A shooting today outside a restaurant in central Buffalo, New York state, left four people dead and three injured, police said.

FRANKIE DETTORI’S restaurant venture with celebrity chef Marco Pierre White is to open for business in Ireland.

While bookmaker and former government minister Ivan Yates admitted taking bets in a well-known Dublin pub, he has insisted there was “no attempt to break the law”. In an interview on the eve of Cheltenham 2008 with Irish Examiner reporter Conor Kane, he explains why.

The Phil Spector murder trial has heard testimonies from two women who were with the music producer on the night he is accused of fatally shooting actress Lara Clarkson.

Judge Frank O’Donnell has told the man found guilty of shooting publican Charlie Chawke during an armed robbery that he should be professionally represented by a legal team at his upcoming sentence hearing.