Dublin - European conservatives on Friday picked former Luxembourg prime minister Jean-Claude Juncker as their candidate to be the next European Commission president, igniting the centre-right grouping's campaign for European elections in May.Juncker comfortabl...

Dublin - Ukrainian opposition icon Yulia Tymoshenko, recently freed after a two-year jail term, on Thursday slammed a decision by Crimean lawmakers to vote on whether to join Russia as illegitimate and unconstitutional.The lawmakers said they would put the ques...

Dublin - Europe's Ryder Cup skipper Paul McGinley on Thursday named close friends Sam Torrance and Des Smyth as his initial vice-captains for September’s showdown against Tom Watson’s USA team at Gleneagles.McGinley chose the Irish Government buildings in D...

London - After receiving a record number of complaints, Irish bookmaker Paddy Power has been ordered to remove a controversial Oscar Pistorius betting ad which offered customers "money back if he walks."

Dublin - Allied Irish Banks, which is almost totally state-owned after a rescue, said on Wednesday that its losses after tax more than halved last year.AIB's net loss reduced to 1.597 billion euros ($2.193 billion) compared with 3.557 billion euros in 2012, sai...

Cypress Cove Nudist Resort in Kissimmee, Flor. has been baring it all for 50 years as of this year and one of the longest operating havens for those who prefer life in the buff keeps still going strong. One reasons is its ability to attract newbies.

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) might not form part of the cultural spectrum of Europe or North America; it doesn't mean the phenomenon doesn't exist there. Both continents are home to hundreds of thousands of victims and potential victims.

We should be thankful — thank God if you like — that the grotesque bill the Arizona legislature passed was vetoed today by Gov. Jan Brewer (R). She chastised her own party in doing so and saved the citizens of her state, all of them, from chaos.

Dublin - In the second of our series of whisky reviews we're going to look at Jameson Irish Whiskey, a beautifully smooth blended whisky.

Billionaire Donald Trump is heading into a fresh dispute over wind farms after plans were revealed to build 11 turbines near his new Irish golf course.

New research by scientists in Chicago has determined that the bitterly cold and snowy weather in the US and Canada, and the intense storms and rain across the UK and Western Europe, is being driven by a meandering jet stream, that may be here for good.

Media, motivated by their ethical standards, recently used words like "tragedy" to describe the killing of South African model Reeva Steenkamp. It is being revisited now because her life was taken a year ago and her killer has now broken his silence.

On the night of the Costa Concordia tragedy, it was first mate Roberto Bosio who gave the order to abandon ship. As Bosio told the court in the trial of the Captain Francesco Schettino, Schettino refused to.

A research group have made a significant breakthrough in the area of rechargeable battery technology. The team have developed a technology that more than doubles the capacity of lithium-ion battery anodes.

Dublin - Ireland's one-time richest man on Monday defended his decision to keep gambling on the success of the now defunct Anglo Irish Bank despite plunging share prices.

Dublin - Ireland put a huge dent in Welsh hopes of a record third Six Nations title in a row, with a clinical display in Dublin's Lansdowne Road on Saturday as they ran out 26-3 winners.

Uruguay's president, José “Pepe” Mujica, has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by the Dutch activist organization, the Drugs Peace Institute. Thanks to Mujica, in April, his country will be the first to completely legalize marijuana.

Dublin - The trial of senior executives at the bank that almost broke Ireland opened in Dublin on Wednesday, beginning what is expected to be one of the longest trials in Irish legal history.

A new online poll of heart attack and stroke victims conducted by the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation has found that over half of the respondents are not making the changes needed to ensure their health. The reason? Poor motivation.

Dublin - Ryanair fell into an expected loss during its third quarter as lower fares and an unfavourable exchange-rate offset rising passenger numbers, the Irish no-frills airline said on Monday.The airline reported a loss after tax of 35.2 million euros ($47.