A consultant surgeon and his wife have been found guilty of defrauding €700,000 from insurance companies through a false breast cancer claim.

The jury in the €700,000 breast cancer insurance fraud trial has been told by the prosecuting counsel that the evidence could lead to only one conclusion: "This was a clever, elaborate and dishonest fraud."

An Egyptian national who worked for a consultant surgeon charged with a €700,000 breast cancer insurance fraud has today denied that he brought "an object in a jar filled with fluid" from Egypt to Ireland for him.

A consultant surgeon charged with a €700,000 breast cancer insurance fraud said he made "a hard decision" when he chose to perform a lumpectomy on his wife while she lay conscious on an examination table in his clinic.

A consultant surgeon charged with a €700,000 breast cancer insurance fraud broke down in tears at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court as he described the day he said his wife discovered a lump in her left breast.

A letter and a phone call received by a now retired insurance company staff member set off a major garda investigation into an alleged €700,000 insurance fraud by a consultant surgeon and his wife.

The US-backed road map to peace in the Middle East was in crisis tonight after a suicide bomber killed at least 17 on a Jerusalem bus and seven Palestinians were killed by Israeli air strikes in Gaza City.

The CIA launched a secret bid to have suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin laden captured or killed three years ago.