A 16-year-old boy will appear in court later today charged with the murder of a teenager stabbed to death in London on Thursday evening.

The husband of a woman and three children who died in an arson attack on their home has said he has no hatred for the eight men convicted over their deaths.

Two men have been found guilty of murdering a mother and her three children in a botched revenge attack.

Two men have been found guilty of murdering the wife and three children of an Ireland-based surgeon in a botched revenge attack.

IF you chose your concerts wisely this past Cork jazz weekend, your experience would have belied the negative media previews, which focused on the dilution of jazz in favour of a mélange of soul, rock and pop.

Flamboyant Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary is to ease stringent travelling conditions for passengers.

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IN ITS 35 years, the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival has grown and broadened so far beyond its roots that it’s possible most years to preview it on two fronts: from the point of view of the jazz aficionado, and the perspective of the general music fan.

A grieving neurosurgeon whose family died in a suspected arson attack has told mourners at a funeral service that he is "a bird without any wings".

Prayers are being said this morning for four members of the family of a Dublin-based doctor who died in a house fire in Leicester in England last month.

About 1,000 mourners are expected to attend a funeral prayer service for the family of a neurosurgeon who died in a suspected arson attack.

An eighth man is to appear in a British court today charged with the murder of the family of a Dublin surgeon - his wife and three children - who died in a suspected arson attack on their home.

Thousands of mourners yesterday attended a funeral prayer service for a mother and her three children who died in a suspected arson attack.

Two more men have been charged with murdering four members of a Dublin surgeon's family after a deadly house fire.

Three men and a youth have appeared in court charged with murder over a house fire which killed four members of a Dublin surgeon's family.

Four people including a 16-year-old have been charged with murder after a fatal house fire in Britain in which the wife and children of an Irish-based doctor were killed.

Seven men have been arrested in connection with the deaths of a mother and her three children who were killed in a house fire.

A neurosurgeon whose family died in a suspected arson attack said the evil deed was part of God’s plan and he was not supposed to be angry with him for allowing it to happen.

A grieving father whose wife and three children were killed in a suspected arson attack on their home had planned to be with his family on the night of the blaze.

An 18-year-old man has appeared in court today charged with murdering the family of a Dublin-based doctor, after they died in a house fire.

An 18-year-old man has been charged with murder in connection with a house fire which killed four family members of a Dublin surgeon.

Three women arrested as part of an investigation into a fatal house fire which killed four members of the same family of a Dublin surgeon killed have been bailed.

A neurosurgeon has spoken of his grief after his family was killed in a suspected arson attack as police continue to question five people over the fatal house fire.

A Dublin neurosurgeon has spoken of his grief after his family was killed in a suspected arson attack as police continue to question five people over the fatal house fire.

The four family members of a Dublin surgeon killed in a recent house fire had no connections to a street attack in which a man was murdered, police have confirmed today.

A family murdered in a suspected revenge attack may have been the victims of mistaken identity, a neighbour has said.

British detectives are investigating after the wife and children of a Dublin-based surgeon were killed in a house fire in England.

MUSIC NEWS: Co-operation between Damon Albarn and Noel Gallagher would put the fall of the Berlin Wall in the shade, but the formerly feuding Brit-pop kings are rumoured to be working together.

A British woman and her American husband accused over a domestic terrorism plot have admitted lying about the existence of a hit list of possible targets.

A top Pakistani police official accused an al-Qaida linked militant today of orchestrating the deadly attack on former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, saying police had “solid evidence” of his role in the killing.

Security officials in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province said today they arrested a teenager allegedly involved in the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto last month.

NEARLY 200 troops serving Somalia’s weak Western-backed government defected to the Islamic courts movement, an Islamic official said yesterday, as both sides braced for impending war.

Government forces backed by Ethiopian troops have clashed for a second day with Islamic militiamen near a village in southern Somalia, officials said.

SYRIA, one of Hezbollah’s main backers, said in remarks published yesterday that it will press for a ceasefire to end the fighting between Israel and the Islamic militant group but only in the framework of a broader Middle East peace initiative, signalling it was ready to help defuse the Lebanese crisis.

Syria, one of Hezbollah’s main backers, said in remarks published today that it will press for a ceasefire to end the fighting between Israel and the Islamic militant group but only in the framework of a broader Middle East peace initiative, signalling it was ready to help defuse the Lebanese crisis.

Mexican boxing legend Marco Antonio Barrera has backed Naseem Hamed’s stated intention to return to the ring nearly five years after outclassing the ’Prince’ in Las Vegas.

A slick two-hour al-Qaida propaganda “documentary” shows a multiethnic group of insurgents in Afghanistan – including Europeans, Arabs and other nationalities – preparing to attack US troops and showing off what they said was a captured US military laptop.

SERGEANT Hasan Akbar was noted by officers to have had an “attitude problem” earlier in his army career.

Philadelphia band The Roots were one of the stars of Witnness 2003.

An American militant accused of conspiring to help the al-Qaida terror network has been arrested in Malaysia.

Palestinians were today threatening revenge amid world leaders’ condemnation of an Israeli missile attack which killed eight people, including top Islamic militants and two children in the bloodiest day in the region in nearly two months.