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Purdue Pharma, the pharmaceutical company that makes OxyContin, is owned by the billionaire Sackler family. Photograph: Justin Lane/EPA
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma pleads guilty to criminal charges

Purdue Pharma has pleaded guilty to criminal charges over the handling of its addictive prescription painkiller OxyContin, capping a deal with federal(...)

A stroller is carried down the stairs at the 53rd Street & Seventh Avenue station in New York on Tuesday. Photograph: Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times
Mother with baby dies after falling down New York subway stairs
  • US
  • January 30, 2019, 07:13

A young mother has died after falling down stairs at a Manhattan subway station while holding her one-year-old daughter. Malaysia Goodson, from Stamf(...)

Jean Pierre Bars and his wife Maria Harte Bars during consultation at the Dublin Neurological Institute. Marie has a gene mutation which caused a genetic disorder with symptoms of both Parkinsons and Dementia. Photograph Nick Bradshaw
The faces and brains behind the doors of the Dublin Neurological Institute

It has been 23 years since Frenchman Jean-Pierre Bars attended a job interview in Greenwich, Connecticut, for a restaurant manager position. Sitting a(...)

Howard Millar: last year joined Stellwagen as chief operating officer and as as chief executive of one of its divisions, Stellwagen Capital. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
Howard Millar parts ways with Stellwagen Group

Howard Millar and two other executives are leaving Irish- and US-based aviation leasing specialist Stellwagen Group in a surprise move. Mr Millar, Ry(...)

Gene Wilder secured his place in Irish cinema history as the star of Waris Hussein’s 1970 comedy ’Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx’. Photograph: Mychele Daniau/AFP/Getty Images
Hollywood comic actor Gene Wilder dies aged 83

Gene Wilder, one of cinema’s great neurotics, has died of complications from Alzheimer’s disease at the age of 83. Wilder had worked only erratically (...)