A US lawyer who aided a deception that resulted in almost $2m (€1.3m) of a Wicklow businessman's money being misappropriated was sentenced to 30 months' jail and ordered to repay nearly $3m (€2m).

Following weeks of intense media speculation, Levi Johnston's first set of Playgirl pics, featuring the Hockey player and Palin scourge posing on a Manhattan rooftop and getting sudsy in the shower, hit the online publication's website early this...

Sen. Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who heads the powerful  Senate Armed Services Committee that will investigate the deadly Fort Hood shootings, calls them an act of terrorism.While some officials, including fellow Democrat President Obama in the early post-shooting hours, have urged caution in …

A SON of Maurice Ahern, the former Fianna Fail councillor, died suddenly yesterday. Dylan Ahern, who canvassed for his father and for his uncle, former taoiseach Bertie Ahern, in election campaigns, was a keen athlete and shared a love of running with his father. They both ran with Clonliffe Harrier …

Le Théââtre ! Un milieu qui ne m'est pas familier. J'ai bien joué quelques pièces de patronage étant jeune, et admiré les costumes de Donald Cardwell et les décors de Roger Harth sur le petit écran familial. Mais je pensais que ce n'était pas trop pour moi, c'est élitiste, trop cher, sûrement e …

Two cars collided head-on on a divided highway in Canada Saturday afternoon, killing four people with a child the only survivor, police said. The crash occurred shortly after noon on Highway 2 near Nanton, Alberta, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police...

FUGITIVE solicitor Michael Lynn did not turn up at his father-in-law's funeral Mass yesterday.

The father of 9/11 hero Todd Beamer, like many of us, is appalled by Eric Holders performance this week and by his inability to answer probing questions by senators: The attorney general seemed bewildered in the face of these inquiries. Recurring themes in his responses included I think, and I cant …

The smuggler identified as Saab Dayal alias Saabu was arrested when he was filling the drugs in packets in Kathua town, about 80 km from here, yesterday, they said. The accused was a vegetable seller and used to sell charas...

Billige Dokus statt teurer News: Diesen Sparkurs will ProSiebenSat.1 seinem defizitären Nachrichtenkanal N24 verordnen. Die Schließung des Kanals, die in Führungskreisen auch diskutiert wurde, scheint damit vom Tisch zu sein - fürs Erste zumindest.

They had been waiting for more than 24 hours, camped out on the pavements in a frigid Michigan chill. Stepping off her bus, in four-inch heels, black skirt and red blazer, came their heroine — clutching baby Trig. A roar went up, acclaiming the woman who they passionately believe is going to s …

Why does not a site that boasts on being a friend to the holiness Church of the Nazarene declare biblical convictions concerning Scripture and the bogus Emerging Church? One, of course, cannot expect that kind of bold declaration from the...

THE strength of the Garda Reserve increased to 500 members yesterday after a graduation ceremony at the Garda College in Templemore.

Oskar Lafontaine ist offenbar auf dem Weg der Genesung. Die Krebsoperation sei erfolgreich verlaufen, sagte ein Sprecher der Linken-Fraktion. Gregor Gysi rechnet fest mit einer Rückkehr des Parteivorsitzenden in die Bundespolitik.

A man was shot in a northeast Harris County Wal-Mart parking lot during what appears to be an attempted robbery late Friday, authorities said. Deputies arrived at the Wal-Mart in the 9200 block of North Sam Houston Parkway East around...

Fairfield County's needy now need remember only the number 211 to get help...Trained information-and-referral specialists answer calls around the clock and connect callers to government agencies, private charities, churches and food pantries that dot Fairfield County.

THE FAS marking scandal has deepened, with a major training provider now being investigated over exam irregularities.

Rom Houbens Bewusstsein galt als erloschen, die Ärzte schrieben ihn ab. Tatsächlich war der Belgier nach einem schweren Autounfall zwar gelähmt, aber nicht komatös. Mehr als 20 Jahre lang musste der heute 46-Jährige machtlos seine Fehlbehandlung ertragen, bis der Irrtum schließlich auffiel.

Saturday's vote will determine whether debate can go forward on Majority Leader Harry Reid's 2,074-page bill to dramatically remake the U.S. health care system over the next decade. (Read on Source)