Togoville did us a favour at Dundalk two weeks ago and it makes sense to be with him again in the Happy Birthday Anne Hughes Handicap on the polytrack tonight.

Trainer Johnny Levins divulged that the Ayr Gold Cup next September is the long-term target for Your Pal Tal following the progressive five-year-old’s victory in last night’s opener in Dundalk.

Michael Halford’s Arif can land the one-mile Elusive Pimpernel Maiden at Dundalk tonight.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has quashed the conviction and ordered the retrial of a 33-year-old man who was jailed for life for murdering the man he suspected of having an affair with his wife.

A Pakistani man was arrested on suspicion of cannibalism when the head of a newborn baby was found at his home — three years after he was jailed for the same offence.

A trial has today been hearing details from the phone records of a man accused of murder and his alleged victims today.

A woman has told a murder trial that she saw a man being dragged from a window in Drogheda after he screamed out for help.

A 31-year-old man on trial charged with murdering his wife’s cousin told gardaí that he had hurt him because he saw the victim in bed with his wife.

A 41-year-old woman has denied that her husband stabbed her cousin to death after finding her in bed with him.

The wife of a 31-year-old man on trial for murder has given evidence that he stabbed her and her cousin several weeks after she left him.

A 31-year-old man has gone on trial for allegedly stabbing his wife and killing a relative of hers at an apartment in Drogheda, Co Louth.

A 31-year-old man will go on trial at the Central Criminal Court tomorrow morning charged with murdering a man and assaulting a woman in Louth last year.

A Pakistani man remains in custody this morning after his ex-wife was injured and her cousin killed in a knife attack at the couple's former Co. Louth home.

IRAQ’S high tribunal yesterday passed a death sentence on Tareq Aziz, once the international face of dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime, over the persecution of Islamic parties, the court said.

OF all Ireland’s play-off defeats, this one was the hardest to take.

Two men have been charged with murder after a road-rage crash that killed a five-year-old boy and critically injured his mother and infant sister, authorities said.

The jury in the Washington sniper murder trial of Lee Malvo was due to consider its verdict today, after hearing closing arguments from both sides in the case.

Prosecutors have said Lee Malvo’s lawyers have not produced enough evidence to support an insanity defence in the Washington sniper trial.

JOHN LEE MALVO, the 17-year-old accused of a series of sniper attacks that terrorised the Washington DC suburbs, has admitted during a seven-hour interrogation that he carried out some of the killings, it was reported yesterday.

Ten people died in an earthquake in northern Pakistan today, government officials said.

Pakistani police are now examining Karachi’s notorious criminal gangs in their hunt for kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

US Secretary of State Colin Powell has ruled out bowing to the demands of kidnappers who are threatening to kill an American journalist.