He’d won over the judges but Danny O’Connor’s face and entire demeanour seemed more like a swollen tribute to some sort of courageous defeat.

If you don’t back up your digital pictures, there’s a good chance you’ll lose them to a malfunction or hackers. Unfortunately, using sites such as Facebook and Instagram may give rise to privacy issues. So what are the best options, asks John Hearne

Tiger Woods was thrilled with how he hit the ball on his first day back from injury, but his former caddie Steve Williams had even more reason to smile.

A bomb tore through a bar in a military barracks in Nigeria’s restive Muslim north, killing 10 people just hours after a southern Christian president was inaugurated.

An offshore oil rig has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, west of the site of the April blast that caused the massive oil spill, coast guards said today.

IT’S THE sort of thing a sulky child might say: “I didn’t want to go to Russia anyway”.

Pop star-turned-sitcom secretary Britney Spears has been offered a job working as a real receptionist for animal rights group People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (PETA).

Security officers are out in force for the Algerian election after a recent surge in violence.

An American filmmaker who was imprisoned for nearly two months in Iraq by the US military before being cleared and freed is trying to secure the release of an Iraqi man he met in captivity.

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US TROOPS urged civilians to flee Fallujah yesterday and launched air strikes on the rebel city ahead of an assault seen as critical to attempts to pacify Iraq before January elections.

Venezuela’s largest labour group has threatened to call a general strike to oust President Hugo Chavez, as hundreds of thousands marched through the streets of Caracas to oppose his rule.

A former immigration lawyer has been sentenced to death in Pennsylvania for killing five people in a racially motivated shooting spree last year.