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A 73-year-old Dutch man, who was one of three men found with almost €5m worth of cannabis herb and resin, has today been jailed for seven years.

Six inmates led by a mob boss died by suicide at a prison in Taiwan after a failed break-out attempt in which they seized weapons and held a warden and guards hostage.

Three men charged following a multi-million euro drugs seizure in north Dublin have been sent forward for trial.

This lover's spat has gone a little too public – and resulted in a jealous girlfriend being arrested for assault.

ONE of the world’s most celebrated cellists, Julian Lloyd-Webber, is looking forward to his return visit to Ireland.

China’s political elite has been shaken by a lurid new scandal over the death of a senior official’s son who crashed his Ferrari during what appeared to be a sex session with two women.

ASIAN fortune-tellers are divining mixed blessings for Britain’s Prince William and fiancée Kate Middleton, with the gloomier oracles warning of affairs, divorce and trouble having children.

China has executed a serial killer convicted of murdering 11 people, including three police officers, over the course of nearly a decade.

The 1980s seem to be getting a revival for this sees a return of the stories from back then, and it’s not at all bad.

A man who hanged himself from a bridge in Co Down was a paranoid schizophrenic, an inquest heard today.

THE crowd is happy, the music is swirling, and two men jump up, pints of Guinness in hand, for a quick jig.

SUNWAY has expanded its winter programme by increasing accommodation in the destinations of Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Tenerife, Morocco and Tunisia, and the company has added Turkey for Christmas and New Year.

A teacher in north-western China has been sentenced to death for raping 18 primary school girls aged nine and 10, state media reported today.

TO say that the Chinese love to gamble would be a gross cultural generalisation. Then again, one could be excused for assuming as much, considering how the world’s gaming industry is going after China’s gamblers.

Chinese scientists today carried out the country’s first successful test of an experimental fusion reactor, powered by the process that fuels the sun, a research institute spokeswoman said.

The number of people worldwide who have been infected with the deadly H5N1 strain bird flu since 2003 has risen above 200, the UN health agency said today.

THE deadly strain of bird flu was confirmed yesterday in a cat in northern Germany, the first time the virus has been identified in a mammal in the EU.

Indonesia said a 27-year-old woman died of bird flu as it prepared to scour the capital for infected poultry, while Malaysia and India expanded culls of chickens to try to contain the H5N1 virus.

ONE victim is a five-year-old boy who got sick after killing a duck for New Year’s dinner and is now in critical condition.

A five-year-old boy battling the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain in Turkey was reported to be in a critical condition today as experts awaited test results on three others admitted to hospital with symptoms at Europe’s doorstep.

World Health Organisation officials say they are trying to determine why the bird flu outbreak in Turkey has spread so quickly among humans, especially children.

Bird flu in humans appears to be spreading in Turkey, with three people in Ankara testing positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in preliminary tests, representing the first suspected cases outside the eastern city of Van.

OFFICIALS have confirmed three cases of the deadly strain of bird flu in the Turkish capital Ankara.

Turkish and European health officials prepare to tour an eastern region today hit by bird flu after a British laboratory confirmed that two siblings who died this week from the virus were infected with the deadly H5N1 strain.

TWO Chinese men arrested following the stabbing of two gardaí in north Dublin were charged with theft and immigration offences.

Nearly 900,000 people have been evacuated from two regions of southern China where at least 46 have died in flooding that was the worst in a century for some areas, the government said today.

All samples of the killer influenza virus sent outside the US have been destroyed except one in Lebanon, and that has been located, the UN health agency said today.

Pro-democracy opposition figures scored three new seats in Hong Kong’s parliament, but fell short of expectations, official results showed today, as critics attacked problems with the voting and the count.

TWO Vietnamese sisters who died of bird flu may have caught the disease from their brother, the World Health Organisation said yesterday.

Indonesia warned today that it could lose a million jobs because of an outbreak of bird flu.

CHINA is changing its constitution to protect private property rights for the first time since the 1949 communist revolution — a key step in making capitalism its economy’s driving force.

German and Israeli diplomats have lashed out at a Hong Kong fashion company for using swastikas and other Nazi party symbols.