As oil crashes through $35 a barrel in New York, some producers are already selling for much lower prices.

With oil prices on a seemingly never-ending slide, China, Europe, and, Indeed, Ireland wait to see the ramifications, writes Kyran FitzGerald.

The 2014 Rose of Tralee was crowned last night after a nerve-wracking finale to the contest saw six different contenders neck and neck until seconds before the winner was named.

Hairstyling is all about trends and the latest could be called ‘the Canadian’.

It’s no country for young men, especially in rural areas where the recession has decimated the jobs market.

Construction worker unions in Canada have criticised a recruitment drive for hundreds of workers here to take on roles which, the unions say, should be filled by homegrown talent.

Severe flooding has killed at least three people in western Canada and forced up to 75,000 to leave their homes.

As many as 100,000 people could be forced from their homes by heavy flooding in western Canada, Calgary city officials said, while mudslides forced the closure of the Trans-Canada Highway around the mountain resort towns of Banff and Canmore.

Canada’s government has approved China’s biggest overseas energy acquisition, a €11.7bn takeover by state-owned CNOOC of oil and gas producer Nexen.

A tsunami warning was issued after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the coast of western Canada today.

Organisers of a jobs fair in Cork today say they are disappointed with the turnout.

Government support to agriculture in OECD countries fell to 19% of total farm receipts in 2011, according to the latest analysis from the Paris-based think-tank.

More than 200 jobs in Western Canada are on offer this weekend at a recruitment fair in Dublin.

Certain regions in Canada are willing to give permanent residency to Irish farmers who are willing to buy land and set up shop in the North American country.

Senior officials from western Canada have issued a call to arms for Ireland’s unemployed construction workers to help build the region’s future.

Barack Obama has sparked a huge row by rejecting plans for a massive oil pipeline through the heart of the United States, saying there was not enough time for a fair review before a looming deadline forced on him by Republicans.

Researchers in Chile have released a series of time-lapse photos showing the dramatic retreat of a glacier in Patagonia.

IN THE movie Jurassic Park, amber preserved the DNA that allowed the rebirth of dinosaurs.

A COUPLE of weeks ago I wrote about Monkey Puzzle trees, mentioning that the man responsible for introducing them to these islands was Archibald Menzies, a Scottish medical doctor and botanist.

About 2,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in western Canada after a landslide triggered fears of a flood.

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SOME of the big stars on Twitter have recently retired from sharing the minutiae of their lives in bite-sized online updates.

The bodies of seven snowmobile riders were found today after they were swept away by avalanches in western Canada.

Scientists say they are searching for remnants of a meteor that brilliantly lit up the sky before breaking into pieces that may have fallen to earth in western Canada.

TWENTY-FOUR hours, 365 days a year, trucks the size of three-storey houses roll across an Arctic wasteland, scooping up a sticky sand that has become the holy grail of global oil companies and multinational investors.

A skydiver’s hope to set a new free-fall record was dealt another blow yesterday when his ride to the sky left without him.

A woman and her adult daughter burned to death in a hot air balloon as their families looked on in horror.

Six people died and 19 were injured after a pick-up truck ploughed through a wedding crowd, police in western Canada said tonight.

A 32 year-old woman was mauled to death by a tiger owned by her boyfriend in western Canada, authorities said tonight.

The US government’s star witness at former media mogul Conrad Black’s fraud trial testified that he consulted Black on every business deal he made on behalf of the Hollinger newspaper empire.

Payments totalling $9.5m (€6.9m) that prosecutors say belonged to Hollinger International shareholders went instead to media mogul Conrad Black and four other executives, a company memo showed.

A businessman who steered Conrad Black’s Hollinger newspaper empire through a storm of lawsuits and investigations told a court that the former media mogul “was very knowledgeable” about the finances of the company he is accused of swindling out of £44m (€65m).

Actress Pamela Anderson has requested a meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper to discuss Canada’s seal hunt, adding her name to the growing list of celebrities who speak out against the annual hunt, which just got under way.

A medical helicopter returning to its base with a pilot and two nurses aboard crashed into Puget Sound just north of Edmonds, Washington State apparently killing all three people, authorities said.

Ongoing peace efforts in Northern Ireland are “the one little bright spot” on the international stage and need the world’s continued attention, Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams said during a fund-raising stop in western Canada.

INVESTIGATORS are combing Canadian feed mills and rendering plants to try to pinpoint the source of infection for the BSE-infected Washington state cow.

IN THE early 1990s, a member of the Christian Brothers was watching television from his home in Western Canada. He tuned into live coverage of the Hughes Inquiry then underway in Newfoundland. The inquiry was investigating allegations of abuse by Christian Brothers in Newfoundland’s Mount Cashel Orphanage.