A prominent Hindu statesman is urging Dublin City Council to develop a dedicated area where Hindus in Ireland can scatter the cremated remains of their dead.

Carl Frampton is no stranger to Las Vegas.

Harley Davidson is betting on electric motorcycles to attract the next generation of younger and more environmentally conscious riders to reverse declining US sales.

British bookmaker William Hill has posted lower first-half profit, as a regulatory cap on fixed odds betting terminals in UK betting shops and more costs to expand in the US took a toll on the gambling group.

Millions believe that Nasa hired a famed filmmaker to fake the 1969 moon landing Robert Hume explores the conspiracy theories, and seeks rational answers to them.

Conor McGregor has been banned from competition for six months and fined $50,000 for a post-fight brawl at UFC 229.

Willy Vlautin is glad to be returning to Ireland for Ballincollig Winter Music Festival. First, The Delines just had to get over a major accident for their singer, writes Ed Power.

Shares in leading betting companies which have been pushing into the US market because of tighter regulations in the UK, fell after the US Department of Justice called for wider restrictions on all gambling on the internet.

ACCORDING to the cliché, records are meant to be broken. But given the limits of human ability or physics, there are some that may never be.

Trump may not have built his wall but he is effectively deterring immigration through detentions, deportations, separations, threats and a culture of fear, writes Bette Browne

A British tourist who was pulled from the wreckage of a fiery helicopter crash in the Grand Canyon is now in a "fair" condition at a Nevada hospital, authorities have said.

Donald Trump supporters across the US have lashed out against his proposal to create a path to citizenship for nearly two million "Dreamer" immigrants.

President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation to scale back two sprawling national monuments in Utah, pledging to "reverse federal overreach and restore the rights of this land to your citizens".

Elon Musk has built the Tesla Gigafactory in the midst of the Nevada desert. But even the deep pockets of the greenminded billionaire could be challenged by the investment needed to create mass-market cars that are electric and driverless, writes Jon Gertner.

Everything that is making news in the world of cars and motors.

A fifth day of desperate firefighting in California wine country brought a glimmer of hope yesterday as crews battling the flames reported their first progress toward containing the massive blazes.

Investigators have met the brother of the Las Vegas gunman while friends and relatives of the 58 killed and other concert-goers returned to the scene to reclaim shoes, phones and bags left behind in the panic as they fled.

More than a dozen wildfires whipped by powerful winds have swept through California wine country, destroying at least 1,500 homes and businesses and sending about 20,000 people fleeing for safety.

Senior Republicans are open to considering legislation banning "bump stocks" like the gunman in Las Vegas apparently used to effectively convert semi-automatic rifles into fully automated weapons.

OJ Simpson will live in Florida after he is released on parole from a Nevada prison where he has been held for the past nine years.

Simpson's release is expected after nine years behind bars for his 2008 armed robbery and kidnapping convictions.

Tommy Barker reports on a superb west Cork family home near Enniskeane with ‘rooms’ for horses

When asked to cast his mind back to the last time he took part in a competitive boxing match, all Conor McGregor can do is glance skywards and let out a long exhale of breath. It has been so long for him that he can’t even remember.

For a man who calls himself ‘Money’ without any hint of irony, it is perhaps not surprising that Floyd Mayweather loves a bet.

The British security expert hailed a hero for derailing a global cyber attack admitted to police he created a code which harvests bank details and hinted he sold it, a prosecutor told his US court hearing.

David Lyttle’s US journey was more of a jazz-playing road-trip than a conventional music tour. Along the way he played at Art Blakey’s house and used an assault rifle as a percussion instrument, writes Alan O’Riordan

OJ Simpson will plead for release later from the Nevada prison where he has spent more than eight years for armed robbery and assault with a weapon.

Imprisoned former American football star OJ Simpson has a July 20 parole hearing that could have him released from a Nevada prison on October 1, a state parole official said.

Sometime in the not distant future, they will become the Las Vegas Raiders. Until then, likely in 2020, Mark Davis’ team belongs to Oakland. Well, sort of.

Canadians are expected to be able to smoke cannabis legally by July 1, 2018.

Q. Are sheet masks better than those in tubes or jars?

Michigan's presidential recount has been thrown into doubt after a state appeals court said the Green Party candidate's poor showing disqualified her from seeking a second look at the votes.

An air ambulance plane taking a heart disease patient to a Utah hospital has crashed and exploded in a car park in northern Nevada, killing all four people aboard.

Donald Trump has vowed to spend some of the final hours of the presidential campaign in Democratic strongholds in a bid to pull off a shock in states that have not voted for a Republican in decades.

Hillary Clinton is pushing her supporters to cast early ballots in key battleground states in the race for the White House, as Donald Trump tries to make up ground with intensified attacks following the FBI's renewed examination of her email practices.

Donald Trump is taking a break from campaigning to formally open his new hotel in Washington DC, leaving his running mate to visit Utah, which has not backed a Democrat for president for 52 years.

Buoyant US presidential contender Hillary Clinton says she is looking past Donald Trump and widening her mission to help fellow Democrats seize the Senate and chip away at the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.

Three people on board a small plane have died after it crashed into a car park at an airport in the U.S. state of Nevada.

According to a report in Science News, Europe’s oldest living thing is a tree growing in the Pindus Mountains of Northern Greece.

Advantage card players aren’t cheaters, but they hone the sharpest (legal) edge they can, reports Michael Kaplan