I am astounded to read Tony Diamond in today’s letters page (Irish Independent, November 7) describing the RTÉ tribute to Gay Byrne as “random and clumsy”. I sat through the show from beginning to end and thought it was very professionally guided throughout by Ryan Tubridy, and above all the love that everyone had for […]

For businesses cutting costs, axing jobs and wages is most often the simplest and most immediate quick fix. But when a company’s financial woes are persistent and it’s facing a structural shift in its sector that it still doesn’t quite know how to tackle, those cuts are only a plaster over a wound that needs […]

For much of the past decade, schoolchildren in Detroit were forced to endure conditions that can only be described as abhorrent. In many schools, classroom temperatures exceeded 90 degrees during the spring and summer, and neared freezing during frigid Michigan winters. Mold was endemic in some school buildings, and vermin was common in others. In […]

When asked what his father did for a living, my son explained to his kindergarten teacher that “he steals things, but it’s O.K. because he gets paid to do it.” He wasn’t wrong. I’m a hacker, and I run a team of hackers. We spend our days discovering ways to break into anything that can […]

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MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s government has no plans to participate in the rescue of Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Ltd (DHFL), according to two sources involved in talks on how to restructure the shadow bank’s near 1-trillion-rupee ($14 billion) debt. A consortium – led by Union Bank (UNBK.NS) and State Bank of India (SBI.NS) – […]

Today we have record levels of employment, rising incomes, falling poverty and deprivation, and a budget in surplus despite a difficult and unpredictable global economic environment. As a Government we want to improve the sustainability and resilience of the economy so we can secure and improve the living standards of Irish people into the future. […]

What is galling is how openly Prime Minister Viktor Orban does it, blaming the European Union for every imagined indignity or interference in Hungary’s affairs, while milking billions from Brussels to enrich his cronies and prop up his illiberal rule. He is not alone, as a Times investigation of the bloc’s lavish farm subsidies demonstrates […]

Early in 1919, two teams of British astronomers embarked on a journey to the far reaches of the planet to observe a solar eclipse. Nearly eight months later, on Nov. 6, 1919, the teams presented their findings before a packed audience of scientists in London. Their announcement changed forever how humans view the universe. The […]

MEXICO CITY — The seven-month-old baby Faith Marie Johnson survived hours without food and water in a bullet-ridden SUV in northern Mexico until her family members arrived. She had miraculously escaped the bullets flying around her. Her mother was among the three women and six children killed on Monday when gunmen ambushed their cars after […]