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US president Donald Trump made the case on Friday that he deserves to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on North Korea and Syria, but comp(...)

Ex-Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn’s chief defence lawyer, Motonari Otsuru, has resigned, his law office said Wednesday, in a stunning twist to the nearl(...)

Garry Ringrose offered a positive prognosis on the hamstring injury that kept him out of Ireland’s Six Nations Championship victory over Scotland at M(...)

A proper accounting for Brexit will, eventually, be written. For that narrative to be compelling it will have to be compiled by psychiatrists, behavio(...)

You may remember the Jetfoil. This was a craft which looked a bit like a ship with a massive water-ski stuck on the front. It was based on some adapta(...)

Novelist Kazuo Ishiguro has described his newly awarded knighthood as forming part of his “big love affair” with British culture. Ishiguro, whose nove(...)

What lies beneath will soon be visible. See enforced promotions of Quinn Roux and John Cooney, and the Irish openside flanker merry-go-round. England(...)

Toyota’s quarterly operating profit edged up as continued increase in sales in Asia, including China, offset lower sales in North America, its biggest(...)

Peter Altmaier, Germany’s economy minister, has called for the creation of a state investment fund that would step in to pre-empt foreign takeovers of(...)

Injury changes the landscape in sport. A month ago a rugby narrative pondered how Ireland could shoehorn James Ryan, Devin Toner, Iain Henderson and T(...)