Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Monday she had briefed China's leader Xi Jinping on the city's protests. China will continue to support and offer favorable economic policies for the financial hub, reuters quoted her as saying. Speaking in Beijing after a closed-door meeting with Xi, Lam said she believed the level of violence...
Heiress Tamara Ecclestone - the daughter of former Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone - has been left "shaken" after a reported £50 million (€60m) worth of gems were stolen from her London home.
The US has a favourite tool for bullying non-compliant nations: sanctions. Sanctions inflict considerable suffering, even death, on ordinary people in targeted nations. Yet those defiant nations persist and resist. A recent opinion piece in the Washington Post proposing a new oil-for-food scheme, this time in Venezuela, surprisingly acknowledges that sanctions “can also end up...
Protests are intensifying in India over a law giving citizenship to non-Muslims who entered the country illegally to flee religious persecution in neighbouring nations.
Factories are under pressure to explain a beef price gap which continues to widen between Ireland and its major markets in Ireland and the EU.
World chess champion Magnus Carlsen may soon have another title to add to his collection – this time in fantasy football.
An Irish poultry farmer and food advocate is challenging Irish consumers to buy at least one item directly from a farmer this Christmas.
