The billionaire family of the Red Bull energy drink heir accused of killing a policeman in a hit-and-run has struck a deal which will pay the officer’s siblings less than €75,000, police in Thailand said today.

A nine-year-old boy was shot dead as he got off a bus in Bangkok, and unknowingly stepped into the crossfire of rival high school gangs, police in Thailand said today.

A LIMERICK man found dead in a hotel in a resort in Thailand was a teenage cycling champion who raced against the likes of Stephen Roche and Sean Kelly.

Supporters of Indonesia’s largest Islamic organisation clashed with Muslim hard-liners following a bloody attack on interfaith activists by the radicals.

An Irishman was killed in a fire that engulfed a row of beach huts in an eastern Thai resort popular among backpackers, police said today.