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A six-cone trullo in Bari, a desert-decor timeshare in Arizona, a surfer’s studio in the Basque country, a stone-built home in Corfu or a woodlands cottage outside Inistioge?

Chief executive of UnitedHealthcare was killed in front of a Manhattan hotel in ‘pre-planned, targeted attack’

It may be a little self-serving for Irish voices to be squawking about the potential threat to corporate tax take, but the worry is real

Are American pathologies the necessary price of economic dynamism?

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Fall of Aleppo to al-Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has delivered major blow to the government amid economic crisis caused by mismanagement and sanctions

To celebrate Food Month, Irish Times writers abroad reveal favourite foods and restaurants in their various postings

Hamas delegation travels to Cairo amid efforts to revive ceasefire talks

In advance of Trump’s inauguration, speculation grows over what territory he could press Ukraine to abandon for a peace agreement with Russia

Hizbullah has dropped demand that a ceasefire in Lebanon is contingent on ending fighting in Gaza

While Ireland appears vulnerable, particularly in relation to pharmaceuticals, aircraft would be an obvious way for the EU to hit back

US scientists who completed first global map of extreme heatwaves say striking new phenomenon is emerging across the planet

Amid pressure from petrostates, Donald Trump’s looming US presidency, curtailed activism and continuing implementation difficulties, the progress was better than nothing - but way short of what is required

Self-made billionaire’s story is in many ways an American fable - of a working-class girl who climbs her way to the top, then falls, only to rise again

‘Squeezed middle’ is real and ‘global economic environment is volatile’, Fine Gael leader says

Imprisoning of 45 former politicians and activists convicted under Beijing’s National Security Law could trigger the imposition of US visa restrictions on multiple Hong Kong officials

Evidence in three trials shows that even as the internet giant stored the world’s information, it created an office culture that tried to minimise its own

Stark warning from officials comes as all parties make expansive spending pledges ahead of election

Prague-born couple Carl and Gerty advanced knowledge of how the body produces and stores energy. They shared the 1947 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for this work.

Billionaires Linda McMahon and Howard Lutnick have been put forward by president-elect Donald Trump