Cyclone Fani has torn through India's eastern coast as a grade 5 storm, lashing beaches with rain and winds gusting up to 200km/h and affecting weather as far away as Mount Everest as it approached the former imperial capital of Kolkata.

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

Keano could become player-manager of his club.

Donald Trump’s net worth has fallen by $100m (€90m), to $2.9bn, as his office properties aren’t bringing in as much cash as banks that loaned him money had expected.

The annual Santa Splash for The Hope Foundation took place Sunday afternoon at 1pm on Garretstown Beach. 

A retired Catholic priest said he recognised the saintliness of Mother Teresa when he met her more than 40 years ago as he joined 120,000 people in St Peter's Square at the Vatican for her canonisation.

Indian police have detained five officials of a company which was constructing an overpass that collapsed in Kolkata, killing at least 24 and injuring more than 80.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta, a nun who dedicated her life to helping the poor, will be made a saint of the Roman Catholic Church at a ceremony on September 4, Pope Francis announced.

In just over a week, Kevin O’Riordan concludes a journey he began on August 29. When he kicks over a point on All-Ireland club finals day in Croke Park he’ll have split the posts in each of the 1,616 clubs and 32 county grounds in the country.

A 6.7 magnitude earthquake has hit India’s remote north east region, killing at least six people, injuring more than 100 others and damaging buildings.

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Cork campaigner Joanne O’Riordan is among 10 young people to win awards for their outstanding achievements in categories such as personal and cultural achievement, contribution to children, environmental leadership, and medical innovation.

Anton Savage and Sheana Keane present new adult literacy series, Get the Numbers Write, on TV3 on Monday.

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A nun in her 70s was gang-raped by a group of raiders when she tried to prevent them from robbing a Christian missionary school in eastern India, police said.

Police in India have arrested three men for allegedly gang raping a Japanese research scholar and keeping her captive in a Buddhist pilgrimage centre.

SATURDAY

It’s a world away from the glitz and glamour of the Dome in Tralee last August.

The Menu is very honoured to be joining the renowned food writer Lilly Higgins, Bakestone chef/proprietor Ali Honour and Iyer’s Café chef/proprietor, Gautham Iyer, to deliver an exclusive multi-course cooking demo, one course apiece (June 27), in the Brennan’s Cookery School, in Cork, with a healthy sample of each dish for all in the audience.

Listening to various reactions about the recent RTE programme Amber has got me thinking. The country has been talking about the disappointing ending and how let down and annoyed they are at the programme, especially the ending.

Police in India say a young woman has been gang raped on the orders of a village council because she fell in love with a man from a different religion.

An Indian teenager was gang-raped in two separate attacks and then died after being set on fire, sparking protests in the eastern city of Calcutta, police said.

A colonial-era law criminalising homosexuality will remain in effect in India, a top court said, dealing a blow to gay activists who have argued for years for the chance to live openly in India’s deeply conservative society.

Cleaners flush out gold hoard in toilets

Almost 3,000 ‘recycled’ laptops have been bought at knockdown prices over the past 18 months, according to Rehab Recycle.

The 25-year-old royal footman who helped announce the birth of Prince George of Cambridge has returned home to India.

A Clare woman is to undertake 10 triathlons in 10 days to raise money for the Cork-based Hope Foundation, which helps street and slum children in Kolkata, India.

A man has been arrested over the alleged rape of an Irish woman working with an aid agency in India.

“It’s just like Slumdog Millionaire, except in the film you don’t experience the smell.”

A fire broke out at an illegal six-storey plastics market in the Indian city of Kolkata today, killing at least 18 people.

PARK STREET Cemetery in central Calcutta, or Kolkata as it is now known, is a good place to encounter the Irish who once served in the British army in India, including many who were employed as petty officials in the centuries before Indian independence.

China will become our global powerhouse, the world’s population will hit 8bn, and we’ll have grown used to biblical floods. Richard Fitzpatrick finds out how Earth will look in 12 years.

Indian police have charged six men with murder, adding to accusations that they beat and gang-raped a woman on a New Delhi bus two weeks ago in a case that shocked the country.

A businessman who began supporting a suicide prevention charity after appearing on television has been named Philanthropist of the Year today.

Becks allows us believe in immortality.

While most Leaving Cert students are stressing about college applications and upcoming exams, 17-year-old Jessica Knoblauch has been busy launching her first album.

SATURDAY

A former Mr Universe who has just turned 100 said that happiness and a life without tensions are the key to his longevity.

On behalf of everyone at GOAL, I want to express my gratitude to the Irish people for the encouragement and support they gave us during the past year, and since our foundation in 1977.