This year is expected to be one of the hottest on record, with temperatures more than 1C above pre-industrial levels, the World Meteorological Organisation has said.

This year is expected to be one of the hottest on record, with temperatures more than 1C above pre-industrial levels, the World Meteorological Organisation has said.

North Korea’s sabre-ratting against the US has actually left its strongest ally, China, feeling that it is being encircled, writes Paul Eckert.

THE parents of Ireland’s conjoined twins Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf, who were separated in complex surgery in London in early April, hope to have their precious sons home in Carrigtwohill, Co Cork within a matter of weeks.

The pilot of a US Air Force U-2 spy plane died in a crash while returning to a base in southwest Asia, the military said today.