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Which nations measure up on human rights?

We talk about 'coercive interrogation' instead of what it really is: torture," former Irish President Mary Robinson told participants at the World Justice Forum in Vienna.

Scientists accelerate planet quest

Observers discussed the state of their search for extrasolar planets, as worlds beyond the solar system are known, during the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting in the Northern Irish city of Belfast this week. Sting operation ...

Tim Russert

Irish America magazine has named him one of the top 100 Irish Americans in the country and he was selected as a Fellow of the Commission of European Communities. Russert was born in Buffalo, New York on May 7, 1950. He graduated from Canisius High ...

Bahamas: Beaches, boats and blarney

They say the Irish have the gift of the gab; well there’s not one in this Celtic clan whose birthstone isn’t a rock named Blarney. To our family, arguing is a sport, storytelling an art and laughing a right. And since it’d been literally years ...

Got money? You’ll need a lot to buy this milk

The dessert is a gold leaf Italian cheesecake flavored with Irish cream, served with a mango and pomegranate compote and a foamy champagne sauce. It's also decorated with a chocolate carving of a fisherman clinging to a stilt — an age-old local ...