BERNIE Murphy’s life was a rollercoaster featuring extreme poverty and celebrity status.

BERNIE Murphy caused a political sensation in June 1985 when he was elected an independent on Cork City Council, representing the north-central ward.

Revised rules for the treatment and military trials of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp are “too little and too late”, Britain’s attorney general said today, repeating his call to close the facility.

Osama bin Laden’s alleged bodyguard and chauffeur today becomes Guantanamo Bay’s first terror suspect brought before a US military commission that allows for secret evidence and no government appeals.

Sam Dash, the former chief Watergate counsel who became a household name in the 1970s died today after a lengthy illness, his family said. He was 79.

US President George W Bush yesterday designated six prisoners to become the first people who could be tried before military tribunals, drawing renewed criticism from defence lawyers of the secretive special courts.

Eight times married actress Zsa Zsa Gabor was falling in and out of a coma in a Los Angeles hospital today two days after he car hit a lamp poll as she set off on shopping trip.

Officials shut down 28 gates at San Francisco International Airport today after security guards detected explosives residue on a man's shoes, but the man disappeared into a crowd before guards could question him.