The author of Whatever You Love worked dead-end jobs for years prior to success, says Colette Sheridan.

Amanda Knox said she will only be extradited to Italy "kicking and screaming", after judges reinstated her murder conviction for the death of British student Meredith Kercher.

Amanda Knox has said she was frightened and saddened after being found guilty of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher and that “justice was perverted”.

An Italian appeals court has upheld the guilty verdict against US student Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend for the 2007 murder of her British housemate Meredith Kercher.

US student Amanda Knox’s second appeals trial to determine her role in the murder of her British housemate is under way in Italy in her absence.

Amanda Knox has defended her decision not to return to Italy to face retrial over the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.

The former boyfriend of Amanda Knox has repeated his innocence as he prepares to face a retrial over the murder of British exchange student Meredith Kercher.

Amanda Knox has said she wants to visit the grave of murdered British student Meredith Kercher.

Amanda Knox has said she wants to visit the grave of murdered British student Meredith Kercher.

Amanda Knox has claimed that what happened to her when she went on trial for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Italy could have happened to anyone.

A British student has landed a £20,000-a-year job as a water slide tester.

Italy’s highest criminal court has today overturned the acquittal of Amanda Knox over the murder of her roommate, and ordered a new trial.

Indie quartet Alt-J have won the prestigious Barclaycard Mercury Prize for their album 'An Awesome Wave'.

Up to 700 people were last night evacuated from New Zealand’s Olympics hospitality house after a fire.

Amanda Knox’s slander trial in Italy has been postponed until next year because the judge is busy with another trial.

THE North Korean capital of Pyongyang is emerging from a tough few months.

The family of murdered British teacher Lindsay Hawker have spoken of their relief after a Japanese court rejected an appeal by her killer.

A university lecturer was arrested today over phone-hacking at the News of the World.

AMANDA Knox insisted she was “not the monster of Perugia” in notes she wrote down in prison ahead of her successful appeal against her conviction for the murder of Meredith Kercher.

Meredith Kercher’s family vowed today to lend prosecutors their full support if they fight the acquittal of Amanda Knox for the murder of the British student.

AMANDA KNOX was cleared last night after a court overturned her conviction for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.

Amanda Knox was cleared tonight after a court overturned her conviction for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.

Amanda Knox made a heartfelt plea for freedom today telling an appeal court she was innocent of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.

When a fresh-faced Amanda Knox arrived in Perugia four years ago, she was one of thousands of American students enjoying being young, free and single away from home.

THE father of murdered British teacher Lindsay Hawker said his family had finally achieved justice after her killer was jailed for life in Japan.

SOME Italian MPs are seeking a probe into the prosecutors’ office in Perugia, where American student Amanda Knox was convicted of murdering her British roommate Meredith Kercher.

Some Italian MPs are seeking a probe into the prosecutors’ office in Perugia, where American student Amanda Knox was convicted of murdering her British roommate Meredith Kercher.

A VOLUNTARY group which has fund-raised for years to prop up services at a community hospital in Co Cork says it feels “disgusted and betrayed” by the HSE’s refusal to say what’s happening about repeated promises to extend the facility.

A key prosecution witness testifying in Amanda Knox’s appeals trial gave conflicting reports today about whether he saw the American near the crime scene the night her British roommate was murdered.

A NERVOUS looking Amanda Knox began her appeal yesterday against her conviction for the sex-murder of a British student in the medieval Italian city of Perugia in 2007.

Italian prosecutors want the convicted killers of British student Meredith Kercher to be given official life sentences.

Amanda Knox’s parents have hired a top lawyer to help free their daughter from jail.

AMANDA Knox said from her jail cell yesterday she is scared but hopeful eight days after an Italian court sentenced her to 26 years in prison for the murder of her British roommate.

THE thought of Amanda Knox killing someone in a moment of anger is “absurd and unrealistic”, the American student’s former lover Raffaele Sollecito has said.

Anxious Italian politicians today tried to quash suggestions of an escalating diplomatic rift with the US over the conviction of Amanda Knox for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.

The family of murdered British student Meredith Kercher today described their anguish at the loss of their beloved “Mez” as a “life sentence”.

A FORMER boyfriend of Meredith Kercher said he would be “forever haunted” by her violent death.

A US Senator said anti-Americanism may have tainted the trial of an American college student in Italy who was found guilty of murdering her British roommate.

The family of Meredith Kercher’s murderer Amanda Knox will immediately begin the process of appealing against her guilty verdict, a spokesman said today.

Former lovers Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were found guilty of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher during an extreme sex game.

FORMER lovers Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were last night found guilty of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher during an extreme sex game.

Former lovers Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were tonight found guilty of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.

Meredith Kercher murder suspects Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito arrived in court today for the final hearing in their trial before the jury retires to deliberate its verdict.

Amanda Knox told a court today she did not want to be branded an assassin.