Thousands of anti-government demonstrators broke through police and military lines today to flood the streets around Bangkok’s business district and other areas of Thailand’s capital.

Thousands of anti-government demonstrators clashed with Thai police and military troops trying to prevent them from leaving the capital’s commercial district today to stage protests elsewhere in Bangkok.

Thousands of Jordanians rallied in the capital and other cities shouting “Burn in hell, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi!” a day after three deadly hotel bombings that killed at least 59 people.

Suicide bombers carried out nearly simultaneous attacks on three US-based hotels in the Jordanian capital last night, killing at least 57 people and wounding at least 115 in an al-Qaida-style assault on the Arab kingdom with close ties to the United States and a border with Iraq.

ERNIE ELS flew over the site at Hangman’s Point near Kinsale and was so enthused with what he witnessed, he immediately made favourable comparisons with Pebble Beach.

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The Gresham Hotel Group is expected to sign over the management of its hotel in Dublin to the global luxury hotel group, Hyatt.

A PLANNING application for an integrated €200 million golf, equine and hotel development at the mouth of Kinsale harbour will be lodged with Cork County Council today.

THREE Barclaycard Premiership footballers facing serious sex assault allegations have been told there will be no decision on their bail applications until tomorrow, their lawyer said yesterday.

THREE Leicester City footballers faced another night in jail as their manager Micky Adams insisted yesterday his players were “innocent until proven guilty”.

Federal regulators closed a Chicago-area bank half-owned by the multi-billionaire Pritzker family that has been battered by huge losses on loans to high-risk borrowers.