Climate change is increasing global hunger, with some countries worse off today than a decade ago, a new study shows.

Mark English spoke out against a lack of transparency from athletics’ world governing body (IAAF) yesterday after the 26-year-old was denied a place at this year’s World Championships in Doha.

The Irish woman who died in a bus crash in Dubai has been named as Fiona Geraghty from North County Dublin.

The board of car manufacturer Renault is meeting to settle ex-chairman and CEO Carlos Ghosn's final pay cheque and wrap up its investigation into possible financial wrongdoing under his leadership.

Ranulph Fiennes has survived many tight spots as the world’s greatest living explorer, but one of the first risks he took landed him

In the third of a four-part series looking at finalists for the Cork Company of the Year Awards 2019, Padraig Hoare casts an eye over those in the Large category.

Shares in Kerry Group have risen 2.5% after the food firm said it was in good financial shape to continue its worldwide acquisitions drive and to withstand fast-flowing changes in consumer preferences. In an interim management statement, Kerry said that it increased sales volumes and revenues and maintained its profit margins, with pricing having fallen only slightly in the group in the third quarter.

After the near collapse of his company following the 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster and a three-year slump in oil prices, BP chief executive Bob Dudley is hardly relaxed.

Denyse Woods was born in Boston, but has been living in Cork for almost 30 years, and is based in Inniscarra.

The government has revealed where ministers are being sent for St Patrick’s Day.

Those who insist there is no such thing as a ‘friendly’ in Test rugby found their argument undermined on Saturday as a stadium slumbered and two teams went about their largely bloodless and perfunctory business.

The Qatari authorities are still not doing enough to protect migrant workers from the country's extreme heat and humidity, even those working on World Cup stadiums, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).

Gavin Moynihan will hope to make it a glorious homecoming at the Irish Challenge hosted by Mount Wolseley Hotel, Spa, and Golf Resort, as he targets a maiden Challenge Tour victory.

Singapore has a near-perfect approach to cybersecurity, but many other rich countries have holes in their defences and some poorer countries are showing them how it should be done, a UN survey has shown.

BP’s profit nearly tripled in the first quarter of 2017 from a year earlier, buoyed by rising oil prices and production that hit a five-year high, while debt piled up in order to pay for acquisitions and costs for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill.

A Germany-bound Eurowings passenger flight from Oman landed in Kuwait today over a bomb threat - but no explosives were found on board, authorities said.

Oil rose to an 18-month high as output cuts by Kuwait and Oman signalled that Opec and its partners are delivering on their accord to stabilise the market.

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Harry Arter seems eager to make up for lost time and opportunities.

Not many footballers get to sign off with a script of their own choosing but Robbie Keane called time on an 18-year international career last night by claiming a 68th goal for the Republic of Ireland in the 4-0 rout of Oman at the Aviva Stadium.

Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis marched today in support of Shiite Houthi rebels and their ally, former president Ali Abdullah Saleh.

The Visually Impaired Walking Group make great strides as they pound Cork paths, writes Dan MacCarthy

Shares in Irish mining firm Kenmare Resources surged nearly 29% yesterday on the back of it copperfastening a deal that will slash its debt by over $200m (€258m).

The next five years is a make or break period for Ireland’s burgeoning offshore exploration sector, an industry analyst said yesterday.

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.

OMAN: The 500-year-old wreckage of a Portuguese ship piloted by an uncle of explorer Vasco da Gama has been found off the coast of Oman, a discovery that included the recovery of an incredibly rare coin — of which only one other was thought to exist.

Ireland all-rounder Kevin O’Brien says the younger members of the squad are ready to make the “step up” to the big stage in the ICC World Twenty20 in India.

Carol O’Callaghan meets the man behind a thousand store fronts — the principal of architecture and design company, Douglas Wallace Consultants, and a man who’s become better known as a judge in ‘Home of the Year’.

Behind its strategic manipulations and sham alliance to tackle the likes of IS, a purported ally of the West’s official ideology forms the heart of the terrorist creed, writes Brahma Chellaney

Saudi Arabia is leading a new anti-terror military alliance of 34 Muslim-majority nations, with a joint operations centre based in the kingdom’s capital Riyadh.

Saudi Arabia appears to have floated the idea of a global deal to balance oil markets and lift prices from around the lowest levels in six years although fellow producers Iran, Iraq and Russia yesterday rejected its main idea of cutting output.

West Waterford’s Gary Hurley fired five birdies in an opening 68 to get his qualifying bid off to a positive start in the 72-hole European Tour Qualifying School Second Stage in Spain.

Exploration firm Circle Oil has said it may explore a number of funding options to safeguard its financial stability in the current depressed oil price environment.

The Irish arm of engineering firm Mott McDonald plunged back into the red last year after the firm performed below expectations.

Circle Oil is hoping to reach agreement by the end of this year on a farm-out deal, regarding its highly-rated assets offshore Tunisia.

Like the 46A bus to Dun Laoghaire, which would take an age to come and then arrive with another stuck to its exhaust pipe, there are signs that things are about to start moving apace in Irish golf.