Purges in King Vajiralongkorn’s court have electrified the normally anodyne royal gazette

Ceann Comhairle cites fears over ‘health and safety risks’ after incident on Thursday night

Fracked gas has greater emissions footprint than coal, Oireachtas committee hears

Pupils learn how to make good decisions, deal with stress and feel good about themselves

Ovarian freezing to gene editing: Babies could be made very differently in 21st century

How Lego toys are going to educate blind and sighted children through play

Re-issued in cinemas next week some 55 years after its initial theatrical run, Dr Strangelove is arguably the most improbable comedy ever made

Tiny sensors with tinier legs, stamped out of silicon wafers, could one day soon help fix your smartphone battery or study your brain

Amazon Web Services aims to be the world’s most customer-centric IT provider

US president will extend deadline and plans to meet Xi Jinping to finalise agreement

Data from Nasa’s Cassini spacecraft provides new information on the gas planet

UCC and Oxford jointly hire top quantum scientist, capitalising on uncertainty in UK

Mystery still surrounds death of noted Catholic writer in Thailand 50 years ago

Switzerland stays top while the Republic remains in 10th place overall in new report

Beijing condemns ‘bullying’ by ‘gang of hoodlums’ in escalating trade war

Report sheds light on North Korean announcement that it will suspend testing

Details emerge for meeting where peace treaty and denuclearisation to be discussed

When it comes to effective communication and persuasion, emails and texts are no substitute for an old-fashioned face-to-face conversation, according to recent research

Ex-Black Panther turned sociologist addressed GAA Summer School on Sport and Politics

Reputation and jobs at risk if focus remains on silicon chip as world moves to quantum computing

Prof Séamus Davis’s study moves science a step closer to ‘holy grail’ of quantum physics

Seán Moran: GAA Summer School on ‘Sport and Politics’ promises to be fascinating

Nicole Dennis-Benn’s first novel shines a light on tourism’s underbelly

Denis Gilevskiy is first Irish player in British Junior Squash Open finals since the 1920s

Scientists make breakthrough in the study of the Fast Radio Burst phenomenon

Chuck Feeney, ‘the anti-Trump’, has written his final Atlantic Philanthropies cheque

Reno was one of the highest-profile figures in Bill Clinton’s administration from 1993-2001

Internal review finds commission influenced staff; Lagarde rejects ‘premise’ of report

Scientists say not to panic as ‘2013 TX68’ will miss planet by at least 24,000km on Sunday

When you’re the eldest in the family, you start off life in ‘eat all you want’ setting

Researchers have unseccessfully attempted to breed in-vitro dogs since 1970s

Taiwanese leader Ma Ying-jeou denies aim of meeting is to improve his election chances

By 2016 philanthropist Chuck Feeney will have given €1.5 billion to education projects in Ireland. A weighty new photographic book illustrates his generosity here and abroad

Companies could be compelled to reduce levels if they fail to do so voluntarily

UK watchdog investigates companies that may have paid for web reviews

Elizabeth McClean and Inish O’Doherty came home from US for Christmas wedding in Ireland

Singapore named best country in World Economic Forum survey

The 42km journey completed in just ... 11 years 2 months

Dutch academics want to encourage research into what animals say in recordings