One World Trade Center in New York City — rebuilt after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks — is to go green on St Patrick’s Day for the first time.

Mark Evans and his six-year-old son hit the British capital to see the sights and found there was a lot more for a child to experience than dinosaurs, Big Ben and a big wheel    

It’s the country’s most internationally renowned celebration, and everybody knows it. All across the world, people with itchy feet are making bucket lists — Brazil for Carnivale, India for Holi, and Ireland for St Patrick’s Day.

The homes of gladiators and country music are among the landmarks joining the global celebrations for St Patrick’s Day this year.

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Lack of access is Spike Island’s greatest impediment to becoming a major visitor attraction.

London is the selfie capital of the world, according to social media analysis.

The world’s largest big wheel attraction started turning as tourists took in a unique overview of the Las Vegas Strip, with wide skies and craggy brown mountains in the distance.

Dubai shattered the world record for the largest ever pyrotechnic display on New Year’s Eve with a show involving more than half a million fireworks, Guinness World Records said yesterday.

Laura Robson will not be rushed into deciding whether Miles Maclagan will carry on as her full-time coach.

Plans to redevelop the Shell Centre on London’s South Bank have been approved, developers said.

Some of Earth’s most famous sights – including the Pyramids of Egypt and Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer statue – will be lit up green today.

Final preparations are taking place in Dublin today ahead of St Patrick's Day tomorrow.

Another global landmark is to mark St Patrick's Day next year by going green.

Rumours abound on Twitter and the internet. The consequences of trolling can be traumatic, says Rachel Borrill.

Keeping Queen Elizabeth’s role in the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony a secret was “a hell of a job”.

The Olympic Torch reached new heights this morning as it was held aloft on the London Eye.

The future is about the only thing you can’t see clearly from Skyline walkway, writes Michael Moynihan

A stuntman has become the first person to jump out of a helicopter and land without using a parachute.

Tourism organisations around the globe will be green with envy this week as many of the world’s best-known landmarks turn emerald to mark St Patrick’s Day and promote Ireland as a tourist destination.

A host of celebrities and cultural ambassadors will help attract tourists to Ireland next year as part of “The Gathering”, which it is hoped will attract 300,000 overseas visitors next year.

The world’s most famous landmarks will go green next month to mark St Patrick’s Day.

The world’s most famous landmarks will go green next month to mark St Patrick’s Day.

Four radical Islamists have admitted plotting a major pre-Christmas terror attack on the London Stock Exchange.

Four radical Islamists have today admitted an al-Qaida-inspired plot to detonate a bomb at the London Stock Exchange.

Emma Watson has reportedly moved her new boyfriend into her dad's house.

Iconic buildings around the world are going green for St. Patrick's Day.

FOR a little girl who loves to dance, getting to the live semi-final of Sky One’s Got to Dance is a dream come true.

Planners have given the green light for a unique performance and events space in the Dublin docklands, it was revealed today.

AN observation wheel earmarked for Killarney will offer visitors a bird’s eye view of the scenery in the tourist mecca.

Ireland‘s global St Patrick’s Day celebrations will take an enviable twist this year with some of the world’s most iconic buildings turning green.

REVELLERS worldwide met the new year with spectacular fireworks displays and joyful parties against a backdrop of tightened security.

The Dublin Docklands Development Authority says the new Point Village area has been chosen as the location for a planned London Eye-style observation wheel in the capital.

The floodlit cream shells of the famed Opera House dimmed today as Sydney became the world’s first major city to plunge itself into darkness for the second worldwide Earth Hour, a global campaign to highlight the threat of climate change.

Sightseers were given an eyeful today when hundreds of people stripped off beside a top English tourist attraction.

SPECTACULAR fireworks and light shows heralded the start of 2009 in cities across the world, but here revellers made do with house parties and the faithful charms of the pub.

Five today confirmed details of its revived version of classic hit TV show 'Minder', which will star Shane Ritchie as wheeler-dealer Arthur Daley’s nephew.

A 12-YEAR-OLD Cork boy went missing from a school trip in London and was only found when he approached a shop security guard.

THE first three men to be charged in connection with the July 7, 2005, London suicide bombings went on trial yesterday, accused of scouting for potential targets in the capital.

Home video of the ringleader of the July 7 bombings introducing his baby daughter to a man accused of helping him plot his attacks was shown for the first time today.

A man is attempting to set a world record for the number of live Elvis Presley tribute performances achieved by one person in a single day.

More than half a million spectators are expected to descend on central London today as the Tour de France, the world’s biggest annual sporting event, hits town.

One of London’s best-appointed hotels was sold today as part of a £1.1bn (€1.6bn) transaction involving 47 Marriott sites.