Apple yesterday said sales for the crucial holiday quarter could miss Wall Street expectations, which chief executive Tim Cook blamed on weakness in emerging markets, foreign exchange costs and uncertainty whether the iPhone maker can keep up with demand for new products.

The June Bank Holiday is easily my favourite holiday especially as it heralds the beginning of summer.

Limerick 1-17 Tipperary 2-12: Limerick drew first blood at the Gaelic Grounds with a 1-17 to 2-12 win against Tipperary in the Munster Minor Hurling Championship yesterday.

Liverpool footballer Jon Flanagan "slammed" his girlfriend against a wall before kicking her, a court has heard.

Eoghan Cormican looks ahead to the action in the Cork club championship this weekend.

Wall Street capped a subdued day of trading today with a tiny gain and another milestone.

Ballyduff Lower (Waterford) 0-15 Kilgarvan (Kerry) 0-5: Ballyduff Lower outsmarted a plucky Kilgarvan at Walsh Park on Saturday to make the last four of the Munster junior hurling championship.

Some say we should forget about wars. However, rather than glorify or celebrate them, we should remember every gory detail to try to prevent further conflicts, writes Ryle Dwyer

USA: Presidential candidate Jeb Bush says he once got an email asking if he would go back in time, if it were possible, and kill the baby Adolf Hitler.

By defying history to pull off a spectacular election victory David Cameron may yet have set in train events that will soon consign the United Kingdom itself to the history books.

Twitter has beaten Wall Street forecasts after it posted a big jump in quarterly revenues.

President Barack Obama is vowing to relentlessly hunt down terrorists from “Pakistan to the streets of Paris”.

The fall of the Berlin Wall 25 years ago, heralding the end to the Cold War between East and West, showed the world that "dreams can come true" and should inspire people trapped in tyranny everywhere, Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday.

Equestrian: Lady luck is capricious, as show jumper Cameron Hanley will attest.

ONE of the biggest wine scandals of the past few decades reached its final chapter in a New York court on August 7 last when Rudy Kurniawan was sentenced to 10 years in prison for selling fake wine.

BlackBerry has surprised Wall Street by posting profit for the first quarter.

My life informs my writing.

John Legend will tie the knot in early September.

Fears over the health of the US economy and worries over a possible bird flu pandemic sent investors crashing down to earth today as global stock markets plunged.

Stocks closed lower on Wall Street as investors worried that a controversial proposal to seize money from depositors in Cyprus could set off another bout of anxiety over Europe’s shared currency.

Great things are expected of singer and songwriter Rachel Sermanni, who is only 19, says Ed Power

Concerns that Europe's debt crisis could drag down parts of the continent's banking system hit most global markets today, though social network Facebook's imminent flotation buoyed sentiment on Wall Street.

A Goldman Sachs banker has launched a withering attack on the bank in a newspaper column announcing his resignation, saying that some managing directors at the Wall Street firm had referred to their own clients as “muppets”.

Asian stocks markets mostly posted tentative gains today following a mixed bag of US and European economic reports and as oil prices rose to a new nine-month high.

Asian stocks plodded higher today, tracking slight gains on Wall Street and assisted by an absence of bad financial news.

DEUTSCHE Boerse won US antitrust approval to buy NYSE Euronext in a $9 billion deal to create the world’s No 1 exchange operator, but the transaction still faces serious regulatory headwinds in Europe.

A post mortem examination is to be carried out on a body of a man discovered in Co Meath last night.

Investors in Apple today appeared to be getting over the worst of the shock of Steve Jobs resignation from the CEO post.

The London market lost ground today after an emergency summit between the leaders of France and Germany failed to ease fears over the eurozone crisis.

London’s FTSE 100 Index sunk into the red today as political unrest in Egypt hit sentiment and sent travel stocks lower.

Shares pressure in the retail sector weighed on the FTSE 100 Index today as a mixed session on Wall Street also hit stocks.

Apple shares have fallen sharply in early trading on Wall Street a day after chief executive Steve Jobs announced he was taking another medical leave of absence.

The threat of a ratings downgrade for Spain sent blue-chip banks lower today and dragged the FTSE 100 Index back from yesterday's two-and-a-half-year high.

The FTSE 100 Index regained some ground today after positive retail figures at home and uplifting unemployment data in the US steadied investors' nerves.

The Taoiseach will hold meetings with top executives from Wall Street’s financial sector during the second day of his trip to the United States.

London's FTSE 100 Index plunged more than 2% into the red today as recovery fears sent stock markets reeling worldwide.

Strong gains on Wall Street helped limit losses for under-pressure BP today as the wider FTSE 100 Index also pulled back from early heavy falls.

Financial stocks and miners were in demand today as the FTSE 100 Index advanced 1%.

The London market lost 2.6% today as world indices were battered by fresh fear over Greece’s debt woes amid concerns that other European nations could be swept up in the crisis.

London’s top-flight shares receded from the 5600 mark today as investors paused for breath in the wake of Friday’s 18-month highs.

Energy and banking firms were out of favour with investors today as the London market slid lower.