European light-heavyweight champion Joe Ward got Ireland’s campaign off to a flying start on the opening day of the final Olympic qualifiers for European male boxers in Trabzon, Turkey yesterday.

A YOUNG boy has escaped with barely a scratch after being hit by a runaway car which hurled him through the air.

PRELIMINARY tests have confirmed that a 12-year-old Turkish girl who died was infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, while a 13-year-old Indonesian girl also died of the disease.

Health authorities today said that preliminary Turkish tests confirmed that a 12-year-old girl who died was infected with the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, raising Turkey’s death toll to four.

A 12-year-old Turkish girl died today as tests were carried out to see if she was the latest victim of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, doctors said.