Interpol has issued a notice seeking the arrest of a leading opponent of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who has requested political asylum in Peru, a Venezuelan police chief said.

THE head of the Rape Crisis Network has said she agrees with actress Helen Mirren that female jurors could be less likely to sympathise with a rape victim — but for different reasons.

The Royal College of Nursing and the Open University teamed up today to offer flexible training courses in the North which could help stop students running up debts while studying.

CATHAL Ó Searcaigh’s decision to break his silence on the Fairytale of Kathmandu documentary reignited the heated controversy yesterday with his former media adviser describing him as having a “Judas complex”.

More than 100 people were feared dead after a boat laden with emigrants capsized and sank in rough waters in the Pacific off the coast of Colombia.

Moving confidently through his first days as pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI acted to guarantee continuity in church leadership while trying to brighten his austere image.

MORE than one million Irish viewers couldn’t take their eyes of this scene last week when Coronation Street serial killer Richard Hillman threatened to make his wife Gail Tilsley the next victim.

Pop and film stars who opt for Caesarean births to ‘‘fit in with their schedules’’ are setting poor examples for young women, nurses said today.