"His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."

AVIVA are to sponsor Irish schools athletics for the next three years.

DOCTORS injected cells into the brain of a patient in the “world’s first” stem cell trial for stroke victims, it was announced yesterday.

Nine people including at least six children have died in a fire at an apartment block complex in the US.

TED CROSBIE, chairman of Opera 2005, last night launched the organisation’s programme for the coming season at the Heineken Brewery — and specifically, next week’s opening of The Marriage of Figaro.

A man died of carbon monoxide poisoning after illegally siphoning diesel from a Texaco garage.