The two men killed in a car accident in Canada over the weekend have been named locally as Raymond McCann and Cathal Murphy, both from Cork.

A 24-year-old Canadian man previously banned from associating with Islamic State (IS) extremists had prepared a ‘martyrdom’ video and was about to commit a terrorist attack when he died in a police operation, officers said.

Kya deLongchamps celebrates a bear of very little brain, but very large heart, with some collectables for your honey pot.

Twitter issued an alert to some users warning them that state-sponsored hackers may have tried to obtain sensitive data from their accounts, the company said, the first such warning by the micro blogging site.

Police in the Canadian city of Winnipeg have apologised after a lewd conversation about sex was broadcast from the loudspeakers of a police helicopter to a neighbourhood below.

Drawing on 40,000 years of his tribe, Frank Yamma has had a storied career, writes Áilín Quinlan

Kingspan has acquired the building products division of Canadian group Vicwest for Can$154.4m (€109.4m).

The remains of as many as four dead infants have been found in a storage locker in the central Canadian city of Winnipeg, say police.

Addiction seemed to stalk Robin Williams, taunting him when he least expected it.

Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has apologised for the high death toll among the country’s health workers, who have fought an ebola outbreak which has killed nearly 1,000 people in three countries.

Icy, snow-covered roads and high winds have made travel treacherous from the Dakotas to Michigan and Missouri as much of the US prepared for dangerously cold temperatures that could break records.

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Chris Brown has cancelled four concerts in Canada due to "personal and health-related issues".

A 27-year-old man died after his car hit a ditch adjacent to a junction of a main road in East Cork early yesterday.

Richard Fitzpatrick picks his top summer reads — don’t go to the beach without one of these in your bag.

Irish Life Group Ltd chief Kevin Murphy postponed his plans to retire at the end of 2012 as the Government revived talks to sell the state-owned insurer to Canada’s Great-West Lifeco Inc.

Rapeseed output in the EU, the world’s largest producer of the oilseed used in cooking and biofuels, may increase to a four-year high after German farmers planted more crops.

A postal agency in Canada have been forced to suspend their mail deliveries because the postman is being dive-bombed by birds.

New albums from five acts show a genre thriving on the best US influences, says Gerry Quinn

Six members of a Canadian biker gang were found guilty of murdering eight men in the worst mass killings in Ontario history.

NATO forces foiled an attack by Somali pirates on a Norwegian oil tanker, and briefly detained seven gunmen after hunting them down under cover of darkness, Nato officials said yesterday.

Renee Zellweger has become an unofficial ambassador for underwear company Hanes after insisting the firm's pantyhose saved her life on the freezing set of her new film.

A 15-year-old boy working on a Canadian building site died after he was buried under a mountain of searing-hot asphalt.

A FAMILY flew out of an airport leaving their two-year-old boy behind and only discovered he was missing when contacted during the next leg of the trip.

A family flew out of an airport leaving their two-year-old boy behind and only discovered he was missing when contacted during the next leg of the trip.

A CANADIAN sports promoter plans to showcase ice hockey violence in Prince George in two months by getting rid of the boring gameplay and focusing on what hockey fans really want — blood-splattering, bare-knuckle, on-ice brawls.

THE future of Canada Life’s 900 Irish workers was secured yesterday when Great-West Lifeco Inc beat off Manulife to take over the company.

A Briton convicted of carrying out a cyber-terror campaign against a Canadian woman wept and screamed as he was jailed for two years.

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh were rescued when their boat broke down in freezing temperatures on Winnipeg’s Red River.

A DUTCH nurse, accused of murdering 13 patients with drug overdoses, yesterday told a court she secretly read tarot cards to the terminally ill “so they wouldn’t worry about their futures”.

A plane landed safely after the pilot reported a spilled drink had shorted out some of its electrical system, filling part of the jumbo jet with smoke.

Matt Groening claims Homer Simpson is Canadian.

Lawyers in Canada have promised to take Ontario officials to court if they refuse to register two homosexual marriages performed at a Toronto church.