The case of a Colorado woman accused of cutting open the belly of a pregnant woman and removing her baby girl is reviving the highly-charged debate over when a foetus can legally be considered a human being.

A 20-year-old who slashed the faces of four people in separate unprovoked attacks within a 15-minute period has been sentenced to five years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Len Lungo may be better known for his training of steeplechasers but it did not stop him plundering the John Smith’s Ayr Silver Cup with Against The Grain (16-1).

A hole was blasted out of the side of a comet today as US scientists showed off their sharp-shooting skills 133 million miles from Earth.