US authorities are recommending that OJ Simpson and a co-defendant be sentenced to 18 years in prison for the gunpoint robbery and kidnapping of two sports memorabilia dealers.

Department store chain Debenhams saw shares hit a record low today amid fresh City fears over the group’s financial health in a tougher retail climate.

Former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson and her boyfriend Rick Salomon were granted a marriage licence in Las Vegas, according to Clark County's Marriage Licence Bureau.

COURT in southern China has jailed five workers following protests at a Taiwanese-owned factory making name-brand shoes, a labour rights group said yesterday.

Bray-based diagnostic manufacturer Trinity Biotech saw revenues up 6% to $16.4m (€13.84m) for the first quarter of 2004.