A battery beneath the cockpit of the Boeing 787 forced to make an emergency landing in Japan was swollen from overheating, a safety official said today, as India joined the US and Japan in grounding the aircraft because of fire risk.

Spin the globe at the bottom of the screen and take a journey on the Rhaetian Railway through the Swiss Alps.

TOURISM Ireland has outlined a raft of plans to market Cork city around the globe.

BANK of Ireland believes that in a worst-case scenarios it will have to write off €2 billion a year in bad loans to 2011 – at best, the write-offs will total €4.5bn.

Foreign ministers from wealthy countries urged a close examination of North Korea's declaration of its nuclear programmes today to determine how close it brings the communist state to surrendering its atomic ambitions, Japan's foreign minister said.

Lisa Marie Presley has married guitarist and music producer Michael Lockwood in a ceremony in Kyoto, Japan.

Delegates from around the world worked into the final hours of a UN climate conference to produce a plan for deeper cuts after 2012 in greenhouse-gas emissions, buoyed by a last-minute message of support from former US President Bill Clinton.

Brilliant Queen Elizabeth II Stakes winner Rakti is on course to bid for two prestigious mile events in the Far East.