An experimental drug designed to lower cholesterol may turn out to be an effective weapon against prostate cancer, research has shown.

A US man is suspected of killing his five children and then driving for hours before dumping their bodies on a rural dirt road, authorities said.

THE World Food Programme issued an emergency appeal for aid for North Korea yesterday, saying the agency's supplies have nearly run out and it is cutting off food to almost all the 6.5 million people it feeds there.

The World Food Programme issued an emergency appeal today for aid for North Korea, saying the agency’s supplies have nearly run out and it is cutting off food to almost all the 6.5 million people that it feeds there.

IN the end, it all became too much for Hyder, a Pakistan bocce coach at the Simmonscourt Arena in the RDS, Dublin.