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With a grandfather who became the world's first billionaire, David Rockefeller has seen it all and has more ahead of him, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

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It’s been 12 years since Thomas Ryan last competed at Millstreet International Horse Show, but he made sure his return was memorable yesterday by winning the Hyatt Hotels Grand Prix.

Sarah Ennis was "in shock" yesterday after achieving the biggest win of her career at Chatsworth Horse Trials in England.

Wexford’s Bertram Allen confirmed his status as a rising star of show jumping when riding Molly Malone V to victory in yesterday’s grand prix at Belgium’s nations cup show.

Uruguay’s Senate has approved the world’s first national marketplace for legal marijuana – an audacious and risky experiment that puts the government in charge of growing, selling and using a drug that is illegal almost everywhere else.

The driver whose speeding commuter train derailed along a curve, killing four people, nodded off at the controls before the crash, it has emerged.

A commuter train that derailed in New York, killing four passengers, was travelling at 82mph as it entered a 30mph curve, a US government investigator has said.

A train that derailed in New York City, killing four people and injuring dozens more, was travelling at 82mph as it approached a 30mph zone, officials have disclosed.

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A small, bespectacled German immigrant who invented a glamorous life for himself in the US by posing as an heir to the fabled Rockefeller fortune was sentenced yesterday to 27 years to life in prison for a California cold-case murder.

Tipperary brothers Trevor and Shane Breen were denied a one-two in the grand prix at the three-star show in Hardelot, France, yesterday.

A win wasn’t part of Vinnie Byrne’s grand design in yesterday’s HSI /Blue Grass Spring Tour at Maryville Equestrian Centre in Cork, so when it came it proved a nice bonus.

A US judge turned down a new trial request by a German-born man who called himself Clark Rockefeller.

Lawyers for a German who calls himself Clark Rockefeller said they would appeal against his kidnapping conviction, calling it "the first chapter" in the case.

A German con-man who posed as a member of the wealthy US Rockefeller dynasty was found guilty of kidnapping his own daughter from her London-based mother today.

Jurors in the kidnap trial of the German who calls himself Clark Rockefeller ended a third day of deliberations yesterday after asking the judge’s advice regarding an insanity defence.

US jurors in the kidnapping trial of the German who calls himself Clark Rockefeller face a third day of deliberations today.

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A lengthy US senate investigation has debunked claims by a Republican congressman that military analysts identified Mohamed Atta and other September 11 hijackers before the attacks.

The man chosen by US President George Bush to head the CIA will face the toughest test of his 37-year-old government career today when he faces a grilling by politicians over domestic spying operations.

US President George Bush sought to repair rocky relations with Europe yesterday, saying “no power on earth will ever divide us”. He urged allies to move beyond differences over Iraq in the interest of peace in the Middle East.

James Rockefeller, the oldest-known US Olympic medal winner and former head of the bank that became Citigroup, has died at 102.

A Senate report detailing serious flaws in US intelligence-gathering highlights the urgent need for a permanent CIA director given the current terrorist threat, leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee said.

DEPARTING CIA director George Tenet was blasted in the Senate Intelligence report, which accused him of skewing advice to top policy-makers with the CIA’s view and elbowing out dissenting views from other intelligence agencies overseen by the State or Defence Departments.

Former US President Richard Nixon called Ronald Reagan “strange” and an “uncomfortable man to be around,” according to White House tapes.

An adviser to the CIA has hinted that US and coalition staff were close to a breakthrough in the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

QUESTIONS over the legitimacy of going to war are also being raised across the Atlantic, with US President George W Bush heavily criticised for making false claims about Iraq seeking to buy uranium from an African state.