Detectives were tonight investigating two separate domestic incidents that left a woman and a man dead.

FIANNA FÁIL headquarters will have to “examine their consciences” after a decision to select local election candidates through an interview process meant many disgruntled former members won seats as independents.

Discoveries of planets orbiting stars outside the solar system, efforts to better understand the weather and work on carbon tubes are among the discoveries that could win the Nobel Prize in physics today.