Gerald Jennings, a property manager from Carlow Town, claims he was arrested because gardaí wrongly believed he had carried out a savage street assault on his fiancée, beautician Martha Kowalczyk.

A man claims he was wrongfully arrested and falsely imprisoned after gardaí wrongly suspected he carried out a savage random street attack on his fiancée.

China’s leaders face new pressure to stimulate a slowing economy after growth decelerated for a second consecutive quarter, hurt by weak trade and efforts to cool a credit boom.

China's economic growth tumbled to the lowest in more than three years in the latest quarter but retail sales and other activity accelerated in a sign a recovery from the painful downturn is taking shape.

A Polish historian says he has located the village where Manfred von Richthofen, the German fighter ace known as the “Red Baron,” took on his first mission of the First World War.

Leona Lewis is frightened to go out after being attacked by a schizophrenic fan.

A MAN was detained under the Mental Health Act today after admitting punching pop star Leona Lewis in the face.

A man accused of assaulting pop star Leona Lewis is not fit to attend court, a judge was told today.

A man accused of assaulting pop star Leona Lewis is not fit to attend court, a judge was told today.