Financier Allen Stanford, waiting trial accused of defrauding investors out of billions, was taken to hospital with heart problems today.

Billionaire Allen Stanford is back in Texas today to face federal charges that he ran a US$7bn (€4.95bn) scheme to defraud investors with his international banking empire.

Texas billionaire Allen Stanford, chairman of the troubled Stanford Financial Group, is to appear in court today on fraud charges after surrendering to FBI agents, officials said.

The US government is asking a judge for permission to go after at least $226.6m (€174.4m) in back taxes, penalties and interest it says are owed by Sir Allen Stanford, the Texas billionaire accused of conducting an €6.1bn investment fraud through an offshore bank.

A US judge ruled today that thousands of investor accounts with Texan billionaire Allen Stanford’s financial companies would remain frozen for another 10 days.

MUSIC may well be the food of love but Mozart, Bach and Beethoven could also burn a nasty hole in your pocket.

Music may well be the food of love but Mozart, Bach and Beethoven could also burn a nasty hole in your pocket, new research suggested today.

AN aspiring politician strolled past a metal detector at tightly guarded City Hall in New York — escorted by the councilman he once hoped to replace — then pulled a gun in the crowded balcony of the council chamber and shot his rival to death.

A gunman today opened fire in New York’s City Hall, killing a political rival before being shot dead by police.

THE MEATH CHRONICLE is to be sold for more than €30m to Scottish newspaper group Dunfermline Press and another significant media asset sale is expected to be completed before the new year.

An 18-year-old student accused of shooting five people at his high school made a reference to the 1999 massacre at Columbine High in Colorado during class earlier this year and simulated guns with his hands, a classmate said.