A journalist with state-run Russian television has been found dead in a Moscow apartment with a belt around his neck and numerous stab wounds.

NICK LEESON said the revelation that a single trader lost €4.9 billion at French bank Societe Generale proved financial institutions had not learned their lessons.

Jack Bauer will take on global warming in the hit show 24 as the series aims to become the first to make its season finale “carbon neutral”, Twentieth Century Fox said.

A US software billionaire who won a junior cosmonaut contest as a child in Communist-ruled Hungary returned from a dream voyage to the international space station today, riding a Russian capsule to a soft landing on the Kazakh steppe along with a Russian and an American who spent seven months in orbit.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has told his newly-elected Assembly party of 24 that there can be no re-negotiation of the Good Friday Agreement.