US authorities investigating the suicide of an Irish schoolgirl last month are understood to have obtained a grand jury subpoena to allow them to investigate certain discussion groups on Facebook.

BULLIES who drove a 15-year-old Co Clare teenager to take her own life posted vindictive messages on a Facebook site dedicated to her memory.

In the hours before his death, the 20-year-old son of Anna Nicole Smith appeared fine to medical personnel in the Bahamas, who said tonight they saw him walking in his celebrity mother’s room, talking and sleeping in the same bed with her.

Beyonce Knowles' little sister is recording a new album after signing a new record deal with Geffen.

A judge in the Bahamas said he is close to resolving a legal issue that delayed an inquest into what caused the death of Anna Nicole Smith’s 20-year-old son.

An inquest into the death of Anna Nicole Smith’s son Daniel is not expected to get under way properly until tomorrow, officials have said.

With feuding guests, booing spectators and a coffin draped in a pink cover studded with rhinestones spelling out her name, Anna Nicole’s Smith’s funeral was part soap opera, part circus.

A US Supreme Court justice today denied a motion by Anna Nicole Smith’s mother, Virgie Arthur, to halt the burial of the former Playboy Playmate and take her body to Texas, according to reports tonight.

Anna Nicole Smith’s mother received permission to see the former Playboy Playmate’s daughter, her lawyer said.

Anna Nicole Smith planned to leave her fortune to her son – who died last year - according to a will she made in 2001.

Photographs of Anna Nicole Smith in bed embracing the Bahamian immigration minister who approved her application for permanent residency have revived a political scandal in the islands, with one politician calling for the minister’s resignation.

Prince Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, said today he plans to file a paternity challenge to gain custody of Anna Nicole Smith's infant daughter.

The locks at the Bahamas mansion where Anna Nicole Smith had been living were changed for the second time in 24 hours as a lawyer for the late reality TV star said he had retaken possession of the estate.

Anna Nicole Smith, the former Playboy playmate whose bizarre life careened from marriage to an octogenarian billionaire to the untimely death of her son, died today after collapsing at a Florida hotel, her lawyer said.

Anna Nicole Smith’s partner said today he has obtained a court order blocking efforts by a businessman to cut off power and water at the Bahamas home where the former Playboy Playmate has taken refuge.

Anna Nicole Smith has lashed out at her mother for making TV claims that the former model's partner, attorney Howard K Stern, was to blame for her son's death.

Anna Nicole Smith's son Daniel had at least seven drugs in his system when he died on 10 September, according to toxicology reports.

In a ceremony punctuated by screams and cries, reality TV star Anna Nicole Smith attended the funeral of her son in the Bahamas, nearly six weeks after he mysteriously died while visiting her in the hospital where she had given birth to a daughter.

Anna Nicole Smith's lead attorney in the Bahamas withdrew as counsel for the reality TV star yesterday following disagreements over her conduct.

A paternity battle is brewing over US model Anna Nicole Smith’s new baby, with two men both claiming to be the father of the girl.

Anna Nicole Smith’s 20-year-old son died from a lethal combination of methadone and two antidepressant drugs, a US-based pathologist who conducted a private autopsy said yesterday.

A lawyer for Anna Nicole Smith today said he was the father of the reality TV star’s newborn girl, who has been the couple’s one “ray of hope” as they have grieved the death of her 20-year-old son in the Bahamas.

Anna Nicole Smith was so distraught by the death of her son in the Bahamas that she had to be sedated and later suffered memory loss of the event, a lawyer for the celebrity said.

Reality TV star Anna Nicole Smith is said to be “absolutely devastated” after her 20-year-old son died while visiting her in the Bahamas hospital where she gave birth last week.

The 20-year-old son of Anna Nicole Smith has been found dead in the Bahamas, where the former reality TV star and Playboy playmate gave birth to a baby girl days earlier.

FOUR US Marines refused to answer rape charges against them yesterday in the Philippines, prompting the judge to enter a not guilty plea for them in a case that has stirred emotions about the US military presence in the ex-American colony.

THE United States yesterday refused a Philippine request to hand over four marines charged with rape, provoking anti-American protests in the capital and the Muslim south, where US troops began annual counter-terrorism training of Filipino soldiers.

Tottenham’s attacking problems were highlighted again following the shock 1-0 defeat to Grimsby at Blundell Park in the Carling Cup.

Sexy singer Beyonce Knowles is now an aunt, after her younger sister Solange gave birth to a boy last week.

Beyoncé Knowles' sister Solange's suspected pregnancy has finally been confirmed, after she hosted a star-studded baby shower in Houston, Texas. Pictured: Beyoncé.

Beyoncé's little sister is now a married woman!

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