Four people gunned down in the French Alps had each been shot twice in the head, prosecutors have revealed today.

French police officers are arriving in Britain today to find out more about the victims of the multiple shooting in the Alps.

Police investigating the murder of four people in the French Alps have sent four officers to Britain to find out more about victim Saad al Hilli’s life.

Nearly 24 hours later, there is still no idea why three members of a British family were gunned down in an act of “savagery” in the French Alps.

IT sounds a bit provocative, to say the least, to hear Brian Lenihan tell us the economy won’t be fixed by driving trucks into the gates of Leinster House.

EVER since he was a young student, John Kerry wanted to follow in the footsteps of his hero, John F Kennedy.

KENMARE-BASED CNG Travel Group yesterday signed a strategic partnership with Japanese conglomerate Sojitz and reported losses of $2.6m for 2003.

Airline group Bmi said it halved pre-tax losses to £9.8m last year despite the impact of the Sars virus and the Iraq war.

Indirectly challenging a US argument for war on Iraq, the UN atomic agency said today that the discovery of parts from Baghdad’s original nuclear weapons programme appears to back its stance that the project was not reactivated.

A MAJOR upturn in the media business and the economy in general was predicted by influential British advertising and media commentator Martin Sorrell in Dublin yesterday.

Tony Blair today embarked on a last-minute round of telephone diplomacy as hopes for a second resolution on Iraq began to fade and a second Gulf war loomed.