A US judge has struck down President George Bush’s authority to designate groups as terrorists, saying his post-September 11 executive order was unconstitutional and vague.

FRIENDS of an Irish journalist shot dead in Saudi Arabia paid tribute last night to a man who was bigger than life and a joy to be around.

THE last photographs of the Titanic, snapped by a woman accompanying her 11-year old nephew on the doomed trip from Southampton to Queenstown, are included in an album set to fetch up to stg£15,000 at auction.