NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea is the successor to Commissioner James O’Neill —  set to lead the largest, and one of the oldest, police forces in the United States, Mayor Bill…

The DUGA over-the-horizon radar was one of the most important elements of the early warning system against an American nuclear attack on the USSR. More expensive to build than the…

After postponing what would have been the first all-female spacewalk in March, NASA announced on Friday that it will finally make history this month by sending two women on an…

Weeks after journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder inside Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, the kingdom’s crown prince attended the G20 summit in Argentina to an apparent cool reception. During the official…

The former French president Jacques Chirac, a self-styled affable rogue who had one of the longest political careers in Europe, has died aged 86. For several years he had suffered…

Work has started in Scotland to build what is described as the world’s most powerful floating tidal turbine. Companies based in Orkney, Dundee, Cupar and Motherwell are involved in the…

Greta Thunberg has set sail for New York, avoiding a plane journey for environmental reasons, but will her transatlantic trip really be 100% zero carbon? The Swedish climate activist, 16,…

Despite the remarkable advancements that have been made for women’s rights, one substantial pocket of society still lags behind the rest: film and television. It is no secret that there…

Two members of An Garda Síochána were awarded the ‘Merit Order Cross of the Guardia Civil’ in Mallorca, Spain for their work concerning organised crime. Among the honoured were  Detective…

When you travel around the world you discover that each nation has its own particular sense of fashion and style. You can see it in the highstreets and in the…

Tax relief and other fiscal measures announced by President Emmanuel Macron to try to calm nationwide protests will cost €8bn-€10bn, the French government has said. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe told…

Two nuns from a Southern Californian Catholic church are under suspicion of having embezzled school funding up to an amount of $500,000. Sister Mary Margaret Kreuper and Sister Lana Chang…

Last week, Rudy Giuliani, one of President Trump’s lawyers, tweeted an attack on Robert Mueller’s ongoing Russia investigation, accusing the special counsel of timing his filing just as the president…

A week has passed since US-born missionary John Allen Chau was killed with bow and arrows by an isolated community of hunter-gatherer people living on North Sentinel Island in the…

A New York City bridge is set to finally have the spelling of its name amended after it has been misspelt for more than 50 years. The Verrazzano-Narrows bridge which…

Following the discovery of a bug that exposed user’s passwords to the risk of being stolen, Twitter has recommended that all users change their password, as well as changing their…

A museum in the south of France has made the shocking discovery that over half of its collection of paintings believed to be originals are fakes. The Étienne Terrus Museum…

According to the latest Twitter Transparency Report, 1.2 million Twitter accounts have been suspended since August 2015 due to “promotion of terrorism”. The social media giant also said that between…

Tributes from across the world are being made in their droves to the late Stephen Hawking, aged 76, who passed away peacefully at his home in Cambridge earlier this morning….

The US Navy will name a new Navy destroyer ship in honour of Corporal Patrick “Bob” Gallagher from Mayo who was killed in Vietnam in 1967. New York Senator Charles…

The first production-ready flying car dubbed as “one of the safest flying vehicles on the planet” by its maker PAL-V is set to be available to buy from 2019 onwards….

The world’s most powerful rocket was launched into orbit from NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, on Tuesday by Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Millions watched breathlessly as the Falcon Heavy rocket soared…

In 1545 disaster struck Mexico’s Aztec nation when people started coming down with high fevers, headaches and bleeding from the eyes, mouth and nose. Death generally followed in three or…

A Toronto police officer has bought an apparent shoplifter the items the man was attempting to steal instead of arresting him – as he wanted them for a job interview….