A six-year-old boy has accidentally shot and killed his three-year-old brother while playing “cops and robbers” with a gun their father told investigators he obtained illegally from a gang member.

ANYONE familiar with the format of the reality television show, The Secret Millionaire, will know the format: a rich benefactor is covertly embedded in a disadvantaged community to spread his largesse on projects he deems worthy of financial support. 

Extra police officers on Chicago’s streets were not enough to quell a long weekend of violence that ended with 14 people shot dead and dozens more injured.

A secret millionaire has donated a record amount to a youth rap project and to help a suicide support group set up by the parents of a teenager who took her own life after being bullied.

It may be almost three weeks until the All Ireland hurling final, but Cork fans have it all rapped up already.

A 15-year-old girl who performed at Barack Obama's inauguration festivities is the latest name on the ever-increasing murder list in the president's home town.

The wife of an Indian-born lottery winner who was poisoned with cyanide said she was devastated by his death and cannot believe her husband could have had enemies.

Meet the hip-hop kids who’ve got Christmas all rapped up.

Thousands of protesters marched through Chicago in one of the city’s largest demonstrations in years, airing grievances about war, climate change and a wide range of other complaints as world leaders assembled for a Nato summit.

ALMOST 900 jobs were under threat in Dublin last night after the High Court appointed a provisional liquidator and interim examiner to a leading hotel and bar group and also appointed an examiner to a laundry company.

WHAT’S billed as Ireland’s first election rap song has already become an internet sensation.