Human remains may be embedded in the mud of the North Atlantic where the Titanic came to rest when it sank 100 years ago.

The explorer who found the Titanic has told of his fears that the inside of ship will be stripped of its priceless artifacts by treasure hunters.

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HUGE excitement among the birding community and more ominous signs of climate change.

A painting by one of the North’s best-known artists has been stolen from a hotel.

Professional wrestler Chris Benoit strangled his wife and smothered his seven-year-old son before hanging himself in his weight room, near Atlanta, Georgia, a law enforcement official close to the investigation said.

MOTORISTS have been warned not to wear sandals and flip-flops when behind the wheel this summer.

WEST Cork breeder Seamus Lehane continued a marvellous season at Carbery Show in Skibbereen where he captured the Cork County yearling championship and the young horse championship.

Florida’s supreme court unanimously ordered the acquittal of a death row inmate, saying prosecutors had not proved he killed two neighbours.

THE sinking of the Titanic would not have given Jack and Rose much time for more than a kiss, according to researchers who say the doomed ship sank far faster than previously thought.

EVERYBODY has heard of Butch Harmon, David Leadbetter, even Hank Haney.

LEICESTER TIGERS have been forced to ask almost 150 of their fans to return tickets for next month’s Heineken Cup quarter-final with Munster at Welford Road.

Hank Ballard, the singer and songwriter whose hit The Twist ushered a dance craze in the 1960s, has died.

Rescuers refloated 39 pilot whales at high tide, but dozens more died today after a pod beached on a remote island off southern New Zealand.

A Bulgarian historian today launched an ambitious project to reconstruct the Biblical ark, complete with pairs of animals, as a tourist attraction.

A British forensics expert has suggested that the manner in which forensic evidence in a rape and murder trial was collected prior to testing in the State Forensic Science Laboratory could have left it open to tampering or contamination.