One of Britain’s most wanted fugitives has been arrested in Spain, police said.

Two men have avoided jail after admitting copying thousands of files from Sony Music, including previously unreleased tracks by Michael Jackson.

A 61-year-old Englishman has been jailed for 28 years after masterminding a plot to smuggle 1.5 tonnes of cocaine into the UK.

They’ve hacked the CIA, the Sun newspaper, the Church of Scientology and a host of other large corporations, sparking a global police crackdown. But who and what are Anonymous? A radical new form of activism – or just bored teenagers? Carole Cadwalladr spoke with some of the ‘hacktivists’ and the experts who tracked them down

Thousands of people are set to attend day two of the 50th International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin today, which began yesterday with lower than expected attendance and amid renewed calls for the resignation of Cardinal Seán Brady.

Eighty years and a world away from its last staging in Ireland, the International Eucharistic Congress has returned to Dublin to the delight of devout Catholics and a marked indifference by the wider public.

The "spiritual Olympics" of the Catholic Church will be staged in Ireland next week, attracting thousands of pilgrims from around the world.

The head of a family-run international prostitution ring has been sentenced to another decade in prison after refusing to hand over €2,197,780.85 from his proceeds of crime.

A veteran republican wanted over a multimillion-dollar counterfeiting operation involving high quality “super notes” will not be extradited to the United States.

A pregnant woman - believed to be an Irish Traveller - arrested on suspicion of slavery offences in Britain has been released on bail.

A RECORD £300 million (€344m) haul of cocaine has been seized and six alleged members of an international drugs gang arrested.

A veteran republican handed over almost $250,000 in Russian hotels in an international plot to spread the notes across Europe, a court heard.

A teenager accused of carrying out a hacking attack against the website of the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency has been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, a form of autism, since his arrest, a court heard today.

A British teenager accused of carrying out a hacking attack against the website of the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency will appear in court today.

A BRITISH teenager suspected of masterminding a global computer hacking plot from his bedroom could face a fight against extradition to the US.

The head of a family-run prostitution ring has been ordered to hand over almost €2.2m from his proceeds of crime.

SWEDISH police have said that technical problems hindering the arrest of Julian Assange, the founder of whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, had been overcome, and a British newspaper said he was in Britain.

THE Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has received two separate requests to investigate a Cork-based charity for survivors of institutional abuse.

A FUGITIVE criminal and key suspect in the Veronica Guerin murder investigation faces extradition to Britain after being arrested in a small town in Holland.

A gangster who fled Ireland after journalist Veronica Guerin’s murder is facing extradition from Holland to the UK, it was revealed today.

Two Irish nationals were among a group of 25 people being held in Spain tonight after police smashed a suspected drugs ring in Ibiza.

THE VATICAN has issued a new document making it easier to discipline priests who abuse children, and also made the possession or distribution of child pornography a canonical crime for the first time.

Fugitive gunman Raoul Moat has threatened the public as well as the police, it emerged today.

THREE men were arrested on suspicion of importing drugs into Britain after suspect packages were found attached to lobster pots off the coast.

Border officials seized €26,000 stuffed inside the bra of a woman as she arrived on a ferry from Ireland.

A man suspected of heading a vast international drugs, guns and money laundering empire was arrested during raids in Ireland, Britain and mainland Europe today.

All parties in the North need to unite against British government cuts, Sinn Féin said today.

SURVIVORS of clerical abuse say the Primate of All-Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh, Cardinal Seán Brady, told them he would comply with a statutory tribunal into the Church’s handling of clerical sex abuse complaints, if such a body was to be established.

ALL IRELAND Primate and Archbishop of Armagh, Cardinal Seán Brady has told a clerical abuse survivors group that the Church is committed to finding a “just solution” to the victims of the Magdalene Laundries.

BISHOPS criticised in the Pope’s pastoral letter could come under renewed pressure to resign after the message to Irish Catholics sparked anger among some victims’ groups.

CONCERNS have been raised over how a High Court action – brought against his own members by the head of a group for survivors of institutional abuse – is being funded.

A LONER with a modest lifestyle ran a secretive website where criminals traded information from stolen credit cards causing tens of millions of pounds of losses.

THE head of the Irish Survivors of Child Abuse (SOCA) group has written to Taoiseach Brian Cowen calling for an inquiry into the financing of all survivor groups over the past 10 years.

SURVIVORS of institutional abuse have met with a representative of the Bishop of Cork and Ross in relation to donations made to Right of Place.

THE row that broke out between the founder of Right of Place, Noel Barry, and some of its member finally came to a head last month.

AN independent person acting as an impartial arbiter is set to be appointed to help negotiations between survivors of institutional abuse and the bishops.

THE hierarchy who were quick to condemn ordinary mortals as sinners have finally been forced to admit grievous wrong doing by many of their clergy, Irish Survivors of Child Abuse (SOCA) said yesterday.

Survivors of clerical abuse demanded tonight that senior clergy and gardaí who allowed known paedophile priests to prey on defenceless children be brought to justice.

A man accused in the UK's House of Commons of being one of the IRA’s most ruthless killers has had his properties seized for suspected money laundering.

Scores of people were arrested as British and Spanish police smashed an international cocaine ring, it was confirmed today.

Assets worth almost £6m (€7m) were surrendered by three brothers today after a major investigation into fuel smuggling.

A former student of Pope Benedict today branded clerics who ran abusive institutions as the “dregs of society”.

GROUPS representing child abuse victims have called on the Government to revisit “every” compensation case with a new expert advisory board.

THE showdown between Taoiseach Brian Cowen and the 18 religious orders which signed the controversial 2002 child abuse indemnity deal is to take place next Thursday — a day after he meets survivors’ groups to hear their demands for an appropriate response from both Church and state.