TWO people died in house fires in Co Mayo and Co Monaghan at the weekend.

Gardaí have named the two people who lost their lives in house fires yesterday.

The International Monetary Fund in Washington said today that a batch of mail had tested positive for anthrax.

Argentina’s top banker has resigned as mounting anger over draconian savings curbs pushed thousands of Argentines into fresh street protests and the value of the peso slumped to new lows.