Czech: A Prague drinker who could not pay his bar bill left his clothes at the pub as collateral as he headed off naked to get cash, Czech police said.

Irish Olympic boxer Michael Conlan shows us around his Renault Kadjar

Pre-summer escapes are currently available at Castlemartyr Resort. 

 

Kanye West announced his intention to run for the White House at this week’s VMA awards,

More than one in two people have a ‘bucket list’ — places they want to see and things they want to do before they die, a survey reveals.

With its thumb raised skyward and a grin on its digital face, the robotic creation of two researchers in Canada is hitchhiking across the US.

New Horizons, the fastest spacecraft ever flown, made history yesterday as it shot past Pluto at more than 48,280kph, taking pictures and collecting scientific data.

Daredevil performer Nik Wallenda has successfully completed a walk across the rim of the 400ft (120-metre) Orlando Eye observation wheel in Florida.

I didn’t mind indulging my boyfriend’s fantasies at first because they were not extreme and they were something we kept between the two of us

Google Street View has gone to many places before - including quite possibly the street where you grew up and the far reaches of the Grand Canyon. And now, they've scaled Mount Everest.

USA: A naked man broke into two homes, drank booze and used a hot tub at one of them, police in Oregon said.

Myriad forms of geoengineering — harnessing Earth’s natural systems for planet-wide change — are being investigated by scientists, trying to utilise ants and volcanic eruptions, writes Erin Biba

This little boy has a very special wish list.

You may not know who Nik Wallenda is, but after seeing this you won’t envy his day job.

Imagine swimming among deadly sharks without worrying about your limbs getting chopped off? Or get as close as you possibly can to colourful jacks, or stingrays and dolphins, without having to dive 40 metres into the deep blue sea?

Authorities are looking into a viral internet video that shows a man kicking a squirrel off what appears to be the edge of the Grand Canyon.

Acclaimed American sportswriter Steve Rushin has been to the North and South Poles and most places in between. However, his love of the written word remains undimmed

Victoria Beckham celebrated her 40th birthday by hiking the Grand Canyon this week.

Here's our guide to the best TV to watch tonight.

Space enthusiasts keen to explore the skies but deterred by the hefty price tag will soon be able to board a rocket for just a fraction of the cost.

The data used to support the claim that US multinationals operating in Ireland pay an effective tax rate of 2.2% is flawed, according to a leading economist.

Size: 111 (1,200 sq ft)

Politicians on both sides of the US congressional stalemate have been summoned for talks with president Barack Obama as the partial government shutdown showed little sign of a breakthrough.

WOW. It’s a small word with a big impact, and one used unsparingly in Vegas.

Teenage sensation Connor King took Cork by storm last night, landing a spectacular four-timer.

Nik Wallenda’s hope of tightrope walking between New York’s most famous skyscrapers is not going to happen, the city’s top police officer has said.

Nik Wallenda’s hope of tightrope walking between New York’s most famous skyscrapers is not going to happen, the city’s top police officer has said.

American daredevil Nik Wallenda has become the first man to cross a Grand Canyon-area gorge on a tightrope, completing his latest record-breaking feat in under 23 minutes.

A tightrope daredevil has completed a walk that took him quarter of a mile over the Little Colorado River Gorge in north-eastern Arizona.

AROUND the time my secretary threw my marijuana plant out the window was the period when I was expert on the Seanad.

They came last in 2007, but a new album marks 24 wonderful years on the road, says Siobhán Cronin

MONTENEGRO, roughly the size of Northern Ireland gained independence in 2006 and confronted a readymade identity crisis. Few people actually knew where it was, apart from a hazy notion that this obscure place was hidden somewhere within the former Yugoslavia.

Concrete rubble litters streets lined with shuttered shops and dark windows. A collapsed roof juts from the ground. A ship sits stranded on a stretch of dirt flattened when the tsunami roared across the coastline. And no person in sight.

The trailers and posters for Anne Fletcher’s haphazard road movie are unequivocal.

I AM on one corner of the road, he’s across the way.

SATURDAY

Internet giant Google has taken its all-seeing eyes – mounted for the first time on a backpack - into the Grand Canyon, to show the US attraction’s most popular hiking trails.

Internet giant Google has taken its all-seeing eyes – mounted for the first time on a backpack -into the Grand Canyon, to show the US attraction’s most popular hiking trails.

Susan Boyle is "ecstatic" about performing with Donny Osmond.

A schoolteacher has told a judge she almost doubled the mortgage on her home and gave her father €240,000 for a building site he never transferred into her name or that of her husband.