11 missing after Colombia building collapse
Eleven people are missing after a high-rise apartment building collapsed in Colombia.
Eleven people are missing after a high-rise apartment building collapsed in Colombia.
Gunmen have kidnapped a team of seven workers from the International Committee of the Red Cross after stopping their convoy early today along a roadside in northern Syria, a spokesman said.
The Eiffel Tower has been evacuated after a telephone bomb threat was made today.
India began has begun sorting through miles of wreckage after Cyclone Phailin roared ashore, flooding towns and villages and destroying tens of thousands of thatch homes, but officials said massive evacuation efforts had spared the east coast from widespread loss of life.
Police officers in Los Angeles have long faced accusations of institutional racism, but now it appears their dogs may be unjustly discriminatory, too.
The Statue of Liberty has reopened to the public after New York state agreed to shoulder the costs of running the site during the US federal government shutdown.
At least 64 people were killed and more than 100 injured in a stampede after a bridge collapsed near a remote Hindu temple in India's central state of Madhya Pradesh, a senior police official said on Sunday.
Detectives have solved the decades-old mystery of "Baby Hope," a little girl whose body was discovered inside a picnic cooler beside a Manhattan highway in 1991, and arrested a relative of the child after he admitted he sexually assaulted and smothered her.
Republicans and Democrats in Congress have failed to make any significant progress towards a deal even as a threatened default by the Treasury crept uncomfortably closer and a partial US government shutdown neared the end of its second week.
Join Gareth Naughton from 9.15pm tonight for all gossip and reaction to the latest episode of the gripping crime show Love/Hate
On the Monday morning after his son Donal appeared on The Saturday Night Show, Fionnbar Walsh got a call at home from a Kathleen Lynch. This woman, whom Fionnbar presumed was from the HSE, was wondering if Donal would record a video talking directly to his peers about suicide.
Join X Factor's Melanie McCabe along with Independent.ie's Brian O'Reilly as the X Factor's first live show kicks off.
Professor Donal O'Shea on the measures he believes the government should take in the upcoming budget.
Since the ‘Age of Austerity’ began, society’s most vulnerable have been hit hardest.
The owner of family business Timber Trove has fought to stay solvent throughout the depths of the financial crisis and is terrified that Budget 2014 may set them back again.
THE parents of inspirational teenager Donal Walsh said they could hear their son's message to appreciate life at the funeral for Limerick girl Chloe Kinsella who tragically took her own life last week.
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A statement of affairs is supposed to be a kind of last will and testament of a bust business.
The Eiffel Tower has been evacuated after a telephone bomb threat was made.
The accepted version of events surrounding the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has "significantly changed", detectives have said.
Police dug up the bodies on Thursday after receiving a tip-off last week about an “incident” alleged to have happened at the property in the late 1990s.
Republicans and Democrats in Congress have failed to make any significant progress towards a deal even as a threatened default by the Treasury crept uncomfortably closer and a partial US government shutdown neared the end of its second week.
Former US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has called for a “sensible adult conversation” on the boundaries of state surveillance that were revealed by whistle-blower Edward Snowden, who leaked secret NSA files earlier this year.
Police officers in Los Angeles have long faced accusations of institutional racism, but now it appears their dogs may be unjustly discriminatory, too.
SYRIAN doctors and activists condemned the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, saying it had handed a victory to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
Al-Qa'ida and other militant Islamist groups fighting the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad killed scores of civilians, including women and children, after a battle in the north-west of the country, Human Rights Watch has said in a report.
US defence lawyers have joined the growing row over the imprisonment at sea of a Libyan associate of Osama bin Laden, demanding access and questioning why he had not been brought before a judge immediately.
Egypt's deposed president, Mohammed Morsi, is to go on trial next month accused of inciting the killing of protesters, a mirror image of the case against his predecessor Hosni Mubarak.
Two Canadians freed at the weekend after being held in Egypt for more than six weeks without charge are still barred from flying home, their lawyer said on Monday.
Suspected Islamist militants hit the northern Malian city of Gao with artillery fire on Monday, in the first attack on the insurgents' former stronghold in months, city residents, military and local government officials said.
India began has begun sorting through miles of wreckage after Cyclone Phailin roared ashore, flooding towns and villages and destroying tens of thousands of thatch homes, but officials said massive evacuation efforts had spared the east coast from widespread loss of life.
At least 64 people were killed and more than 100 injured in a stampede after a bridge collapsed near a remote Hindu temple in India's central state of Madhya Pradesh, a senior police official said on Sunday.
A Chinese man has amputated his own leg using nothing more than a saw and a fruit knife, after doctors told him an infection had left him just one month to live.
A landmark town centre bandstand is up for sale - or, there again, maybe not.
The kidneys of a five-week-old baby have been successfully transplanted into a woman dying of renal failure, making the infant the youngest organ donor in Britain.
A 260-year-old violin used as a concert instrument by acclaimed soloist Leila Josefowicz is set to fetch up to £150,000 at auction.
What we need at this stage is a coup d'etat and a form of Irsh guillotine.
Absolutely right. Hopefully he will promote a few more Fr Reillys who have the moral courage to proclaim the gospel of life.
With Captain Kenny,Team Ireland's chances of success look remote,especially since he keeps losing the ball..to Germany.It's that Kenny Jinx thing.
The bold new collection for Specsavers opticians from Paris-based fashion designer Jørgen Simonsen has some amazing new designer glasses.
It’s Back to School time, but parents have been warned that ‘eight may be too late’ for an eye test. So Specsavers opticians are reminding parents to keep an eye on their children’s eyesight, to reduce the likelihood of problems in the classroom.
Specsavers stores throughout Ireland are upping the ante on promoting the fundamental links between good eyesight, visibility and road safety with the Drive Safe campaign.
What started out as one man, a laptop and a handful of memory cards has grown into the electronic gadgets company, Memory Man, who carry over 400 products and ship over 1,500 items monthly.
Irish designers, complete showrooms, cutting edge accent pieces and classic sofas and dining sets … the new season home interiors collection, just launched at Harvey Norman is full of surprises.
Coeliac disease is a condition where someone has sensitivity to gluten, the protein found in wheat, rye and barley.
The movement towards online shopping shows no sign of slowing down with Retail Ireland predicting online sales to grow to €21 billion by 2017*. The good news for businesses who want to retail online is that it has never been easier to build a website and begin trading online.
Being diagnosed with coeliac disease can come as a relief to many people – they finally have an explanation for how they have been feeling
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