A REPORT slipped out into the ether of a holiday weekend, last Friday, without fanfare, but whose impact in the long-term will be second only to Brexit, writes Gerard Howlin.

Smog has enveloped much of Pakistan and India, causing road accidents and respiratory problems.

Diageo, the maker of Johnnie Walker whisky and Smirnoff vodka, forecast stronger sales and profit growth in the second half of its financial year after a first half affected by negative factors in China and India and higher spending.

Nineteen people have drowned after a boat crowded with construction workers capsized in the Yamuna River in northern India and a search is under way for missing passengers, police said.

The moorhens and coots, of lakes and ponds, are easy to tell apart. Waterhens have bright red bills with yellow tips, and some white on their tail feathers, writes Richard Collins. 

At least two people were killed when part of a huge mountain of rubbish came crashing down at a landfill in the Indian capital New Delhi, police have said.

Death continues to haunt a government hospital in north India that came under fire earlier this month after dozens of babies died within two days.

Forty years after the launch of the Voyager probes, their mission is winding down - and with it, the careers of the aging engineers who steer them across the universe, writes Kim Tingley

Valerie O’Connor goes to the opening of a new cookery school at the East Clare Community Co-Op in Scariff, where she discovers a vibrant and enterprising community spirit that makes her enthusiastic for similar ventures throughout the country

Newcastle United owner and Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley talked beer, football and Indian restaurants as he completed his evidence at a High Court trial after being sued by a finance expert.

Andy Lee returned to the ring with a whisper more so than a bang following a 15-month absence.

A truck loaded with sand has collided with a school bus, killing at least 24 young children in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Irish scientists have made a major breakthrough in treating black fever — the second most deadly parasitic disease after malaria.

They paid €20m to be ringside in Cardiff yesterday for the collision of Europe’s only two unbeaten contenders and the rewriting of one family’s tragic World Cup story.

Peter Dowdall is truly taken with a dynamic, exotic small garden that puts the lie to bland suburban plots.

Here's a few tips on what to watch tonight on TV.

I am puzzled that there will be no public marking of VJ Day 70 in the Republic on the weekend of August 15. 

According to the Old Testament, a talking serpent led Adam and Eve astray, with dire consequences for us all, writes Richard Collins

International taxi-service Uber has been banned in the Indian capital New Delhi after a businesswoman alleged she was raped by one of its drivers.

A 26-year-old Indian man who was cured of Ebola in Liberia has been placed in isolation at the New Delhi airport after traces of the virus were found in his semen, India’s Health Ministry says.

Police have launched a “homicide investigation” after 35 suspected immigrants were found in a shipping container at the Port of Tilbury in Essex, England.

Police have used water cannons to disperse hundreds of women protesting against a rise in violence against women in the Indian state where two teenagers were gang-raped and later found hanging from a tree.

Police say forestry officials and police armed with tranquiliser darts are searching for a leopard that has injured six people in a northern Indian city.

A leopard sparked panic in a north Indian city when it strayed inside a hospital, a cinema and an apartment block before evading captors, an official said.

A Danish tourist has been gang-raped near a popular central shopping area in the Indian capital after she lost her way and asked for directions back to her hotel.

A crude bomb killed two people at a busy bus stop a day after another explosion injured five people in the same north-east Indian city.

A bus has crashed into a highway barrier in southern India and erupted in flames, killing 42 passengers – many of them burned alive in the inferno, officials said.

Mass evacuations have spared India the widespread deaths many had feared from a powerful cyclone that roared ashore over the weekend, officials have said.

An immense, powerful cyclone that lashed the Indian coast, forcing 500,000 people to evacuate and causing widespread damage.

The strongest cyclone to threaten India in more than a decade is approaching its east coast as authorities drove tens of thousands of villagers from their coastal homes to government shelters inland.

Rescuers are struggling to help thousands of people injured and left homeless after their houses collapsed in a massive earthquake in south-western Pakistan, as the death toll rose overnight to 210, officials said.

An Indian court has convicted four men over the gang rape of a woman on a bus in New Delhi last December.

There is outrage in India after a teenager was jailed for three years for his part in the brutal gang rape and murder of a woman in New Dehli.

A young woman photojournalist has been gang raped while her male colleague was tied up and beaten in India’s business hub of Mumbai, police said.

China and Russia kicked off their largest-ever joint naval drills today in the Sea of Japan.