A guard hailed a hero after the shooting dead of a gunman who stormed the Canadian parliament last year has been unveiled as the country’s new ambassador to Ireland.

The husband of a woman who died following a stabbing at her home was tonight charged with her murder.

The husband of a woman who died following a stabbing in her home was tonight being questioned by murder squad detectives after handing himself in.

The US Supreme Court halted the execution of a condemned man after a lawsuit challenged one of the drugs used to carry out the death sentence.

To Dr Michael L Vickers, a dead cow lying in a remote pasture of a South Texas ranch in 1981 was no different from the hundreds of other felled cattle he had seen.