Ireland secured automatic qualification for the Rugby League World Cup with an emphatic 13-try victory over Russia.

The music publishing company that has been collecting royalties on the song Happy Birthday To You for years does not hold a valid copyright on the lyrics to the tune that is one of the mostly widely sung in the world, a US judge has ruled.

A SOUTHERN California man was sentenced to six years in prison for infiltrating computers belonging to women and teenage girls where he found sexually explicit photos and threatened to put them online unless they provided him with more.

A man who tried to extort $1.3m (€879,000) from Tom Cruise in exchange for stolen wedding photographs of the actor and Katie Holmes was sentenced to two years’ probation today.