Prosecutors have charged India’s former telecommunications minister, two other officials and six company executives with fraud and forgery in a scandal estimated to have cost the country billions of euro.

The mother of a British boy held captive in Pakistan today said she forgave the kidnappers as she made an emotional plea for the safe return of her son.

KEVKAT rates a solid wager to land the Keith Everitt Race over an extended ten furlongs at Dundalk tonight.

CHEYENNE Star rounded off a tremendous season when, enterprisingly ridden by Seamus Heffernan, she scored a facile win in the listed Cooley Fillies Stakes at Dundalk last night.

Pakistani authorities mounted a massive security operation today to hold opposition leader Benazir Bhutto under house arrest for the second time in five days and prevent her from staging a protest march against emergency rule.

Kevin Prendergast holds a strong hand in Sunday’s Group Three CL Weld Park Stakes at the Curragh.

A Lebanese guerrilla was killed and two Lebanese civilians were wounded in cross-border fighting today as Lebanese gunmen responded to Israeli airstrikes by attacking Israel, the Hezbollah’s Al Manar TV said.

A passenger boat believed to be carrying between 60 and 100 people sank in eastern Indonesia after it was swamped by heavy waves.

FOUR American and four Italian military personnel were killed in separate aircraft crashes, military officials said yesterday, as Iraq’s prime minister condemned the arrest of a top Sunni political leader by US troops.

NOTORIOUS property baron Nicholas van Hoogstraten left the Old Bailey yesterday a free and innocent man declaring he had been vindicated.

A Limerick man serving a life jail sentence in the UK for the murder of a businessman was today refused permission to appeal his conviction.

ONE of Britain's wealthiest men was facing a life sentence today after being convicted of killing a business associate who dared to challenge him.

One of Britain’s wealthiest men was tonight facing a life sentence after being found guilty of killing a business associate who dared to challenge him.

Property tycoon Nicholas van Hoogstraten - accused of murdering a business associate - made threats about people who displeased him, the Old Bailey in London heard today.

Property magnate Nicholas van Hoogstraten was involved in a court battle over dealings with the retired businessman he is alleged to have had murdered by two hitmen, a court was told today.

The man who boarded a jetliner with explosives allegedly hidden in his shoes was a Sri Lankan national travelling on a British passport, French police disclosed today.