While Ireland remains a popular study option for US students, equally a world of educational opportunity awaits the Irish stateside with a range of financial supports on offer, writes Education Correspondent Niall Murray

SOUTH African reggae star Lucky Dube has been shot and killed in a carjacking.

A man suspected of shooting a Grammy-winning musician during an attempted car jacking was arrested after a five-and-a-half hour stand-off with police.

From the Afro-Cuban melodies of Senegal’s Baobab Orchestra to the funky rhythms of South Africa’s Mahotella Queens, African musicians lent their voices today to Live 8’s global call for a fairer deal for the world’s poorest continent.

A GRIZZLY bear mauled a woman jogger to death on a popular hiking trail in Canada over the weekend, only eight days after the animal was removed from another residential neighbourhood after threatening people.

A woman and her 10-year-old son hid from immigration officials in a Montreal church because she said she preferred a Canadian jail to a death squad at home in Zimbabwe.

A coach driver whose tour bus plunged down a South African mountain killing 27 Britians has been convicted of causing their deaths.