A solar-powered plane has landed in California, completing a risky, three-day flight across the Pacific as part of its journey around the world.

A six-year-old schoolgirl, who will be scarred for life after being “savagely attacked by a neighbour’s dog,” was yesterday awarded €40,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

Google has extended its self-driving car project to a third city in the US.

A California police officer made a traffic stop — but wrote no ticket as the car had no driver.

In the mind’s eye, he will always have a hurley in his hand.

State police have shifted the focus of their manhunt for two convicted murderers to an area west of the New York prison from which they escaped more than two weeks ago, following a new reported sighting.

Google has signed a long-term lease for part of a historic US navy air base, where it plans to renovate three massive hangars and use them for projects involving aviation, space exploration and robotics.

Google’s Android software is coming to cars, televisions, and watches this year, as the internet search giant races against Apple and other tech companies to extend its business into a rapidly widening field of internet-connected devices.

The IDA is posting 35 executives in key locations around the world in an effort to win extra investment and create 10,000 jobs over the next three years.

A local authority has been urged “to stand tough and firm” in relation to getting work completed on unfinished housing estates.

Google is on a spending spree, buying up firms that could give it the edge in areas such as robotics and AI, write Dan Buckley and Mark Blinch .

A teenager injured when a car driven by a 17-year-old friend crashed with what a judge called “terrifying force” is to receive €100,000 in damages.

While much of corporate America is retrenching on the property front, the four most influential technology companies in America are each planning headquarters that could win a Pritzker Architecture Prize for hubris.

A woman has died following a fire at her home in Co Carlow.

A woman who died following a fire at her home in Co Carlow has been named locally as 50-year-old Margaret Doyle.

A 50-year-old mother whose son pulled her from the burning family home, has died.

The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton has confirmed that the costs last year of operating the IDA’s six offices in the US ran to €5.4m.

Is this the solution to the ghost estate problem?

A GROUP of individuals have banded together to get the deal of a lifetime, snapping up 14 upscale holiday homes in receivership for €85,000 each — less than one-third of the original price.

Fourteen buyers got together to negotiate a combined deal in Glengarriff, writes Tommy Barker.

Fourteen buyers got together to negotiate a combined deal in Glengarriff, writes Tommy Barker.

LAST December “snow” triplets Aaron, Finn and Ryan Hayden-Freeman were born in some of the worst weather the country has experienced after their mother Mandy went into labour at their rural Co Wexford home in the middle of the night.

This airy, bright Mitchelstown house has a roomy 4,200 sq ft, with a house-sized kitchen/conservatory of 1,125 sq ft, writes Rose Martin.

EUROPEAN Tour big-hitter Nicolas Colsaerts equalled his lowest score on the circuit with an opening eight-under-par 62 in the KLM Open at Hilversum yesterday.

A man accused of snatching an Apple iPhone from a woman's hand in San Francisco was arrested just nine minutes later - because the device tracked his every move.

An appeal brought on behalf of a young autistic boy against the High Court's refusal to compel the State to provide funding into the future for a specific form of education for him has commenced before the Supreme Court yesterday.

GOOGLE launched its first branded “superphone” – Nexus One – last night.

Voting No again to the Lisbon Treaty could damage Ireland’s chances of attracting foreign investment and new jobs, Foreign Affairs Minister Micheal Martin has warned.

BUILT just four years ago, this Goggin’s Hill property tops 2,400 square feet and includes an acre of stud-railed grounds and two stables.

THE mother of a young autistic boy wept outside the Four Courts yesterday after the High Court issued a ruling that could force her to sell their family home to meet a legal bill estimated at more than €2 million.

A FOUR-YEAR-OLD won the Maverick All-Ireland junior pedigree cow class at Charleville Agricultural Show for father and son exhibitors John and Gary Hurley, Clonpaddin, Arklow, Co Wicklow.

American internet firm Yahoo has appointed co-founder Jerry Yang as its new chief executive after chairman Terry Semel stepped down from the role.

Telecoms group BT said today it had bought an anti-hacking firm which advises companies on how to protect their computer networks against security threats.

GOOGLE is converting its renowned headquarters to run partly on solar power, hoping to set an example for corporate America.

The Bush Administration has demanded that Google Inc provide details on what its users have been looking for through its popular search engine.

A Dublin Sinn Féin member who was jailed for four years for IRA membership and who was freed on bail last month pending an appeal went back to prison voluntarily today.

In a major expansion, Yahoo says its online search engine index now spans more than 20 billion web documents and images, nearly double the material scanned by rival Google.

A man who had documents in his bedroom on how to make explosives was today found not guilty of IRA membership.

Minister for Justice Michael McDowell today challenged republicans to come clean over their links with criminal activities.

A Dublin man accused of IRA membership gave the minutes of a Sinn Féin cumann meeting to a Special Branch detective who was searching him, the Special Criminal Court heard today.

The head of the Garda Special Branch told the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today that he had confidential information from "garda and non garda sources" that two Dublin men were members of the IRA.

In the most highly-anticipated Wall Street debut since the heady days of the dot-com boom, shares of Google surged nearly 20% on their first day of public trading as the quirky internet company completed its much-hyped initial stock offering.

WITH just two ranking events left on the 2002 U.S. PGA Tour, players looking to win their cards for next season are under increasing pressure to perform at the Buick Challenge starting tomorrow.

Gunmen in a troubled Kingston neighbourhood killed three men and firebombed five houses yesterday, Jamaican police said.