An Irishman dubbed the Ho Hum Bandit will finally plead guilty to a series of bank robberies in the US.

AN Irishman suspected of carrying out a string of two dozen armed bank robberies was turned in by his girlfriend, according to investigators and court documents in the US.

FOUR men behind the world famous file-sharing site Pirate Bay were convicted yesterday of breaking Sweden’s copyright law by helping millions of users freely download music, movies and computer games on the internet.

The entertainment industry won round one in a legal battle against a hugely popular internet music, games and film-sharing site today when four men accused of running it were jailed for a year.

Seven months after disappearing from her owner’s garden in the western US state of Colorado, a terrier named Daisy turned up in Knoxville, Tennessee - 1,300 miles away.