caribbean islands today with 100mph winds.

Japan and other pro-whaling nations will today try to rebound from two early defeats to win a majority at the International Whaling Commission’s annual meeting and pave the way for commercial whale hunting, which was banned 20 years ago.

WTO talks were in peril today with the EU trade chief saying they were “going backwards", and cotton, banana and sugar growing nations threatening to reject any trade deal that failed to protect their farmers.

DIGICEL, the Denis O’Brien-owned mobile phone company that serves the Caribbean region, formally completed the acquisition of seven businesses in the region that previously belonged to American mobile giant Cingular Wireless.

Caribbean officials yesterday criticised a World Trade Organisation ruling against a new EU tariff on imported bananas, saying the move could squeeze regional producers out of a market vital to their fragile economies.

A strong earthquake shook Trinidad this afternoon, officials said.

Hurricane Ivan grew into the deadliest of storms today, packing winds of 160mph as it headed straight for Jamaica and left a devastated Grenada with 20 dead.

2006 World Cup qualifiers draw:

2006 World Cup qualifiers draw:

2006 World Cup qualifiers draw:

MANY flights were cancelled yesterday as a volcano on Montserrat plunged surrounding islands in the Caribbean into a gritty haze.

CLODOVIL can be crowned Europe’s champion three-year-old colt over a mile by winning the St James’s Palace Stakes on the opening day of Royal Ascot today.

Watering has begun at Royal Ascot in preparation for next week’s five-day spectacular.

A woman claiming to be the world’s oldest person celebrated her 126th birthday over the weekend in Dominica.