THE parents of an autistic seven-year-old girl, who weighed barely 20 pounds, were convicted yesterday of starving their daughter to death.

The parents of an autistic seven-year-old girl who weighed barely 20lb (9kg) were found guilty today of starving their daughter to death.

AN internet cartoon showing characters modelled on Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson engaging in sex acts is child pornography, an Australian judge has ruled in a landmark case.

Ireland will be out to prove the doubters wrong when they meet Tonga in their opening Rugby League World Cup Pool Three clash at Parramatta Stadium on Sunday night.

LEGENDARY opera diva Kiri Te Kanawa won a lawsuit yesterday after she pulled out of concerts with an Australian rocker in case his fans hurled their knickers onto the stage.

An Australian convicted of trying to buy bomb-making materials and purchasing maps of the country's power grid was sentenced to 20 years in prison today.

THE mother of 33-year-old Dublin train driver Garry Mulligan broke down in tears in court yesterday when she spoke of the pain her son still suffered as a result of his tragic swimming accident in Australia.

FORMER train driver Garry Mulligan, 33, who was paralysed when he broke his neck while swimming during a holiday in Australia, had just proposed to his girlfriend before the accident, the New South Wales Supreme Court was told in Dublin yesterday.

Legal history was made today when an Australian court sat for the first time in the Republic of Ireland to hear how a train driver was paralysed during a holiday swimming accident.

Legal history is being made today as an Australian court sits for the first time in Ireland to take evidence from a man paralysed during a holiday swimming accident.

AN Irishman left paralysed from the neck down following a diving accident in Australia is seeking €3 million in compensation.

IRISH legal history will be created next month when an entire Australian court will sit in Dublin to hear a negligence action taken by an Irish holidaymaker who was seriously injured in a diving accident in 1999.

Legal history will be made in Ireland when an entire Australian court travels to Dublin to take evidence from a man paralysed during a holiday swim.

A woman who stabbed her de facto husband, then skinned and decapitated him before cooking him for his children’s meal became was jailed for life, it was reported in Australia today.