February is Heart Month — and each and every one of us can benefit from keeping our tickers tip-top, says Abi Jackson.

Two people have been injured in an accidental shooting at a high school graduation ceremony in southern Kansas, authorities said.

As chief executive of Eircell in the late 1990s, Stephen Brewer was to the forefront of the country’s nascent mobile revolution.

Speculation mounts in Melbourne that Damien Duff’s Australian adventure is over after an unusual double injury in Melbourne City’s draw with Wellington on Saturday.

How diet can reduce your gallstone risk, writes Lisa Salmon.

Leinster U20s 32 Munster U20s 20

New Zealand U-20s 45 Ireland Under-20s 23

A widow who won a high court fight to preserve her late husband’s sperm was last night “downhearted” after the UK fertility regulator was given permission to try to overturn the ruling.

A widow who wants to preserve her late husband’s sperm may have to stage a fight in the UK's Court of Appeal.

A young widow has launched a High Court fight to preserve her late husband’s sperm.

EAST Cork mum of two Yvonne Brewer admits she was always nervous about childbirth.

More than 1,000 people packed an Arizona university gym to honour the bravery and sacrifice of 19 elite firefighters who died battling the state’s Yarnell Fire.

DECLAN Ganley feels that he’s publicly misrepresented.

Police in Britain have spoken to more than 30 former female pupils of a prestigious music school who have reported historic sexual abuse.

A councillor who resigned after he said disabled children “should be put down” to save taxpayers’ money has been re-elected.

President Barack Obama said his encounter with Arizona governor Jan Brewer has been “blown out of proportion” and was not a big deal.

It’s not something you’ll see very often — an elected official pointing her finger in the face of the President of the United States.

POLICE in Texas, have honoured a man whose “keen observation skills and strong sense of civic duty” led them to Lee Harvey Oswald, who had crept into the back of a cinema to hide shortly after the assassination of president John F Kennedy.

ORPHANED when his mother dies, Boston teenager Ren McCormack (Kenny Wormwald) moves to a small Midwest town to live with his uncle in Craig Brewer’s remake of Footloose (12A).

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

IT IS a tradition that can be traced far back in history: Before being put to death, a condemned prisoner can choose his last meal.

Texas inmates who are set to be executed will no longer get their choice of last meals, a change prison officials made after a prominent state senator became miffed over an expansive request from a man condemned for a notorious dragging death.

Mike Brewer has been sacked as the head coach of the Sale Sharks, the club have announced.

ARIZONA is preparing to ask an appeals court to lift a judge’s ruling that put most of the state’s immigration law on hold in a key first-round victory for the federal government in a fight that may go to the US Supreme Court.

Anger was mounting throughout the US today regarding a law cracking down on illegal immigration in Arizona.

FORMER All Black skipper Mike Brewer believes Ireland are ‘perfectly placed’ to beat world champions South Africa in Croke Park on Saturday.

IT’S when you examine the clubs of the Fijian players in this evening’s Guinness Series international against Ireland at the RDS that you appreciate how short they are of the quality needed for success at the highest level.

A STUDY of the clubs providing Fijian players for this evening’s Guinness Series international against Ireland is an interesting indicator of the challenge Declan Kidney’s side can expect.

Leinster utility back Isa Nacewa could restart his international career for Fiji aganst Ireland in the November international.

The SRU will interview a short-list of candidates for the vacant Scotland head coach position in the coming weeks – but Mike Brewer is out of the running.

Declan Kidney fears inside knowledge could be Ireland’s undoing in their quest for the RBS 6 Nations Grand Slam.

A nine-year-old boy accused of methodically shooting dead his father and his father’s roommate pleaded guilty to negligent homicide.

Mike Brewer and Graham Steadman have joined Scotland boss Frank Hadden's coaching staff.

LEINSTER are on the lookout for two new coaches with the confirmation from Michael Cheika that assistants David Knox and Mike Brewer will be leaving the province at the end of the season.

A French court has ruled that a Maori head that New Zealand wants back must remain in France.

A New Zealand cave explorer injured in a rock slide was carried to safety today after a three-day rescue, and said he had realised he would die if his friends could not get him to the surface.

If director Brewer had a mind he’d change it almost as many times as he seems to have done with this film … he can’t quite decide what sort of film he wants.

The US Supreme Court threw out death sentences for three killers in the state of Texas today because of problems with instructions given to jurors who were deciding between life in prison and death.

A teenager accused of gunning down his school head told Wisconsin detectives in a videotaped interview that he did not mean to kill him but “freaked out” when the principal tackled him in a school hallway.

FORMER All-Black tight-head Craig Dowd made a very notable description of rugby props around the world by comparing them to fine wines in that they take time to mature.

THE big boys are back for Leinster and Munster — most of them at least.

A paparazzi photographer has been arrested for allegedly trespassing while trying to photograph Angelina Jolie’s adopted son.