Any preconceived ideas we had before the World Cup have been cast aside in an amazing tournament

Authorities lifted tsunami warnings for Chile’s long coastline early on Wednesday after a magnitude 8.2 earthquake struck the South American nation’s northern coast.

The county councillor who campaigned for a relaxation of drink-driving laws for rural Ireland has become a global phenomenon.

Excellent value and a good example of what Chile does best.

TESCO’S autumn wine festival continues until Oct 2 with more than 300 wines on offer and a further 5%off when you buy any six bottles.

Ireland will today learn whether they’ll have to plan without key centre-back Conor Harte for the remainder of their Electric Ireland FIH Road to London Olympicqualification campaign.

Twenty-five suspected members of the Anonymous hacker movement have been arrested in police raids across Europe and South America.

ONE of the myths surrounding the 33 miners who were so dramatically rescued after being trapped for 69 days deep inside a Chilean copper mine is that they’re all millionaires and no longer need to work.

A COURT yesterday sentenced a former army general to life in prison and three ex-state agents to 20 or 25 years for crimes against humanity committed in a notorious torture centre during Argentina’s military dictatorship.

An accident killed two Chileans on their first day at work at an illegal mine in the same northern region where 33 miners were rescued last month after 69 days underground.

Chile is trying to decide what to do with the three rescue capsules built specially to bring out the 33 miners who were trapped half a mile underground for 69 days.

Chilean president Sebastian Pinera arrived in the UK tonight saying Chile had given a great example to the world of “commitment, courage, faith, hope and unity”.

ONE by one, the miners trapped for 69 days in a dungeon that could have been their tomb far beneath the Chilean desert climbed into a rescue capsule and made a smooth ascent to the surface yesterday.

A drill has broken through the rock to Chile's 33 trapped miners, offering them escape after two months underground.

PERHAPS, like me, you have found this week’s Ryder Cup celebrations more than a little surreal? All those mud-splattered Brits, mainly, but not exclusively, Welsh, chanting “Europe, Europe” at Celtic Manor, while living in a nation which, with the possible exception of Greece, is the most Euro-phobic of any of the 27 member states of the EU?

Chile's president said his government is "very close" to pulling 33 trapped miners to safety and he hopes to be there in person to see the rescue before leaving on a trip to Europe.

At least three Britons died in Peru after their light aircraft crashed near one of the country’s most famous tourist attractions, it emerged today.

Four British tourists were killed in a light aircraft crash near Peru’s Nazca Lines, police said today.

WORKERS in Chile expect to be able to rescue 33 trapped miners by mid-October, rather than early November as originally anticipated.

Rescuers drilling into a cavern where 33 Chilean miners are trapped have completed a bore hole ahead of schedule raising hopes the men could be out earlier than expected.

CHILEAN miners trapped deep below ground marked a grim milestone yesterday – a full month since a cave-in cut off their escape route to the surface.

A huge drill began digging a planned escape route today as 33 men stuck half a mile underground in Chile became the longest-trapped miners in recent history.

MINERS trapped deep in a Chilean mine have sent video footage showing them in good spirits, as their families filed the first of potentially many lawsuits against the shaft owner.

IN three days, 33 miners trapped under Chile’s Atacama Desert will have been stuck underground longer than any others in memory – taxing authorities with unique challenges on coaxing them and their families through the ordeal.

BRAZIL coach Dunga insists that past records will count for nothing when they come up against Chile in the last 16 of the World Cup at Ellis Park tonight.

MOST Chileans are unhappy with their government’s response to the catastrophic earthquake and blame President Michelle Bachelet for shortcomings, according to a poll published yesterday.

Chile launched a hepatitis and tetanus vaccination campaign as doctors warned of outbreaks of diarrhoea and infection among thousands of people displaced by the devastating earthquake.

ONE man swings a thick metal chain. Another grips an axe. An older gentleman favours a wooden pole. And a 20-year-old spoiling for a fight has prepared a garrotte – a menacing wire tied between two handles – to confront any intruders.

FORTY retirees enjoying their summer vacation at a seaside campground nestled under pine trees knew they had to move fast after Chile’s powerful earthquake struck.

CHILE’S president sent the army to help police attack looters yesterday and appealed for international help in the wake of an earthquake that shattered cities and killed at least 708 people.

The death toll is expected to rise in Chile after the country was hit by one of the most devastating earthquakes in history, leaving 1.5 million Chileans affected and 500,000 homes severely damaged.

One of the largest earthquakes ever recorded tore apart houses, bridges and highways in central Chile and sent a tsunami racing halfway around the world.

A devastating magnitude-8.8 earthquake struck Chile early today, shattering buildings and bridges, killing at least 122 people and setting off a tsunami that threatened every nation around the Pacific Ocean – roughly a quarter of the globe.

A mudslide on the famed Inca trail to Machu Picchu killed an Argentinian tourist and a Peruvian guide, as authorities evacuated hundreds of tourists by helicopter from a flood zone where more than 1,500 others were still stranded.

Right-wing billionaire Sebastian Pinera set himself up for an election run-off against a veteran of the coalition that has ruled Chile for two decades of democracy.

A Chilean court today ordered the release on bail of General Augusto Pinochet’s widow, five children and former associates, two days after they were arrested on corruption charges.

REFUGEES from Pinochet’s Chile were feared as anarchists and potential recruits for the IRA.

In a posthumous letter to Chileans made public today, General Augusto Pinochet wished he had not needed to stage the bloody 1973 coup in which he took power, describing his destiny as one of banishment and unimagined loneliness.

The death of Gen Augusto Pinochet sparked champagne-soaked celebrations, skirmishes with police and displays of lasting devotion as Chileans took an anguished look back at the dictator's 17-year rule.

Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet will be cremated, according to his son Marco Antonio, to avoid desecration of his grave by “people who always hated him".

Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet has taken full responsibility for the first time for the actions of his 1973-90 dictatorship, in which thousands were killed.

Chile will use income from its booming copper exports to advance a new social agenda by investing in health, housing and education, President Michelle Bachelet said in her first state-of-nation address.

The elder daughter of former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet has requested asylum in the US after being taken into custody at Dulles International Airport.

Socialist Michelle Bachelet placed first in Chilean presidential elections yesterday but will face a runoff against a right-wing businessman who is one of Chile’s richest men.