A growing number of Irish parents prefer to send their children to private fee paying schools rather than place their faith in state education, a new survey released today reveals.

Nine Britons on a pilgrimage tour in Jordan were killed in a bus crash today.

A week before his death, Marlon Brando, aged and ill, was at work making script changes for a new movie, Brando and Brando, that was to start shooting this month.

Despite a couple of surprise results in the first two rounds the holder Neil Manchip remains as favourite to retain the title in this bi-annual championship.