The United Nations refugee agency urgently appealed to European governments yesterday to let two migrant rescue ships disembark more than 500 passengers who remain stranded at sea as countries bicker over who should take responsibility for them.
Canadian police have said they believe two teenage fugitives suspected of killing a woman and her boyfriend as well as another man took their own lives.
Mystery surrounds the death of Irish teenager Nora Quoirin after her naked body was discovered less than 2km from a resort in the Malaysian rainforest where she vanished 10 days ago.
Sperm can be separated to allow gender selection, a team of Japanese scientists have shown for the first time.
Jeffrey Epstein may have videotaped the rich and famous friends who visited his "Paedophile Island" retreat, it has emerged.
President Michael D Higgins and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar yesterday sent Ireland's condolences to the bereaved family of Nora Quoirin, whose body was found in the Malaysian rainforest 10 days after she disappeared.
One of the world's greatest opera singers has been accused of sexual harassment, with one woman claiming he had a superstition that "he had to be with a woman before a show" to calm his nerves.
