AN AUSTRALIAN toddler died after being given morphine and methadone by either his mother or her boyfriend, but there is not enough evidence to charge either of them, a coroner found yesterday.

A former Sydney businessman, officially listed as drowned during a drunken boating mishap five years ago, today admitted he had faked his own death to cash in on a life insurance policy worth 3.5 million Australian dollars (€2.2m).

A CORONER in Australia has ruled as accidental the death of an Irishman who fell 25 feet from a building while being chased following a bar room brawl.