Gunmen have wounded at least 19, including two children, in a Mother’s Day neighbourhood parade in New Orleans.

The purported guarantees from a Hong Kong developer was “significant”, AIB said, in fuelling its decision to loan money to property tycoon Achilleas Kallakis and Alexander Williams.

AIB was duped using “dishonest means” into lending £740m (€922m) to London property tycoon Achilleas Kallakis and his business partner Alexander Williams, jurors heard at Southwark Crown Court, London.

Sole Power bounced back to his best form to land the betfred.com Temple Stakes at Haydock as the ’Budapest Bullet’ Overdose failed to fire.

Impressive Newmarket winner Casual Glimpse has been supplemented for the Irish Thoroughbred Marketing Gimcrack Stakes at York on Wednesday.

John Prescott’s wife told today of the dramatic moment she found out her husband had had an affair.

We are in Miss Jean Brodie territory with this simmering sexual drama set in a 1930s girls’ school where the object of lust is teacher Miss G (Green) who runs the swim team, more swooning than swimming.

FARMERS in the European Union successfully responded to market signals by increasing cereal production by more than 50 million tonnes this year, but prices have reversed their upwards trend, according to Copa-Cogeca.

A FISHERMAN friend of two brothers who died when their boat sank in the North Sea more then two-and-a-half years ago has netted a small piece of skull bone belonging to one of the missing men.

Another terrific example of an outstanding documentary crossing over the mainstream, Temple’s look at the life and times of the iconic Strummer from the Clash.

British deputy prime minister John Prescott today declared that he had no intention of standing down.

SCOTLAND Yard confirmed tonight it is looking into a complaint that Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott broke the law by allegedly having sex with his secretary in his Whitehall office.

BRITISH deputy premier John Prescott faced renewed pressure over his conduct last night after his former secretary went public with lurid details of their two-year affair.

BRITAIN’S Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has admitted having a two-year affair with one of his secretaries.

Britain's deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has confessed to having an affair with one of his secretaries, it was reported today.

Managing director of Heathrow Airport Mick Temple has said days of delays face passengers at the airport after British Airways cancelled all its flights because of an unofficial walkout by baggage handlers.

Director Julien Temple is making a film about this year's Glastonbury Festival.

A man who has spent 26 years in prison protesting his innocence of murder today had his conviction dramatically quashed by the Court of Appeal in the UK.