With a diverse terrain from the beach to the rainforest, the Dominican Republic is a becoming a favourite for Irish visitors.

If you wanted to start a Make Enda Great Again campaign, then you could think of worse times to do it than a day after befriending Donald Trump and in the middle of a celebration for an old man who banished the snakes of Ireland.

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.

A top tourist town in West Cork has been named as one of the world’s top 100 sustainable destinations.

Niagara Falls has become the latest natural wonder to add a zip line, offering thrill-seekers the chance to take an adrenaline-pumping plunge towards churning mist at speeds topping 64kph.

Paying tribute to one of his best-known albums Purple Rain, major cities all over the world have been lighting up accordingly.

An Ontario man who vanished in 1986 and was believed dead will soon be reunited with his family.

Some of the stranger stories from around the world.

Believers in the legendary Bigfoot have gathered in western New York, convinced the giant ape also known as Sasquatch has left its footprints all over the region. 

GERMANY: Police in western Germany are looking for thieves who broke into a shop selling alcohol and stole the caps off 1,200 bottles of beer — presumably to collect points for a prize contest — yet left the suds themselves untouched.

A collision between a bus carrying Italian tourists and a lorry in Pennsylvania has left three people dead and many injured.

Daredevil performer Nik Wallenda has successfully completed a walk across the rim of the 400ft (120-metre) Orlando Eye observation wheel in Florida.

St Patrick’s Day celebrations continue to gather momentum around the world. 

SCOTLAND:

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

Ice climber Will Gadd became the first person ever to scale Niagra Falls - while it was frozen solid.

USA: A naked man broke into two homes, drank booze and used a hot tub at one of them, police in Oregon said.

Daredevil Nik Wallenda wowed Chicago and the world with two skyscraper crossings on a tightrope without a safety net or a harness.

The opening of the world's tallest water slide has been postponed by two weeks, because of problems during testing.

THE iconic sites of Petra, Niagara Falls, the Tower of Piza, the Sydney Opera House, the Pyramids — these, and scores of other iconic buildings and monuments across the world, will be illuminated bright green on St Patrick’s Day.

Tourism Minister Leo Varadkar has defended Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s decision to march in the controversial St Patrick’s Day Parade in New York.

An animal rights group is fighting for chimpanzees in the US to be given rights as legal people so they are ensured better treatment.

A US animal rights group has filed what it said is the first lawsuit seeking to establish the “legal personhood” of chimpanzees.

Salustiano Sanchez-Blazquez, a former musician and coal miner certified by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest man, has died at 112.

A GIANT gushing wall of white water approaches, cold spray douses your face, mist swirls all around; a thunderous roar rings in your ears.

99 of the world’s top 100 were today among the field contesting the US PGA Championship, but world number two Phil Mickelson was almost not among them.

Dozens of parents who have children with cancer have joined forces to turn Ireland gold for a whole week.

Nik Wallenda’s hope of tightrope walking between New York’s most famous skyscrapers is not going to happen, the city’s top police officer has said.

Nik Wallenda’s hope of tightrope walking between New York’s most famous skyscrapers is not going to happen, the city’s top police officer has said.

American daredevil Nik Wallenda has become the first man to cross a Grand Canyon-area gorge on a tightrope, completing his latest record-breaking feat in under 23 minutes.

A tightrope daredevil has completed a walk that took him quarter of a mile over the Little Colorado River Gorge in north-eastern Arizona.

They came last in 2007, but a new album marks 24 wonderful years on the road, says Siobhán Cronin

A giant Irish-knit jumper and the world’s biggest raggy doll were among the spectacular sights and sounds at the St Patrick’s Day parade in Dublin.

A giant Irish-knit jumper and the world’s biggest raggy doll were among the spectacular sights and sounds at the annual St Patrick’s Day parade in Dublin.

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.

It seems like the Vatican in Rome might be the only landmark on the planet that isn’t turning green to mark St Patrick’s Day around the world.

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

No wonder high-wire artist Nik Wallenda was on cloud nine.

The trouble with buying cattle in the mart these days is that there are too many buyers, and not enough sellers. It’s as simple at that.

Millions of revellers are preparing to celebrate St Patrick's Day at home and abroad.