Some of the weirder stories from around the world

A friend and business partner of former Anglo Irish Chairman Sean FitzPatrick has told a trial that he was not aware of several transfers made from a bank account they held jointly.

A computer programme was created by an Anglo Irish Bank employee to remove records of a company connected to the bank from its IT system, a trial has been told.

The future of the Czech Republic’s government looks uncertain after a number of members of a junior coalition partner walked out on their party following a bribery scandal.

THE weather continues to paralyse the Irish racing scene with Cork and Clonmel the only southern tracks able to race last night and already as many as six of tonight’s meetings cancelled.

A leading bookmaker was robbed of tens of thousands of pounds by a masked gang as he left the Cheltenham Festival, it emerged today.

A former INLA man, who shot himself in the head in a garda station, helped save four lives after his heart, lung and kidneys were donated to patients.

The Special Criminal Court today cancelled an arrest warrant for the Belfast man who died after shooting himself in a garda station last month.

Colm Peake, the 40-year-old former INLA member who shot himself in the head in a Dublin garda station on Monday, has died in the Mater Hospital.