Newsround: What Thursday's papers say

The search for Rescue 116 black box continues and Enda Kenny denies calling Donald Trump a racist

The main headlines from today's newspapers

The top stories in Thursday's newspapers:

THE IRISH TIMES

- The painstaking search for the three missing Irish Coast Guard helicopter crew and the black box recorder is continuing off the Mayo coast. The paper reports that a "faint chirp" was detected in 40m of water up to 60m from Blackrock, 13km wet of Blacksod. There is no confirmation that the device is with the missing aircraft.

- A 10-week-old baby girl from Co Louth is in a critical condition after suffering unexplained life-threatening injuries. Gardai are now trying to establish if the child fell or if she met with foul play.

- Taoiseach Enda Kenny has rejected a claim by former Ukip leader Nigel Farage that he should apologise to US president Donald Trump for calling him a racist. But Kenny insists: "I did not refer to the person, the now president, as being racist. My comment was in respect of his language."

- In its business section, the paper reports that Ardagh shares soar by almost 20% as the glass and metal containers giant floated on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday, valuing the company at $5.32 billion. The sharesjumped to as high as $22.74 within hours of the group's executive chairman Paul Coulson ringing the opening bell of the NYSE.

IRISH INDEPENDENT

- The paper also leads with the Rescue 116 tragedy and reports that the probe is now centering on whether an "electrical failure" caused the helicopter to crash. Investigators are also looking into the possibility the helicopter could have hit the lighthouse at Blackrock, six miles off the coast of Mayo.

- The main suspect in the murder of Irish backpacker Danielle McLaughlin, from Buncrana, Co Donegal, in Goa has allegedly admitted to the crime. The paper reports hat it is believed she tried to fight off her attacker, as a police report described how there were nail injuries on the body of the suspect.

- Taoiseach Enda Kenny has claimed that while Donald Trump uses racist language it "doesn't follow at all" that he is actually racist. Kevin Doyle reports from Washington that Kenny indicated will not apologise for his comments just hours before his first meeting with the new US president.

- In its business section, the paper reports that Facebook is to double its staff after signing a deal for an additional building in Dublin. The move means that almost 10,000 of Dublin city's industrial jobs will soon be provided by two companies - Facebook and Google.

FINANCIAL TIMES

- The paper says that British Chancellor Philip Hammond's budget "unravelled" yesterday when Theresa May pulled the plug on his plan to raise taxes on the self-employed. The prime minister is understood to have bowed to pressure from Conservative MPs and informed Hammond just after 8am yesterday that the £500 million annual rise in national insurance contributions must be axed.

- The US central bank has increased short-term interest rates for the third time since the financial crisis, stepping up the pace of tightening as policy-makers grow ever more confident that the recovery will lift inflation.

- The British unemployment rate gas dropped to 4.7 per cent - the lowest since 1975. But workers face a renewed squeeze on living standards as wage growth weakens and inflation bites.

- German chancellor Angela Merkel is threatening to ban campaigning Turkish politicians after Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused authorities of using Nazi tactics.

IRISH EXAMINER

- Divers and robots will today try to retrieve the black box of Irish Coast Guard helicopter R116 from the ocean where it is thought to lie at a depth of up to 40 metres. The paper reports that a signal from the recorder device was detected at at 4pm yesterday.

- The paper reports that consultant gynaecologists at Cork University Hospital (CUMH) are angry that Health Minister Simon Harris has postponed a meeting to discuss resolving "appalling waiting times for women". In a strongly worded statement, the consultants said that Harris was effectively adding to waiting times by forcing the re-scheduling of patient appointments.

- The grieving mother of Danielle McLaughlin has spoken of her heartbreak after her daughter's body was found dumped in a field in an Indian tourist resort. The paper reports that a local criminal has been arrested and appeared in court in connection with the killing of the 28-year-old.

- Philomena Lee, whose life story was turned into an Oscar nominated movie, has said she is "appalled" by the revelations at Tuam, Co Galway, and said that all institutions that dealt with unmarried women need to be examined.