Jedward are favourites to win Eurosong, Ireland's selection process for the Eurovision, tonight.

Efforts by activists to step up their Olympic-based protests met with a Chinese crackdown today.

Their hopes fading and legal options exhausted, Terri Schiavo’s parents appeared quietly resigned to watching her die, but could claim one Easter victory: The severely brain-damaged woman received a drop of communion wine on her tongue – her only sustenance in nine days – after her husband allowed her to receive the sacrament.

LAWYERS seeking removal of a Ten Commandments monument from a judicial building’s rotunda told a federal judge yesterday they would not press to have the state’s chief justice held in contempt for refusing to move it.