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.

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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.

Great-West Lifeco Inc, Canada’s second-largest insurer, named Bill Kyle chief executive of Irish Life Group Ltd, which the company is set to take over for €1.3 billion within weeks.

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

GREAT-West Lifeco, Canada’s second-largest insurer, is the leading candidate to acquire Irish Life & Permanent’s life assurance unit, according to two people familiar with the matter.

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

Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler has a broken shoulder and stitches in his head after falling from the stage during a South Dakota concert, bandmate Joe Perry said.

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.

A man who beheaded and ate parts of a fellow bus passenger will not go to prison after a Canadian judge ruled that he was not criminally responsible.

Renee Zellweger struggled to deal with the freezing conditions while filming her new movie - and even had to cut her hair short to deal with the icy weather.

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 man accused of beheading and eating parts of a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus told a Canadian judge: “Please kill me.”

A bus passenger calmly stabbed another man dozens of times and decapitated him, pausing briefly to display the head to horrified passengers, witnesses in Canada said.

A bus passenger stabbed the man sitting next to him dozens of times before decapitating him.

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

A teenager died after being shot with a Taser gun while he was brandishing a knife at police in Winnipeg, Canada.

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.

The White Stripes have performed another in a series of unusual gigs on their North American tour, this time in a Canadian bowling alley.

The Anglican Church of Canada will try again today to vote on the issue of blessing same-sex unions.

Marlon Brando's estate is suing a furniture maker after the iconic star's surname was used to sell a chair.

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.

Avril Lavigne is the toast of her native Canada today after claiming five nominations for the country's 2005 Juno Awards.

THERE are two major health hazards in Ireland — smoking and drinking. The publicans are screaming blue murder and say they will not observe the smoking ban.

Richard Gere is putting himself through a blistering dance regimen with two professional dancers to perfect his steps for Shall We Dance, a film set in the world of ballroom dancing in which he stars with Jennifer Lopez.