MORNING BULLETIN: Points fall as over 52,000 college places offered; Police step up Spanish terror attack manhunt
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The points needed to study most third-level degrees have fallen again, but it is unclear yet if Leaving Certificate grading and CAO reforms are the main reason.
Orla Tinsley, a campaigner for people with cystic fibrosis, thought her wait for a double lung transplant was over last weekend. But it was not to be.
Skibbereen is deemed to be one of the safest places in the world if a nuclear war breaks out.
Police investigating the Spanish terror attacks are continuing to hunt for a key suspect amid reports he may have fled over the border into France.
South Korean and US troops have begun annual drills that come after tensions rose over North Korea's two intercontinental ballistic missile tests last month.
The dimensions of Beijing and its minimalist architecture are alienating, and murals of China’s founding father, Mao Zedong, at odds with Prada stores, says Margaret Hickey.
he reflex impulse immediately after the final whistle yesterday was to describe this game as a classic. I was more inclined to think of it as an epic, writes Colm Cooper
Mayo’s decision to deploy Aidan O’Shea at full-back to man-mark Kieran Donaghy isn’t the first rabbit from the tactics hat that the westerners have employed 2017 – Lee Keegan, drawn All-Ireland quarter-final v Roscommon.
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Police in Arkansas have released a video of a forklift truck approaching a bank and ripping out its ATM machine.
Scarlett Johansson has urged audiences to demand more women-led films to pressure Hollywood bosses into ending the gender gap.
Forty years after the launch of the Voyager probes, their mission is winding down - and with it, the careers of the aging engineers who steer them across the universe, writes Kim Tingley
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