A commercial airliner with 46 people aboard is believed to have crashed in Venezuela after residents reported hearing a thunderous collision in the mountains.

THE 10th anniversary edition of the AIB Irish Seniors Open, in association with Greenstar and Fáilte Ireland, will be marked in grand style with a record prize fund, a glorious new venue and a five-star field littered with former Ryder Cup players.

Cuba freed internationally renowned dissident writer Raul Rivero from prison today, the latest in a series of releases apparently aimed at cleaning up the island nation’s human rights record.

A MAJOR upturn in the media business and the economy in general was predicted by influential British advertising and media commentator Martin Sorrell in Dublin yesterday.