BORD Bia says it wants Irish pork producers to carve out a bigger market share in China, which it calls an "increasingly critical" region for the industry.
A man who was shot dead in a Berlin park may have been the victim of a Russian assassination, it is believed.
Italy's long-time rivals, the Five Star Movement and the Democratic Party, blamed each other as talks to form a government risked collapsing and throwing the country back on the road to early elections.
Iran's president has back-pedalled on possible talks with Donald Trump, saying the US president must first lift sanctions imposed on Tehran, otherwise a meeting would be a mere photo op.
A female Nasa astronaut has been branded as "controlling" and "not the person I married" by her estranged wife.
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said yesterday she had held talks about the protests gripping the city - but showed no signs of breaking the stalemate over the protesters' pro-democracy demands.
Drugs giant Johnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay $572m (€516m) for fuelling the opioid addiction crisis in Oklahoma.