A lawyer for Ms Shelby said the officer was "elated" that the jury found her not guilty.

A white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man on a city street has been charged with first-degree manslaughter, prosecutors in Tulsa, Oklahoma, said.

Police have used tear gas to disperse protesters after officers were injured and a major road was shut down during a demonstration over the latest fatal shooting of a black man by US police.

BACK on the market, after a change of selling agent and a modest-enough price drop, is the family home called Shelby, out west of Cork city and Ballincollig, at Farran.

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Britain: A pair of off-duty police officers who made an arrest while dressed as a zebra and a monkey have been commended for their bravery.

Cork heartthrob Cillian Murphy and Love/Hate star Tom Vaughan-Lawlor are set to star in the highly anticipated BBC gangster series Peaky Blinders.

Charlie Sheen has hired Laura Bell Bundy to replace Selma Blair on 'Anger Management'.

Carroll Shelby, the car racer and designer who built the Shelby Cobra sports car and injected testosterone into Ford’s Mustang and Chrysler’s Viper, has died at 89.

Two top US senators have offered a bill to impose sweeping new penalties on Iran and thwart its alleged nuclear ambitions.

President Barack Obama’s auto taskforce has told sceptical US politicians that the government had no plans to pump more money into carmakers General Motors and Chrysler, and said the public had a “reasonable probability” of getting its money back.

Hardline Republican opponents of a US motor trade bail-out have branded the industry a “dinosaur” whose “day of reckoning” was near.

HOLLYWOOD actor Josef Cannon’s extraordinary six-year battle to get back his half-Irish daughter has gone to the Court of Appeal in London.

Seventeen people were found dead when authorities opened up a sweltering, airless trailer that had been abandoned at a south Texas highway service station with more than 100 illegal immigrants locked inside.

LAST week’s terror attacks in Kenya have highlighted another threat — surface-to-air missiles fired at commercial airplanes — and leaders of the US Senate Intelligence Committee say they anticipate more terrorist action ahead.

A car bombing in Indonesia that killed at least 187 people was condemned by US President George W Bush tonight as “a heinous act of terrorism”.

Six children died in a Louisiana house fire after rescuers were unable to fight their way through thick clouds of smoke.

US secretary of state Colin Powell has dismissed Iraq’s offer to talk to the United Nations’ chief weapons inspector.