President Barack Obama granted an audience to Tibet’s Dalai Lama yesterday over the strong objections from China that the US was meddling in its affairs.

Barack Obama is conditionally endorsing a Russian offer for international inspectors to seize and destroy chemical weapons in Syria as efforts to avert retaliatory US missile strikes shift from Washington to the United Nations.

As a €15m state-of-the-art facility for the deaf opens in Dublin, John Cradden, who is deaf, looks at the challenges faced by a community trying to keep its identity while pursuing social integration

Chapter One has once again rewritten the recipe for success, with the fine dining Dublin venue now named best restaurant four years in a row.

PRINCE ALBERT of Monaco has revealed that an Irish university research post is to be established to commemorate his mother, the late Hollywood actress and Princess of Monaco, Grace Kelly.

Sam has been punished by 'Big Brother' for talking about the outside world.

Laura become the third person to quit the 'Big Brother' house today.

US President Barack Obama and his family were bouncing in their seats at a White House tribute concert for former Beatle Paul McCartney.

A BEAMING President Barack Obama yesterday signed an historic $938 billion healthcare overhaul that guarantees coverage for 32 million uninsured Americans and will touch nearly every citizen’s life. It is the biggest shift in US domestic policy since the 1960s and caps a divisive, year-long debate that could define the November elections.

'Celebrity Big Brother' contestants Katia Ivanova and Basshunter shared a kiss under the duvet as they spent another night in bed together.

President Barack Obama tried to soothe bruised Indian feelings with a glittering state visit dinner and assurances of the world's largest democracy's "rightful place as a global leader".

AM I the only Irishman that went to Cheltenham during Gold Cup week just to drink water? If I’m not, then I’m certainly a member of a very small club and that’s for sure.

A homesick Maysoon has walked out of the 'Big Brother' house for good.

Nicky Maxwell became the fifth person to be evicted from the Big Brother house this evening.

US president George Bush has vetoed legislation to pull US troops out of Iraq in a showdown with Congress over whether the unpopular and costly war should end or escalate.

Rock 'n' roll icon Chuck Berry celebrated his 80th birthday last night with an intimate concert at his favourite St Louis, Missouri hometown haunt the Blueberry Hill's Duck Room.

VIBRATING as naturally as the column of air in a saxophone, the audience in the ballroom at the epicentre of the Guinness Jazz Festival celebrated the sounds of a band named after a dildo.

A fragile peace seems to have been restored to Big Brother, following the shocking brawl which tore the house apart.

One Big Brother housemate is facing eviction tonight as punishment for Kitten’s bad behaviour.

President George Bush remained on the defenisve today insisting there was no warning in a pre-September 11 intelligence memo before the nation’s worst terrorism attack.

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Bush plan to grant illegal immigrants legal status ‘a false promise’

Jonny has been given an official strike from Big Brother.

George W Bush has ushered in his new administration by calling on his staff to uphold high ethical standards.