It’s that sense of unfinished business which keeps Ian Ryan trucking along.

USA: A watch collector spotted a rare Swiss timepiece in a Phoenix second-hand store, bought it on sale for $5.99 (€5.27) and then sold it for $35,000 (€30,700).

The fight against Ebola has taken a promising leap forward after drug tests on monkeys with the deadly disease proved 100% successful.

The triumph and tragedy of sport was encapsulated by Harry Purcell’s magnificent senior 800m and 400m double before he pulled a hamstring in the 4x100m relay at the Aviva All-Ireland Schools Track and Field Championships in Tullamore on Saturday.

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Kerry minor football manager Mickey Ned O’Sullivan has warned his young charges — improve, or face getting dumped out of the Munster MFC in the next round.

A scientist who was the star defence witness in the trial of Michael Jackson’s doctor will be in court today to fight a threatened $1,000 fine for contempt.

The case of Michael Jackson’s doctor was placed in a jury’s hands after contentious legal arguments over who was to blame for the superstar’s death - the celebrity who craved sleep at any cost or the doctor accused of providing the drugs that killed him.

MICHAEL JACKSON’S doctor told a judge yesterday that he would not testify in his own defence, as testimony came to a close in the involuntary manslaughter trial.

The doctor charged over Michael Jackson’s death told a judge he had not yet decided whether he will testify in his own defence.

A VETERAN anaesthetist testifying for the doctor charged in Michael Jackson’s death told a jury that the physician deviated from the standard of care and earned the wrath of a judge for repeatedly referencing inadmissible information.

The differing opinions of two professors on how an anaesthetic killed Michael Jackson has left jurors with two choices about how the King of Pop died.

Lawyers for Michael Jackson’s doctor dropped the bombshell they had been hinting at for months – an expert opinion accusing the legendary singer of causing his own death.

A defence witness in the trial of Michael Jackson’s doctor has said he believes the singer gave himself a fatal injection of an anaesthetic.

An expert on the powerful anaesthetic blamed for Michael Jackson’s death hinted he disagreed with prosecutors’ theories in the case against the singer’s personal doctor.

The lead lawyer for the doctor charged in Michael Jackson’s death challenged a key prosecution expert about his contention that the physician was responsible for the death of the singer.

Michael Jackson was so heavily drugged in the hours before his death that he would have been incapable of self-administering the massive dose of propofol that killed him, a medical expert testified at the trial of Jackson’s doctor.

An expert in the powerful anaesthetic blamed for Michael Jackson’s death has told jurors there is no way the singer could have caused his own death by swallowing the drug.

Experts repeatedly told jurors that Michael Jackson’s doctor acted with “gross negligence” throughout his treatment of the pop star as prosecutors neared the end of their involuntary manslaughter case against the physician.

The doctor charged in the death of Michael Jackson tried to change his story about his actions involving the pop star, telling his own experts in the upcoming trial a different story than he told police, prosecutors said.

A FORMER Labour MP was jailed for 18 months yesterday over the country’s lawmakers’ expenses scandal, becoming the first person to be imprisoned following the damaging affair which dented public trust in politics.

NOEL CONNORS has been named Waterford Hurler of the Year after a sensational season.

Three former British Labour MPs and a Tory peer will stand trial in a criminal court accused of fiddling their expenses, a judge ruled today.

A WELL-DRILLED, highly-skilled Limerick were far too strong for Waterford in this opening round of the Munster MFC in Kilmallock last night, qualifying for a semi-final meeting with Kerry and condemning the Déise boys to a backdoor meeting with Clare on Monday evening next.

PROSECUTORS charged three MPs and one peer yesterday with false accounting over alleged abuses of the parliamentary expenses system.

US soldiers rolled into a base in the Iraqi Shiite holy city of Najaf today to replace withdrawing Spanish troops and put pressure on a radical anti-American Shiite militia that controls parts of the city.

Nottingham Forest have confirmed that they have lodged an appeal with the FA over Michael Dawson’s play-off red card.

Australian police today dismissed claims that the disappearance and suspected murder of British backpacker Peter Falconio was an insurance scam.