FIFA’s executive committee will be able to see some parts of the Garcia investigation into World Cup bidding, it has been announced.

Aisling Brady McCarthy’s lawyers have a filed a scathing objection to testimony implicating the Cavan nanny in the death of a baby girl in Boston at the beginning of 2013.

The Cork man at the centre of an international cycling media storm has apologised to anyone he offended following his now infamous selfie with Sunday’s stage winner of the Giro d’Italia in Dublin, Marcel Kittel.

The fallout from the failed hostage rescue bid in Nigeria was continuing today after William Hague insisted it had been impossible to inform the Italian authorities in advance.

Jack Warner has broken his silence on the 2018 World Cup vote and pinned the blame for England's defeat squarely at the door of the media investigations into FIFA.

Future FIFA vice-president Jim Boyce has called for the secret vote for World Cups to be scrapped.

LIBYA agreed to compensate Lockerbie relatives to resolve a diplomatic row, not because Tripoli was behind the 1988 bombing, Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi has said.

FIFA’s ethics chiefs are to investigate claims of ’vote-buying’ in a bitter contest for one of the 23 seats on the world governing body’s all-powerful executive committee.

The Dublin-based branch of Australian health IT company, IBA Health, has won a €22m contract with the British health service, the NHS.

NEW images of naked prisoners, some bloodied and lying on the floor, threatened to revive public anger over abuse by US guards at Abu Ghraib prison at a time when tensions with the West are already running high in the Middle East.

New images of naked prisoners, some bloodied and lying on the floor, threatened to revive public anger over abuse by US guards at Abu Ghraib prison at a time when tensions with the west are already running high in the Middle East.

An Australian network could be justified in airing graphic images of abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison if they showed evidence of mistreatment that has not already been investigated, Prime Minister John Howard said today.

AN Australian television network yesterday aired previously unpublished video and photographs of what it said was the abuse of Iraqis in US military custody at Abu Ghraib prison in 2003.

An Australian TV network today broadcast photographs and video clips it said were previously unpublished images of the alleged abuse of Iraqis held in US military custody at Abu Ghraib prison.

AFGHAN president Hamid Karzai yesterday condemned the alleged desecration of the bodies of two dead Taliban fighters by US troops, but he said mistakes happen in war and Afghans shouldn’t let it mar their impression of the US.

THE US military and the Afghan government said yesterday they will investigate a TV report claiming US soldiers in Afghanistan burned the bodies of two Taliban fighters and taunted other Islamic militants.

The US military said today it found “repugnant” and would investigate a television report that claimed US soldiers in Afghanistan burned the bodies of two Taliban fighters and then used the action to taunt other Islamic militants.

American soldiers in Afghanistan desecrated the bodies of Taliban fighters by burning them, violating Islamic tradition, then taunted a nearby village about the act, an Australian television network reported today.

THERE’S a story that may interest the GAA hierarchy and send a shiver down the spines of RTÉ executives.

RTÉ bosses have expressed their sorrow following the apparent suicide of one of the participants in a reality tv show co-produced by the broadcaster.

Iraqi militants who kidnapped an Australian reporter in Baghdad and threatened to kill him ”Googled” his name on the internet to investigate his work before releasing him unharmed, the journalist’s executive producer said today.

Two blasts killed a man and injured 26 others in a troubled city in eastern Afghanistan today, while concerns grew about an Australian journalist missing in the violence-plagued south.

The woman who claims she was David Beckham’s lover has lost her job presenting a show on Dutch television – after just two weeks.

The pro-government Uri Party took a majority in South Korea’s hotly contested parliamentary elections today.

Seven South Korean missionaries who were detained in Iraq have been released, South Korea’s SBS news reported from Iraq.

The fighting in Iraq is drawing resources from the battle against al-Qaida and the Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan, Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf says.

TWO of the most famous hurling nurseries in Munster - Farranferris and Limerick CBS - have opted out of the Irish Examiner sponsored Dr. Harty Cup.

SYRIAN Foreign Minister Farouq al-Shara has said his government is willing to sign a treaty making the entire Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction.

A radio DJ in South Korea caused chaos today when she mistakenly said Germany had been disqualified from the World Cup, meaning the co-hosts would meet Brazil in the final on Sunday.

An Australian television station today accused Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader of plotting to assassinate President Robert Mugabe and take power in a coup.