The US military believes that five British security guards kidnapped in May in Baghdad are still alive, the No 2 American commander in Iraq said today.

Hundreds of Iraqi and US troops cordoned off sections of Baghdad’s Sadr City slum early today for a series of raids in an effort to find five Britons abducted from a nearby government building.

A MULTI-NATIONAL consultancy firm awarded government contracts worth millions of euro yesterday described as an “embarrassment” delays in filing its own accounts because of internal system failures.

50 new jobs are to be created in Dublin at a business and consulting firm. It was announced this evening

THREE brothers returned home yesterday after spending five months driving halfway round the world to raise €250,000 for the Cystic Fibrosis Association.