An Italian librarian has won the right to use family sick leave to care for her ailing dog.

AMERICAN student Amanda Knox received a major boost in the appeal of her Italian murder conviction when independent analysts rejected the prosecution’s claims of finding DNA on two crucial pieces of evidence used to convict Knox of killing her roommate.

Forensic scientists who helped convict Amanda Knox of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher made a series of glaring errors, experts claimed today.

I DISAGREE with most of what your columnist Diarmaid Ferriter had to say about Cardinal Connell (February 14).