In the majority of games, it’s very rare that a lack of fitness causes a team to lose a game and it’s not possible to improve skillset and decision-making by running laps.

Isabel Conway spots the travel trends for the year ahead.

There is a risk that we are raising children that are physically unscathed by injury but are psychologically fragile, Carl Dixon tells Mark Boyden.

Des O’Driscoll takes us through the week’s TV viewing and what needs to be on your list.

Within easy reach and open all hours, Robert Hume pays tribute to the automated telling machine (ATM), or ‘hole-in-the-wall’, which celebrates its 50th birthday today.

As China continues to expand its sphere of influence, Brahma Chellaney looks at the steps the US can take to demonstrate its concerns.

CAN coffee make you bulletproof? Well, not exactly, but Dave Asprey, the man who pioneered bulletproof or buttered coffee, has thought about that question more than most.

Esther Rantzen is paired with John on the first episode of Celebrity First Dates, on Channel 4 at 9pm on Friday.

Today is World Refugee Day, and aid agency GOAL have released six facts that you probably do not know about refugees.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

Barry Walsh (Letters, January 27) is correct to point out that “Double speak around Putin shouldn’t surprise”.

The daughter of a journalist, brought up in a house full of books, Fiona always loved writing.

Police have scuffled with protesters at a Beijing courthouse as prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang stood trial on charges of provoking trouble and stirring ethnic hatred.

 

A summer spent eating, swimming, and resting doesn’t sound too taxing but it could just earn two intrepid adventurers a place in the record books.

Thousands of fear-stricken people spent the night outdoors after a new earthquake killed dozens of people and spread more misery in Nepal.

A second powerful earthquake in less than three weeks spread panic in Nepal yesterday, bringing down buildings weakened by the first disaster and killing at least 66 people, including 17 in neighbouring India and one in Tibet.

The first supplies of food aid began reaching remote mountain villages in Nepal after the earthquake that killed more than 5,500 people.

The man that French rescuers freed from the ruins of a three-storey Kathmandu hotel more than three days after the quake, said he drank his own urine to survive.

Shelter, fuel, food, medicine, power, news, workers — Nepal’s earthquake-hit capital was short on everything as its people searched for lost loved ones, sorted through rubble for their belongings and struggled to provide for their families’ needs.

Tens of thousands of people were spending the night in the open after a powerful earthquake devastated Nepal, killing more than 1,180 people.

GOAL has dispatched an emergency response team to Nepal to support relief efforts following the worst earthquake to hit the country in 80 years.

A powerful earthquake which struck Nepal today has killed at least 876 people across four countries.

Your spoiler-free guide to tonight's TV.

Ancient sacred Buddha relics said to have mysterious energy and healing properties are to go on public display in Cork for the first time — all thanks to a non-Buddhist.

Veteran nature documentary maker David Attenborough has set himself a challenge to find the Yeti.

Every plant brings something to the garden, whether it’s foliage interest, flower, texture, height, movement or something altogether different. 

The Tibetan Plateau has an average elevation of 14,800 feet. Ben Nevis, the highest point in the British Isles, is 4,406 feet. Needless to say, most of us would struggle living in Tibet.

The all encompassing crackdown on attempts to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre says something about the nature of the regime that still holds China in its grip.

A social charity says that the 13-year-old daughter of poor Indian farmers has become the youngest girl to climb Mount Everest.

Aspiring superpower China has so far been happy to sit on the fence over neighbour Russia’s actions in Crimea, as it waits to see what may be possible closer to home, writes Max Strasser

A Tibetan mastiff puppy has been sold in China for almost €1.4m, a report said, in what could be the most expensive dog sale ever.

A GLANCE at a satellite photograph of Ireland at night shows a huge amount of light around Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick and Belfast. But there are also areas of the country that seem blacked out, which makes them suitable for star-gazing.

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.

Mark Boyden’s early upbringing near San Francisco gave some hint as to how his life might unfold.

The Dalai Lama will not attend memorial services for fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nelson Mandela in South Africa, where he has twice been unable to obtain a visa.

Last Sunday, St Martin’s Eve, was also the 238th birthday of the US Marine Corps, a naval infantry whose ranks have included many Irish.

An Australian couple survived for six hours buried under ice and snow after an avalanche in Tibet only for the husband to die after descending the mountain.

An Australian man and three Tibetans have died in an avalanche on Mount Everest, Chinese state media said today.

This week's new releases

WESTERN religions seem indifferent, even hostile, to nature conservation. Perhaps they see environmentalism as too secularist in outlook.