It may take investigators days to untangle a grisly murder scene at a southern Alabama home where five adults, including one pregnant female, were found murdered, authorities said.

“With the year I’ve had this is very special,” said trainer Mouse Morris after watching Rogue Angel battle back bravely to snatch victory in the Guinness Kerry National, when the Listowel Harvest Festival resumed yesterday afternoon.

Yesterday provided a well-deserved moment of joy in a year of heartache for trainer Mouse Morris as Rogue Angel fought back tenaciously to edge out Urano in a thrilling finish in the Kerry Grand National.

A Canadian news show were covering a seemingly innocent space-related story when sports anchor Rich Abney couldn’t resist the urge to make a naughty joke.

A Tennessee man and his family used much of the $187m (€168m) it collected for cancer patients to buy themselves cars, and take luxury cruise holidays, pay for college tuition and employ family members with six-figure salaries, federal officials have alleged in one of the largest charity fraud cases ever, involving all 50 states.

Willie Mullins has chosen Ballycasey over Champagne Fever as his representative in the Betfair Ascot Chase tomorrow.

Joe Tizzard feels there is more improvement to come from Cue Card when the horse bids to erase the memory of last year’s agonising defeat in the William Hill King George VI Chase at Kempton on St Stephen’s Day.

Irish politicians are the most incompetent in the world, according to journalists from America’s National Public Radio (NPR).

Three ministers separately cancelled interviews today at the last minute.

Two journalists from America’s National Public Radio were left less than impressed after three government ministers cancelled three separate interviews.

George the goldfish had surgery in Australia to remove a brain tumour. It went swimmingly (sorry).

FTC says the company has not done enough to stop kids making unauthorised purchases, writes Joe Kloc

Your guide on what to look out for on the box this evening.

THE past 18 months have seen Mark O’Regan putting together some gallery of rogues on the Irish stage. In the Abbey Theatre’s Alice in Funderland he played an insidiously smug politician, the ‘Minister for All Your Needs’.

Willie Mullins has confirmed his big guns on course for the Punchestown Festival later this month.

Yes, we are using 'prank' as a verb now. Deal with it.

Mayo hopes that Pearce Hanley would return to the county colours from the AFL appear to be fading after his club Brisbane have moved to secure his services for the long-term.

A guilty verdict has been returned for the man accused of strangling Wexford student Nicola Furlong, with the Tokyo court sentencing American Richard Hinds to a maximum prison term of 10 years with labour.

Willie Mullins looks to have acquired another talented French import for owners Rich and Susannah Ricci in Unika La Reconce after she made an impressive Irish debut at Thurles.

With disgraced banker Seán FitzPatrick’s puppet banished to the storeroom of the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre for legal reasons, Anglo: The Musical could easily have been a case of Hamlet without the prince.

Staying in the homes of strangers is a fun, cheap way to travel. Just open your door in return, says Brian Canty

The wind blew, umbrellas flew and even the rain felt like it could cut you in two, but the show went on at Punchestown yesterday.

Imperial Shabra received the loudest cheer of the afternoon at Stratford after claiming the Alice’s Noodle Bar Novices’ Handicap Chase – but the decibel level would have been considerably higher had Oliver Brady been present.

DESCRIBED by her trainer as “an iron mare“, Blazing Tempo turned over odds-on favourite Noble Prince to land the Grade 2 Norman Grove Chase at Fairyhouse yesterday, providing Willie Mullins with the highlight of a superb four-timer.

Robbie Williams has nightmares about being killed by terrorists

A WONDERFUL moment in a wonderful play. It’s the point in A Man for All Seasons where Thomas More faces the evidence trumped up against him to get him beheaded and rid Henry VIII of a turbulent priest who will not countenance the monarch divorcing his wife.

DRUMMER extraordinaire Louie Bellson passed away on February 14 last. In the genre of big band music, he was the last of the “big three” drummers and his gig with the great Duke Ellington Orchestra is memorable, particularly his electrifying solo on Skin Deep (his own composition).

US President George Bush will spend his last full day in the White House today as the world’s attention turns towards the inauguration of Barack Obama.

I finally arrived home about noon yesterday, after what can be best described as a less than enjoyable few days.

THE first black man elected US president is poised to name Washington lawyer Eric Holder as the nation’s first black attorney general — a historic appointment, but one with some potential political problems over a 2001 pardon.

Pamela Anderson’s estranged husband Kid Rock was reportedly furious with the star over her appearance in the Borat movie.

The bodies of a woman clutching two children, and a man lying nearby, were discovered on an isolated stretch of road in Florida.

Chris DiMarco claimed “divine intervention” played a part in his third-round 69 at Hoylake which lifted him to 12 under and within one shot of leader and defending champion Tiger Woods today.

Cameraman Sebastian Rich is seeking a $1.8m (€1.45m) book deal for his autobiography, in which he claims he had a fleeting sexual encounter with late British royal Diana, Princess of Wales.

EVERY parent feels a little overwhelmed when leaving the hospital with a newborn.

An American woman who was once told she would never have children has given birth to triplets – for the second time.

Rockers The Black Crowes are planning to reunite and record a seventh album.

THREE teenagers with a Matrix fixation were arrested with an arsenal of weapons with which police say they were planning to slaughter “as many people as possible”.

Of all the world’s top golfers, no one has struggled more this season than Phil Mickelson but, as PJ Browne discovered, he has come early to this part of the world in order to get his game together for the Open Championship

OAKLAND and Tennessee captured division NFL titles on Sunday, but the playoff puzzle was still missing plenty of pieces after the penultimate weekend of the gridiron season.

The woman whose ex-husband was given a controversial pardon by former US president Bill Clinton in his last days in office has denied having an affair with him.