A US woman has been charged with removing body parts from the corpse of her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend.

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Couples affected by infertility will have access to a clinic in Cork following the decision by Dublin-based Sims IVF to expand beyond the capital.

BY the time we hit 30, most women have been bitten by the baby bug.

Fertility treatment options in Cork are set to expand on foot of a partnership between a leading Dublin clinic and a Cork service that currently treats male infertility only.

Australia’s competition regulator has given Qantas Airways and Emirates final approval to form a five-year global alliance, with special conditions for flights across the Tasman Sea.

Accepting the use of donated eggs brings on a classic conflict between head and heart, reports Helen O’Callaghan

A 21-year-old man has been arrested by the US Secret Service for allegedly posting threats to kill President Barack Obama on Twitter.

AMERICANS Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims shared the 2011 Nobel Prize for Economics yesterday for providing ways to understand the impacts of policy changes or shocks like surging oil prices on output, inflation or employment.

Americans Thomas Sargent and Christopher Sims have won the Nobel economics prize “for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy”.

Britney Spears' cousin and former assistant insists the press and emergency services made far too much of the incident which sparked the pop star's alleged breakdown at the beginning of 2008 - stating the singer just wasn't ready to end a visitation with her sons.

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Britney Spears' cousin Alli Sims is set to make a bid for reality TV stardom.

Britney Spears' cousin Alli Sims is set to follow in the footsteps of her famous relative - and launch her own pop career.

Britney Spears' cousin Alli Sims has spoken out in defence of her relative - insisting the star is a "wonderful person".

Britney Spears today defended her parenting and hit back at her critics, lamenting "how cruel our world can be".

Britney Spears' re-hired assistant, Ally Sims, was served with court papers early on Sunday morning at a house party.

Britney Spears has reportedly hired her namesake Brittany Murphy's ex-fiancé - as her new manager.

Nearly one in three Air New Zealand international flights will be cancelled over six days from July 18 if the majority of the carrier’s long-haul cabin staff goes on strike, the company warned today.

Ireland have comfortably earned a facile victory in their One-Day International at Stormont.

FOLLOWING the discovery in New York of a man feared dead after September 11, another ‘victim’ of the attacks has been found alive and well.

A MAN listed as missing in the World Trade Center attacks has been found alive in a New York hospital — almost a year after the atrocity.

A car bomb in Birmingham city centre would have caused ‘‘very serious loss of life’’ if it had detonated fully, police said tonight.

Joan Sims, famous for her roles in the Carry On movies, has died aged 71.