Toronto’s troubled mayor said a purported video of him smoking crack cocaine did not exist and vowed to seek re-election next year.

A video purportedly of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack has caused an uproar in Canada. Mr Ford yesterday called the allegations “ridiculous”.

DAVID NORRIS has again refused to release clemency letters he wrote for a former partner, saying legal issues prevent him from doing so.

THE owner of the Irish Daily Star newspaper had a 10% drop in profit last year, according to its newly filed accounts.

Independent Star Limited, publisher of Irish Daily Star newspapers, has reported operating profits of €4.3m for the year ended 31st December 2010.

A newborn baby died after being snatched by a monkey from a family’s living room, according to Malaysian news reports.

OFFICIALS in Malaysia have closed parks and warned the public about swimming and dumping rubbish in rivers after up to 10 people died from a disease spread by rats.

Malaysia has scrapped plans for a multi-billion-dollar high-speed bullet train connecting Kuala Lumpur and Singapore because of high costs, a government official said today.

Gwen Stefani said she was “not a bad girl” and would dress modestly for her Malaysian concert, hoping to placate Islamic critics who claim she could corrupt the Muslim-majority country’s youth, it was reported.

Virgin and EasyJet are to team up with an Asian airline to create the world's first budget global network.

Four Siberian Bengal tiger cubs have been born in a zoo in southern Malaysia, a news report said today.

Malaysian police have arrested 12 men belonging to a new radical Indonesian group suspected of planning attacks on several neighbouring countries, it was reported today.

The Star today defended its decision to publish a controversial cartoon which has offended Muslims across the world.

FERMANAGH’S 22-year wait for a second Allstar award will come to an end this afternoon when the Vodafone football team are chosen by a panel of national media in Dublin.

AFTER a libel case which bore all the hallmarks of a murder trial, Ian Bailey, the self-confessed chief suspect in the Sophie Toscan du Plantier killing, lost his action against six newspaper titles yesterday.

Mohawk-style haircuts may be coming back in style, but officials in north-eastern Malaysia have deemed them “un-Islamic”.

THE battle in the Sunday newspaper market is about to hot up with the launch of a Sunday edition of the Star.

Legal action has been adjourned against a number of media organisations in connection with their coverage of a crash in Dublin in which a taxi man was killed by a stolen vehicle.