Savita Halappanavar (left of photo) with children at Galway's St Patrick's day parade.

Everyone used to call her “the girl with the diamond smile”, and not just because she had a tiny diamond in one of her teeth. Savita Halappanavar was (...)

Nicolas Jaar: "The real beauty in music is finding something sacred deep inside"

Nicolas Jaar makes music to dream to. You can hear it in the rich, deep, complex and atmospheric span of his debut album Space Is Only Noise. You can (...)

The walls are coming down. I stand up from my desk and rip down the notes from above it. Irish: done. I gleefully tear at the Sellotape, scrunch the p(...)

The woman, who had travelled to India to work for a local non-governmental organisation, is in a Kolkata hospital where she was admitted on Saturday.   Photograph: Kolkatan/Wikimedia

The police remand of a businessman accused of raping a 21-year-old Irish charity worker in India’s eastern city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) earlier(...)

Women protest against sex attacks in India. Photograph: Getty Images

A court in India’s eastern city of Kolkata has further remanded a man in custody on charges of drugging and raping a 21-year-old Irish charity worker (...)

Women protest in the streets of New Delhi against sex crimes. Photograph: Getty Images

An American tourist was gang-raped by a group of men in a hill resort in northern India, police said today, in what is the latest in a series of attac(...)

Police in India’s eastern city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) arrested a local businessman (35) over the weekend on charges of allegedly drugging and (...)

Despite record youth unemployment levels throughout much of the continent, several major firms operating in Europe still claim they are facing a massi(...)

Aoibheann and Mouzawak

Beirut exists today as a crumbling, bullet-ridden melting pot of exquisite food and enchanting, endlessly hospitable people. The urban landscape is un(...)

India’s economic growth began a feeble recovery at the tail end of a 2012 fiscal year that saw the slowest expansion in a decade, providing little rel(...)

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