So Matt Damon gets up to some pretty interesting stuff, from gatecrashing the Hollywood party with his Oscar winning script for Good Will Hunting right the way to delivering a box office smash sci-fi comedy drama in The Martian last year.

Siberian tigers at a wildlife park in Beijing mauled a woman to death and wounded another when they stepped out of their car in an enclosure.

President Michael D. Higgins is starting a week-long state visit to China.

I always wanted to be a DJ and I became what I wanted to be. I believe in fate. If something is meant to happen, it will.

Exploding fireworks sprayed from the sails of the Sydney Opera House and the Australian city’s harbour bridge at midnight as the world ushered in a new year.

Four second-level students will be walking the Great Wall and speaking the native tongue in China over the next fortnight.

CONFIDENCE is an admirable quality in business, but could a tiny dot of a country like Ireland really sell the fruits of the land to a nation with one of the biggest land masses on earth?

PRIVATE jets carrying Pádraig Harrington and Rory McIlroy passed over the skies of the Middle East yesterday.

Barack Obama has said America's relationship with China is deepening beyond trade and economics to cover climate, security and other matters of international concern.

A recently married couple were killed in a lightning strike while climbing on a rugged section of the Great Wall of China.

The Great Wall of China is even greater than once thought.

BEING the son of a famous father can have its disadvantages, and it just may have worked against Nicolas Roche in Saturday’s Olympic road race.

ONCE-RECLUSIVE China commandeered the world stage yesterday, celebrating its first-time role as Olympic host with a stunning display of pageantry and pyrotechnics to open a Summer Games unrivalled for its mix of problems and promise.

The Beijing Olympics will open today, firing the starting gun for the world’s ultimate sporting competition.

The Olympic flame made one of its final relays today, on the eve of the Games’ opening ceremony, as torchbearers carried it along the ancient Great Wall of China.

The Olympic flame approached the final destination of its long and sometimes contentious global tour today, greeted by rapturous crowds in the Chinese capital two days before it officially launches the games.

Olivia Newton-John has recruited fellow cancer survivor Sharon Osbourne to join her on a 21-day trek of the Great Wall of China.

THE Great Wall of China, Rome’s Colosseum, India’s Taj Mahal and three architectural marvels from Latin America were among the new seven wonders of the world chosen in a global poll.

The Great Wall of China, the Colosseum in Rome and Peru’s Machu Picchu are leading contenders to be among the new seven wonders of the world, as a massive poll draws to a close.

Words of praise and partnership were exchanged by Russian President Vladimir Putin and visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao as they opened a huge trade show in Moscow.

Shops and restaurants atop the Great Wall of China are being given the shove as part of a move to restore the original appearance of the country’s best known historical site, it was reported today.

China today said it would use technology to check the length and condition of the Great Wall to find ways to better protect the country’s most famous landmark.

Two Irish tourists have died in a freak road accident in the Chinese capital, Beijing, today.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, the millionaire movie star and governor of California, made a big splash at his first event in China today – perhaps too big a splash for his security detail after dozens of photographers and fans mobbed him in the Chinese capital.

FIVE members of an Oireachtas committee have travelled to China for a 10-day trip that includes visits to many of the country's tourist attraction.

Alicia Keys, Nellie McKay and Cyndi Lauper brought modern pop music to an ancient setting, performing for thousands of Chinese fans at the foot of the Great Wall.

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) today announced that five enforcement orders were served by Environmental Health Officers (EHOs) during the month of August.

The President of Ireland was in salubrious company as she met her Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

THE World Health Organisation lifted its travel warning against Beijing yesterday, giving a clean bill of health to the capital of the nation where the SARS outbreak began.

Tributes were paid today to a young British tourist who was murdered during a visit to the Great Wall of China.