Senior bankers will be presumed guilty until proven innocent under strict new rules proposed by British regulators seeking to hold individuals accountable for bank failures.

St Vincent’s Hospital was aware no bed was available for a suicidal man having homicidal thoughts when it transferred him on to his local mental health service for assessment, a consultant psychiatrist has claimed.

Scientists have hailed the “momentous” discovery of what appears to be the ‘God particle’ that gives matter mass and holds the fabric of the universe together.

Scientists may have finally tracked down the elusive “God particle” that gives matter mass and holds the physical fabric of the universe together.

Scientists working at the world’s biggest atom smasher plan to announce tomorrow that they have gathered enough evidence to show that the long-sought ‘God particle’ answering fundamental questions about the universe almost certainly does exist.

A nephew of bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn denies being the “mastermind” of a strategy to put multimillion-euro assets of the Quinn family beyond the reach of Anglo Irish Bank, but agreed steps taken were “wrong and unethical”, although he did not believe they breached Russian law.

Irish retailers are facing potential costs of around €10m this year for accepting payments via credit and debit cards.

In an underground bunker in Switzerland scientists are edging closer to finding a particle that is fundamental to our understanding of physics, writes Martin Rees

IT has been called “the brick that built the universe” and “the God particle.”

Confirmation that scientists have found the Higgs boson, the greatest trophy in particle physics, could come "very soon" in the New Year, it was claimed today.

BRITISH lawmakers have called on CNN talk show host and former tabloid editor Piers Morgan to return to Britain to answer questions about phone hacking after allegations made by the ex-wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney.

News International CEO resigns - full texts of messages to staff from Rebekah Brooks and James Murdoch

NEWS International said yesterday it would co-operate after Rebekah Brooks, Rupert Murdoch and his son James were asked to appear before a committee of MPs.

A British High Court judge has begun the unenviable task of deciding whether a baby boy with an active brain locked inside an immobile body should live or die.

Tullow Oil has announced that natural gas production from its Munro field development started last Monday with an initial average rate of 55 mmscfd.

OIL and gas exploration firm Tullow Oil has started production at the Horne and Wren North Sea gas field, the London and Dublin quoted oil and gas group, said yesterday.

The ISEQ index was up 25.47 to 5661.93 in morning trade.

Production has begun in the Boulton H Well gas field in the southern North Sea, according to Tullow Oil plc.

The Reverend Professor Rab Mollan is to succeed Bishop James Moore as President of the Church Missionary Society of Ireland from July 1.