A man has died after falling from a hot air balloon basket in New York state.

More than 100 cinemas in the UK and Ireland will be screening the upcoming special episode of Sherlock: The Abominable Bride, on January 1st, 2016.

JAPAN: A Japanese railway company is turning to cameras as a way to spot drunken behaviour and keep late-boozing patrons from tumbling onto the tracks, a spokesman said.

Seven people have been charged after a cache of weapons including automatic rifles and machine pistols was recovered in the largest seizure of its kind in Britain.

USA: A hen owned by a Massachusetts woman who specialises in chicken rehabilitation and rescue is getting fitted with a prosthetic leg at Tufts University’s Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine.

USA: A Staten Island plumber who’s won a $136m (€121m) Powerball jackpot says he wants to keep working — but also plans to “relax a little more”.

Nigel Farage has vowed to quit as Ukip leader if he fails to become an MP at the UK's general election, declaring it would be “curtains for me”.

USA: Two men who vandalised a historic military structure at a national park near San Francisco had to be rescued after they were stranded on a steep cliff while trying to escape.

ENGLAND: Britain is trying to make sure its citizens are more nice than naughty while soaking up the Arabian Gulf sun this Christmas.

David Cameron has been warned that barring European Union nationals from claiming benefits in Britain would be “totally discriminatory” as he prepares to deliver a key speech on immigration.

British prime minister David Cameron’s Conservatives lost a second parliamentary seat to the anti-EU Ukip, an embarrassing defeat heralding a possible fragmentation of Britain’s two-party system in next year’s national election.

Campaign dominated by immigration as Cameron digs in

Angela Merkel has warned David Cameron that his drive to curb immigration within the European Union is pushing Britain towards exiting the EU, according to German news reports.

Ukip has its first elected MP after a dramatic night which left the two main Westminster parties licking their wounds.

A New York State man accused of plotting to kill members of the US military and others faces new charges that he tried to aid the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.

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Rescuers have lost hope of finding a prominent New York couple or recovering wreckage from their small plane which crashed into the sea off Jamaica.

A small plane with its pilot slumped over flew a ghostly 1,700-mile journey down the Atlantic Coast shadowed by two US fighter jets before finally crashing in the waters off Jamaica.

Comedian Harry Hill and broadcaster Sandi Toksvig are to receive honorary degrees in recognition of their talent and contribution to the arts.

A former police officer suspected in the deaths of two women whose bodies were stuffed into suitcases and discarded on a rural Wisconsin highway met victims online, in one case possibly through a bondage website, according to police.

Ireland’s embassy in Washington has contacted a US senator to raise concerns over his call for over 1,100 at-risk jobs at a pharmaceutical giant in Waterford to be moved to New York.

A US senator has been criticised for encouraging the CEO of Bausch + Lomb’s parent company to move the 1,100-plus Waterford-based jobs to New York.

The Government has denied it asked a pharmaceutical giant which announced 200 job losses yesterday to delay the news until after the local elections.

Foul play by council causes a bit of a stink

The Church of England has been accused of “dumbing down” the baptism service, one of the cornerstones of the faith, by changing its wording so parents and godparents no longer have to “repent sins” and “reject the devil”.

A winter storm with fierce winds has struck the north eastern United States dumping nearly two feet of snow in some parts and whipping up blizzard-like conditions.

A bump on the head leading to momentary loss of consciousness may be linked to changes in the brain associated with Alzheimer’s, research suggests.

It's cold in Minnesota this time of year. Really, really cold.

A Christian woman has asked the Court of Appeal for a landmark ruling that she has the legal right not to be forced by an employer to work on Sundays.

A plaque commemorating the visit to Ireland of a former slave and influential anti-slavery campaigner during the Famine was unveiled yesterday.

Some of the world’s most popular bloggers were eating, drinking and sightseeing their way around Cork and Kerry for the past few days.

The world’s top two players looked anything but after finding themselves relegated to the status of also-rans in the US PGA Championship today.

Jason Dufner shot himself into the golfing record books at the PGA Championship last night with a second-round of 63, equalling the lowest score ever carded in Major championship history.

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.

Tiger Woods can’t wait to get to the PGA Championship. Woods grabbed a big lead with a second-round 61 and then closed out the field with a safe and smart even-par 70 on Sunday to roll to a seven-shot victory at the Bridgestone Invitational.

I definitely feel like now I can go out and have more control of my golf ball, which is a good thing, while my short game is pretty good so I have brought a few positives here to the PGA

Rory McIlroy has promised a surprise when he hosts tomorrow night’s past PGA Championship winner’s dinner at the Oak Hill club in upper New York State.

Graeme McDowell is relishing next week’s visit to Oak Hills and the PGA Championship.

A man convicted of crimes as a reputed Mafia captain who is promoting an upcoming book claims missing Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa is buried outside Detroit, Michigan.

Authorities said they are evacuating a lakeside neighbourhood in western New York where two firefighters have been shot dead while responding to a blaze that engulfed three homes.

From Gregory Porter to Phronesis, and Rudresh Mahantappa to Synergy —Kieran Bohane previews the programme for this weekend’s Cork Jazz Festival

An eight-year-old girl is in a critical condition after being shot by her adult cousin who mistook her black and white Halloween costume for a skunk.