A woman injured in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing who had several surgeries before having part of her leg amputated recently was discharged from a rehab facility over the weekend and has vowed to run the race next year.

'Casualty' actress Rebekah Gibbs has died after losing her battle with cancer.

A conker, DVD cases with titles such as Instant Lesbian, homeopathic medicine and a 50p piece were among the assorted items found in bags stashed in the car park of Rebekah and Charles Brooks’ London home, the hacking trial heard.

DVD cases with titles such as 'Instant Lesbian' were among the assorted items found in bags in the car park of the London home of Rebekah and Charles Brooks, the Old Bailey hacking trial heard today.

The trial of Rebekah Brooks, who ran Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper arm, was shown film footage of her husband involved in what prosecutors say was a botched plan to hide evidence from police investigating allegations of phone-hacking.

In the midst of his company’s hacking scandal, Rupert Murdoch headed to his London apartment and emerged with the News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks on his arm. Asked by a reporter about his priorities, Murdoch answered: “This one,” gesturing with his thumb to Brooks.

An eBay bidder who won a £5,000 (€6,000) chicken nugget resembling George Washington has chickened out of the deal.

Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks and her husband are expecting a baby by a surrogate mother, her spokesman said.

DURING last week’s pinking of Dáil Éireann, courtesy of Mary Mitchell O’Connor, one politician after another, one ex-politician after another, told us we shouldn’t be talking about the Miss Piggy episode.

GORDON BROWN has been “shocked” by the way that his family’s personal details have been obtained through alleged “criminality” and “unethical means”, his office said last night.

THE former editor of the News of the World, Andy Coulson, is to be arrested this morning. The Guardian reported that he had been told to attend a central London police station for questioning over claims he knew about phone hacking.

Peter Robinson's journey to political redemption reached another landmark as he topped the Assembly poll in the East Belfast constituency where he lost his Westminster seat.

A MAN accused of torturing and killing his 21-year-old daughter said he kept her bullet-riddled body in his freezer for two years, but was not responsible for her death.

THE cramped gymnasium on the first floor of Newtownard’s leisure centre had been due to hold a pole-dancing class on Thursday night. Instead it witnessed Northern Ireland’s entire political world turned on its head.

Troubled Democratic Unionist leader Peter Robinson today admitted revelations about his wife's affair have left him desolate and struggling to face the outside world.

Dominic Mohan has been appointed as the new editor of The Sun newspaper, it was announced today.

A PRIEST yesterday pleaded for a change in people’s hearts to overcome the scourge of violence in Irish society, when he preached at the funeral Mass of a teenage murder victim.

It has been a long apprenticeship. However today Peter Robinson finally got the chance to take over as leader of the North’s most successful political party, the Democratic Unionists, after 28 years of being the Rev Ian Paisley’s understudy.

The parents of a 15-year-old girl who died after being struck with a baseball bat during an assault in Dublin donated her organs to help three people, an inquest heard today.

THE Sun's editor Rebekah Wade was questioned by police yesterday following an alleged attack on her EastEnders hardman husband Ross Kemp.

Sun newspaper editor Rebekah Wade has been released from custody following her arrest for allegedly assaulting her EastEnders star husband Ross Kemp, police said today.

NEIGHBOURS described yesterday how they tried to save the life of a two-year-old girl who died in a house fire in Killarney, Co Kerry.

A COURT has brought down the curtain on the stranger-than-fiction saga of battling beauty queens, allegations of topless photos and a judge intent on protecting “a significant part of Americana.”

Kelly Brook is the sexiest British woman of the last 50 years, according to a men's magazine poll.