The Roots author’s follow-up novel Queen traces five generations of a second branch of his ancestry back to a town in Co Monaghan

The celebration is both a tribute to the pioneers who revolutionised surgery and an opportunity to appreciate the silent guardians of the operating room

Fraser served as the country’s most senior civil servant for more than a decade; meanwhile, Geraldine Byrne Nason will remain as ambassador in Washington

Hamas announcement over missing bodies of hostages raises immediate risk to continuation of ceasefire

Internal divisions stopped EU from putting any real pressure on Israel

Former US president left office in January after he dropped his bid for re-election six months earlier

New trade steps were president’s reaction to China dramatically expanding rare earth element export controls

Doctor said he evaluated president’s cardiac age, which was about 14 years younger than chronological age

As US president attempts to send in the national guard, residents and officials resist what they call authoritarian over-reach

As a sovereign state and member of the EU, the country must preserve its own right to regulate

When Mary-Alice Wildasin and her mother, from Maine, set about researching their Irish ancestors, they found a lot more than a branch of the family tree

O’Connell introduced him as the ‘black O’Connell of the United States’

We live in siloed information ecosystems where an ideological figure who has the ear of the US president can be unknown to huge chunks of the population

Wang rejects western analysis that China’s authoritarian system will prevent it achieving tech supremacy

US secretary of state says war in Palestinian enclave not yet ended despite agreement on parts of Trump peace plan

Move comes as US government says border patrol agents there shot and injured woman while firing at someone

Catherine Connolly’s horror at the remilitarisation of Europe is understandable, but she has taken the wrong lesson from the history of the 1930s

Binyamin Netanyahu says he hopes to announce release of all hostages in ‘coming days’

Presidential library director says he was told he ‘could no longer be trusted with confidential information’

Beijing appears more focused on boosting growth than caution – for now