Reduced March milk cheques have brought home to dairy farmers how bad the dairy slump is, said ICMSA’s dairy farmers spokesman, Gerald Quain.

The great players enjoy more space and more time than the mere mortals and that goal summed up what Villa can expect this year in this league.

Around a million people and more than 40 world leaders - including the Taoiseach Enda Kenny - are expected to take part in a rally in Paris, after 3 days of terror, that left 17 people dead.

The US is struggling to fully realise the vision that civil rights leader Martin Luther King described in his ‘I have a dream’ speech 50 years ago, as the goal of economic security for all remains elusive, President Barack Obama said yesterday.

North Korea is to blame for last month’s cyberattacks on the websites of South Korean media companies and the president and prime minister’s offices, a South Korean investigation concluded today.

A Moscow appeals court has freed one of the jailed Pussy Riot members but upheld the two-year prison sentence for the two others.

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PHILIP Hobbs feels conditions at Newbury today should be ideal for Fingal Bay as the exciting youngster puts his unbeaten record on the line in the Bathwick Tyres Challow Novices’ Hurdle.

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Bobs Worth further strengthened Nicky Henderson’s Festival hand with an excellent display in the Neptune Investment Management Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham.

CORK’s backdoor rehabilitation continues to progress in a brisk manner after they fashioned their latest success in Wexford Park yesterday.

THE recent March for Life in Dublin received little or no coverage in the Irish Examiner despite the fact that upwards of 5,000 people participated in it.

The Willie Mullins-trained Glencove Marina, who had shot into the list of major Irish hopes for the Cheltenham Festival in March, has been ruled out of racing for at least the rest of the season.

HARPER Valley will have one more run before before bidding for glory in the JCB Triumph Hurdle in March.

McCreevy explained he was objecting to Haughey’s leadership because there had been a lowering of political standards, mishandling of the economy, as well as the party’s failure to secure a majority in two successive general elections.

Republicans took to the streets today today to demand full disclosure on any state role in murders and collusion during the North’s Troubles.

ENDA BOLGER believes class act Royal Auclair could be the one to foil Spot Thedifference's attempt to win the Sporting Index Chase for the third year running at Cheltenham today.

Gunfire erupted and casualties were reported at a Kyrgyz prison today when riot police entered to restore order.

More than 2,000 unarmed supporters of a presidential candidate who was denied registration in next month’s Kyrgyzstan election stormed the Kyrgyz government headquarters today.

Hundreds of people, some throwing stones, broke into Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court in the capital Bishkek today and evicted supporters of five losing parliamentary candidates who had occupied the building for more than a month.

Soldiers opened fire on thousands of protesters in eastern Uzbekistan today after demonstrators stormed a jail to free 23 men accused of Islamic extremism, while a protest leader said about 50 people may have been killed hours earlier in clashes with police and security forces.

Soldiers opened fire on protesters in eastern Uzbekistan today and killed at least three after demonstrators stormed a jail to free 23 men accused of Islamic extremism, witnesses said.

Outrage over the terror trial of 23 Muslims exploded into broader unrest in eastern Uzbekistan today when armed protesters stormed a jail to free the defendants and thousands of people swarmed the streets, clashing with police.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, accompanied by 20 survivors of the Holocaust and their grandchildren, joined thousands of people today in an emotional memorial for the victims of the Nazis at the biggest World War II death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe today called a general election on March 31 amid fears tat voting polling could be as violent and flawed as the last vote.

A South African arms dealer, linked to Margaret Thatcher's son Mark, faces the possibility of execution by firing squad as oil-rich Equatorial Guinea today weighed verdicts for 19 alleged mercenaries and others at the end of a coup trial.

The Parades Commission has imposed severe restrictions on an Orange Order march due to take place in Co Antrim village of Dunloy on Easter Sunday.

European Union foreign ministers will consider imposing sanctions on Zimbabwe tomorrow unless the government of President Robert Mugabe ends political violence and takes steps to ensure March elections are free and fair.