A jury has heard how a man joked with his landlord about killing his housemate in Dublin just days before he stabbed him to death.

A court has heard how a man accused of murdering his flatmate in Dublin told Gardaí they began fighting after he disconnected their broadband.

The shock departure of three registrars from Ennis Hospital has been described as a “crushing blow” for local acute services in the county.

Lindsay Lohan will not face prosecution over a nightclub manager’s claims that the actress struck him with her sports car due to lack of evidence and doubts about his credibility, prosecutors decided.

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Lindsay Lohan's probation has ended as declared today at Los Angeles Superior Court.

A DOCTOR who, it was alleged, was a potential “risk to himself and his patients” was found guilty of poor professional performance at a Medical Council fitness to practise inquiry in Dublin yesterday.

Muammar Gaddafi’s forces pounded rebels near their port-city redoubt in western Libya today.

Libyan rebels battled their way back into a major oil port just 30 miles (50km) west of Tripoli today, forcing Muammar Gaddafi’s troops to close the vital coast highway and key supply route from Tunisia.

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An Irish-based Portuguese woman who wishes to marry her partner before their child is born has secured the permission of the High Court to challenge the Civil Registration Office's refusal to recognise her Portuguese divorce.

A LIMERICK man has been crowned Mr World in a competition that set out to find the most desirable man on the planet.

A suicide attacker drove an explosive-laden car into traffic at a busy bus station in north-western Pakistan today, unleashing a blast that killed nine people and wounded 35 others, officials said.

The death toll from heavy rains and thunderstorms that lashed Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi has increased to 43, an official said today.

Iraq’s Interior Ministry has launched an investigation into claims that a police death squad has been operating in Iraq, a top official said today.

IRAQI security forces questioned terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the Fallujah area last year but released him because they didn’t realise who he was, the deputy interior minister said yesterday.

Iraqi security forces questioned terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the Fallujah area last year but released him because they didn’t realise who he was, the deputy interior minister said today.

Iraq’s prime minister disclosed today that more than 170 malnourished Iraqi detainees were found at an Interior Ministry detention centre and that some appeared to have been tortured.

Two people have been detained in connection with the kidnapping of two Algerian diplomats last week, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said today.

FORMER Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein faces a range of charges from gassing thousands of Kurds to executing political and religious leaders, a list of the cases against him showed yesterday.

Former Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein faces a range of charges from gassing thousands of Kurds to executing political and religious leaders, a list of the cases against him showed today.

Truck driver Mustafa Kamal had dreams that his five-year-old daughter survived the tsunami waves that smashed into Indonesia, and he spent the past four weeks searching for her in refugee camps.

An escaped detainee has surrendered to police after he ran from a Bahrain corutroom.

A terror suspect escaped from a Bahrain court today after a judge ordered him to to held in custody.

The Israeli army blew up the house of a suicide bomber in the West Bank town of Nablus today, the second time the family’s home has been destroyed in revenge.

Bombings and shootings across Iraq have left 18 people dead, including a US Marine and a cameraman killed in fierce fighting between American forces and guerrillas armed with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades in a town west of Baghdad.

A FAILED asylum seeker was jailed for life yesterday for hacking to death his four-year-old stepdaughter, his wife and her disabled brother with a machete-like kitchen knife.

SADDAM HUSSEIN’S son-in-law Jamal Mustafa Sultan Abdullah al-Tikriti has surrendered in Syria and was being brought back to Iraq, it was disclosed last night.

An Algerian pilot arrested by British police was an instructor for four of the hijackers involved in the September 11 attacks on the US, a court heard today.