Mexican authorities said four US citizens were shot dead in separate attacks in the border city of Ciudad Juarez.

Gunmen burst into a bar in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and killed six men and a woman, authorities said today.

A 1939 comic book in which Batman made his debut sold at auction for more than $1 million, breaking a record set just three days earlier by a Superman comic, Heritage Auction Galleries said.

Fifteen people, including a child, three women and a university professor, have been killed in a single day in the violent Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, authorities said today.

TWO South American prostitutes found running a brothel in an exclusive Limerick hotel had some of their fees returned to them by a judge yesterday to enable them to leave the city.

A military panel today sentenced sniper Jorge G Sandoval to five months in prison, reduction in rank and forfeiture of pay for planting evidence in connection with the deaths of two Iraqi civilians.

A cardinal mentioned as a possible future pope is being investigated for possible money laundering, Mexico’s justice department has confirmed.