Internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz was “killed by the US government”, his father told mourners.

Payments totalling $9.5m (€6.9m) that prosecutors say belonged to Hollinger International shareholders went instead to media mogul Conrad Black and four other executives, a company memo showed.

AN expert employed to value the patents left over from the collapse of Media Lab was then allowed to buy them, the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee yesterday heard.

LANCE ARMSTRONG bristled yesterday at a report that two former teammates admitted using performance-enhancing drugs, calling it “a hatchet job...to link me to doping through somebody else’s admission”.

THE former Tyco International executives accused of pilfering company funds for lavish homes and decadent parties spent the money like lottery winners, but they “didn’t win the jackpot, they stole it” a prosecutor said yesterday.