A couple has brought a legal challenge to a refusal to allow them to marry because it would allegedly be a sham marriage.

Ireland were denied a historic win, as former Limavady professional Kamran Akmal blasted Pakistan to a two-wicket victory in the second RSA one-day international at Clontarf yesterday.

A MAN arrested after his brother-in-law’s severed thumb fell from the sky has been jailed for 30 years for his murder.

A powerful bomb exploded at a rally of lawyers in the Pakistan capital of Islamabad today, killing at least two people and wounding several others, police said.

A powerful time bomb ripped through a school van in the eastern Punjab province in Pakistan today, killing at least seven people, including two children, and wounding several others, police said.