FIRST-TIME buyers can save hundreds of euro a month by buying a property instead of renting, according to a comparison index compiled by wealth management firm Financial Engineering.

Wall Street rebounded today after its biggest sell-off in years amid growing expectations that US politicians will salvage a $700bn (€496bn ) rescue plan for the financial sector.

DOWN exhibitor, Desmond Gibson, Dromara, had a successful outing to the Iverk Show in Piltown, Co Kilkenny, where he won the Tullamore Dew brood mare and foal All Ireland championship.

THE prestigious breeders’ championship at the Fáilte Ireland Dublin Horse Show was won by a nine-year-old bay mare owned by Margaret Jeffares, Ballykelly House, Drinagh, Co Wexford.

After looking at secretive military hospitals in Beijing, the World Health Organisation today said its investigators will visit new parts of China amid a surge in cases of the deadly Sars virus in an inland province.

British investigators are flying out to inspect the site of the fatal helicopter crash in Kosovo.

Two people have died after an RAF helicopter with seven people on board crashed in Kosovo close to the border zone with Macedonia.