USA: A watch collector spotted a rare Swiss timepiece in a Phoenix second-hand store, bought it on sale for $5.99 (€5.27) and then sold it for $35,000 (€30,700).

BRITAIN: Store giant Asda has unveiled what it describes as the UK’s first sweet red onion, promising to rid shoppers of tears and bad breath after eating.

WHOOPS! BUNGLED BID TO TOW COP CAR

The good Samaritan who gave the coat, and more, off her back, to a baby born on a bustling New York street corner has been reunited with the child’s parents

It’s a bartering system ideally suited for the economic times we’re in — a free exchange of labour or skills between people.

‘I think,’ she says.

An alcoholic who drunkenly stabbed a passer-by and then tried to slash the tyres on a taxi so he couldn't escape has been given a three year prison sentence in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern failed to provide background details to bank lodgments in an order of discovery, the Mahon Tribunal heard yesterday.

It may not apply across a broad media front. It may not even apply right across the Irish Examiner’s front. A lowly columnist cannot be held responsible for what news editors and leader writers decide.

A Jamaican woman allegedly bludgeoned to death with a lump hammer by her Nigerian husband was advised to get a barring order on the day she died, a solicitor has told the Central Criminal Court today.

A jury in the trial of a Nigerian man accused of murdering his Jamaican born wife by hitting her in the head with a lump hammer has assured the judge that its members have not been contacted by anybody about the case.

Tour operator First Choice Holidays today announced record profits and said a shake-up of its business was bearing fruit.

Aerospace and defence group Smiths is to snap up one of the world’s leading medical device companies in a $925m (£476m / €688.7m) deal, it confirmed today.

Microwave radio and satellite transmission products company Vislink has announced a decline of 11.5% in sales, due largely to a downturn in sales in the UK.

VALENTIA Telecommunications, the owner of Eircom, has confirmed it will float the company on the Dublin and London stock markets next month, raising hundreds of millions in fresh capital.

DECK the malls this Christmas season ... Falalalalalalalala ... Blow your cash for no good reason ... Falalalalalalalala.