A British mechanic was cleared by a court in the UK today of playing a role in smuggling €227m of cocaine into the Republic of Ireland.

A British jury trying a mechanic accused of taking part in the biggest cocaine case ever seen in Ireland has retired to continue its deliberations today.

LAWYERS for a Canadian prisoner at Guantanamo Bay released excerpts of videotaped interrogations yesterday, providing a first-ever glimpse into the secretive world of questioning enemy combatants at the isolated US prison in Cuba.

A heroin addict who hailed a taxi outside a pharmacy while his accomplices were inside holding up staff with a barbecue fork has been given a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The US military has filed murder charges against Omar Khadr, a Canadian who was a teenager when he was captured in Afghanistan and sent to the Guantanamo Bay prison in 2002.