Police in Thailand are continuing to search for a backpacker linked to the brutal murders of a British man and a woman on one its idyllic islands, according to reports.

Two British tourists in their 20s have been murdered in a bloody attack on a beautiful Thai beach.

A mother has been arrested on suspicion of trying to kill two of her children in Wales.

School bus driver charged with driving drunk

Any worries regarding the health of Willie Mullins’ horses, following a number of reverses over the previous two racing days, were blown out of the water at Clonmel yesterday.

A blaze tore through a crowded nightclub in southern Brazil early yesterday, killing 232 people as the air filled with deadly smoke and panicked party-goers stampeded toward the exits.

Protesters in Afghanistan and Indonesia burnt US flags and chanted “Death to America” in renewed demonstrations over a film mocking Prophet Mohammed, as Pakistan blocked YouTube access to the film that has unleashed a wave of anti-Western sentiment in the Muslim and Arab world.

Four people died when a fire swept through a nightclub frequented by foreign tourists on the Thailand’s resort island of Phuket.

Attempts to explore the sex life of murdered honeymooner Michaela McAreavey and her husband provoked fierce clashes at the trial of two men accused of the crime.

POLICE say an American who has claimed successful parachute jumps off the Eiffel Tower and the Golden Gate Bridge broke his legs in a failed attempt off Cape Town’s Table Mountain.

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POLICE have arrested a Florida man and charged him with 26 counts of cyber-related crimes against Hollywood celebrities following an 11-month federal probe dubbed ‘Operation Hackerazzi.’

POLICE were hunting a masked man who chained a fake bomb to a young woman’s neck after breaking into her wealthy family’s home in an extortion attempt that Australia’s prime minister said resembled “a Hollywood script”.

POLICE have arrested a second Irishman being hunted over the shooting of a British expat at his home on the Costa del Sol.

CONTROVERSIAL AFL agent Ricky Nixon has fled to Ireland to escape a scandal that has gripped Australia and threatens his career.

WILLIE MULLINS reports Hurricane Fly in good form ahead of his FRBHP Insurances Irish Champion Hurdle run on Sunday.

POLICE in Britain have said they are “satisfied” a body found on a country lane on Christmas Day is missing architect Joanna Yeates.

POLICE in the US have linked a Scottish woman with a trunk in which the mummified remains of a baby and a foetus were found.

INDONESIA’S anti-terrorism unit arrested a radical Islamist cleric yesterday for alleged ties to an al-Qaida affiliated cell accused of plotting high-profile assassinations and Mumbai-style attacks targeting foreigners in the capital.

Police were using helicopters and dogs to search for three convicted murderers who escaped from a northwest Arizona prison, kidnapped two semi-truck drivers at gunpoint and used the big rig to flee.

POLICE questioned France’s richest woman yesterday about suspected tax evasion and money laundering, her lawyer said, in a scandal that has shaken the government.

POLICE were called to a London hotel after X Factor contestants who were staying there got out of hand.

POLICE arrested a 29-year-old woman after she reportedly told emergency operators she did not want her children any longer.

POLICE were desperately searching for the missing wife of a German banker yesterday after what appeared to be a botched kidnapping.

POLICE described yesterday the “truly horrific” scene when a dog picked up an 18-month-old girl in its jaws and mauled her to death in front of her family, including her three-year-old sister.

TENS of thousands of red-shirted protesters rallied in Thailand’s capital yesterday to press their demand that the government dissolve parliament or face massive demonstrations in the city.

TENS of thousands of red-shirted protesters rallied in Thailand’s capital yesterday to press their demand that the government dissolve parliament or face massive demonstrations in the city.

POLICE in Germany have arrested an opera singer who they say murdered her wealthy husband then used a double to get her hands on his €5 million estate.

At least 50 people died in gun battles between the Taliban and another Islamist faction in north-eastern Afghanistan today.

POLICE in the North have confirmed that a journalist with the Sunday World newspaper was arrested inside the east Belfast home of Iris Robinson’s former teenage lover.

Police said a train hit a school bus at an open railway crossing in Pakistan’s east, killing eight children and the bus driver.

JOHNNIE BEATTIE has long been in the shadow of his father but he has revealed he is now also playing catch-up to his baby sister.

EDWARD O’GRADY, who has his horses in rude health right now, can provide us with a winning nap in the shape of Rigour Back Bob in the Adare Maiden Hurdle at Limerick this afternoon.

POLICE have identified the killer of a nine-year-old boy who was raped and strangled 24 years ago.

POLICE on the hunt for a reality TV contestant charged with the gruesome murder of his ex-wife were continuing to search the US-Canadian border after the woman’s relatives pleaded with his friends and family not to help “an animal” evade capture.

POLICE said they found a three-week-old infant stabbed and decapitated in a Texas home and his mother screaming that she killed her son after the devil told her to do it.

POLICE in Amsterdam have said they don’t know where Irish criminal Keith Ennis was murdered or where his body was dumped into a local canal.

POLICE searched yesterday for a newlywed suspected of killing his wife, his sister-in-law and three young children in one of Cleveland’s most horrific shootings in years.

At least 54 New Year’s revellers died in a fire that swept through a nightclub in the Thai capital Bangkok, rescue workers said tonight.

A suicide bomber killed seven people – including five children – while trying to attack a security post near an elementary school in eastern Afghanistan.

More than 450 Thai Muslims stranded at Bangkok’s besieged airport for four days have been bussed to a military base to board a plane for the hajj pilgrimage.

At least 22 people have been killed and 27 others injured when a bus packed with university students and teachers crashed in eastern Thailand.