THE National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) has appointed receivers to 16 assets linked to debts of up to €1.5 billion held by high-profile property developer Paddy Kelly — once one of the country’s wealthiest property tycoons.

THE National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) has appointed Kieran Wallace of KPMG as statutory receiver over seven properties which operate as hotels and will continue to trade as normal, KPMG disclosed yesterday.

WITH his predecessor’s term doomed by a sex scandal, New York Governor David Paterson came clean about his own skeletons just hours after assuming office by acknowledging he had affairs with several women, including a state employee.

A BRITISH man was killed and two British women injured when a gunman opened fire on tourists in Jordan yesterday.

JORDAN introduced strict security measures aimed at foreigners yesterday and said it was drafting the country’s first anti-terror legislation to prevent further attacks like last week’s triple hotel bombings.

Three brothers of a failed Iraqi suicide bomber had been killed by US forces, it was reported today.

Police have arrested an Iraqi woman would-be suicide bomber who failed to detonate her explosives inside one of Amman’s three bombed hotels, Jordanese officials announced today in a dramatic breakthrough in the case.

Iraq’s defence minister today attacked Syria for letting militants train on its soil for attacks in Iraq.

Jordan’s King Abdullah II today threatened to crack down on supporters of terrorists following this week’s triple hotel bombings that killed at least 57 people.

Moustapha Akkad, the Syrian-born producer of the Halloween horror films, died today from injuries sustained in the triple hotel bombings in Amman, Jordan.

Thousands of Jordanians rallied in the capital and other cities shouting “Burn in hell, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi!” a day after three deadly hotel bombings that killed at least 59 people.

US President George Bush today condemned the hotel bombings in Jordan, saying the attackers defiled Islam and the United States would help bring those responsible to justice.

Police in New York have stepped up patrols of hotels in Manhattan as a precaution following the suicide bombings of three hotels in the Jordanian capital of Amman.

Suicide bombers carried out nearly simultaneous attacks on three US-based hotels in the Jordanian capital last night, killing at least 57 people and wounding at least 115 in an al-Qaida-style assault on the Arab kingdom with close ties to the United States and a border with Iraq.

At least 53 people were now believed killed and more than 300 injured after explosions rocked three hotels in the Jordanian capital Amman today.

A major hotel group today announced plans to open a four-star hotel in Belfast city centre.

Two leading names in the travel industry were today bought for $1.1bn (€822,900) – the second major UK deal by US giant Cendant this month.

Tourists were ordered to evacuate part of the Florida Keys today as two tropical storms took aim at the US state as they strengthened,

A New York hotel that overcharged stranded travellers for rooms after the September 11 terrorist attacks has agreed to pay a $9,500 (£6,000) penalty, state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said.