Shadow Snatcher by Lou Kuenzler (A&C Black; €7.10).

GARDAÍ last night said they were making good progress with their investigations into the murder of a Latvian father-of-two.

The claws were out in Hollywood when Lindsay Lohan turned up at the home of X-Men: The Last Stand director Brett Ratner, only to find him in bed with Romanian model Alina Puscau.

A numb Russia observed a national day of mourning for the more than 350 victims of the terrorist school seizure today, while desperate families searched for the missing in grief-stricken Beslan and criticism of the government mounted.

THE sound of weeping mothers who lost their sons and daughters in Russia’s school siege drifted out of the homes of Beslan yesterday as the first burials were held for some of the 338 people killed.

Funeral processions snaked through Beslan today as relatives buried the first victims of the Russian school siege, while frantic parents still searched for missing children two days after the crisis erupted into violence that left more than 350 people dead.

A doctor threw sulphuric acid over a female patient who spurned his romantic advances, police said today.