All last week US State Department officials made a concerted effort to portray the annual UN General Assembly as a productive week of high-level meetings which cemented bonds and mitigated conflicts. But the muted TV sets in the hotel rooms where officials briefed reporters highlighted a different story.
Jacques Chirac, who died last Thursday aged 86, fulfilled a lifetime's ambition in 1995 when he became president of France; he had previously served two terms as prime minister and 18 years as mayor of Paris.
Barron Hilton, who died, aged 91, on September 19, inherited the leadership of the global hotel empire founded by his father and bolstered its fortunes by expanding into owning Las Vegas casinos.
Raymond Higgins spends weekdays working as an architect in one of London's most prestigious firms, and at weekends he treks the 500 miles to his native Roscommon to tend his award-winning potatoes.
Raymond Higgins spends weekdays working as an architect in one of London's most prestigious firms, and at weekends he treks the 500 miles to his native Roscommon to tend his award-winning potatoes.
Elon Musk has unveiled a SpaceX spacecraft designed to carry a crew and cargo to the moon, Mars or anywhere else in the solar system and land back on Earth perpendicularly.
The last month at Lyons has focused on selecting lambs for slaughter and setting up for breeding for lambing in 2020. This year we tried a new rearing approach with some of our triplet lambs whereby they were weaned onto Redstart.
