Fears of the ebola virus have deepened with word that a second US nurse caught the disease from a patient and flew across the country’s mid-west aboard an airliner the day before she was diagnosed.

A fourth child has died following a house fire early today which police are treating as suspicious.

Damien McGrane confessed he felt bound to advise Jose Manuel Lara he had caught his caddy trying to hide an illegal 15th club in bushes during Thursday’s first round of the BMW International Open.

Walnuts are top of the tree when it comes to heart-healthy nutty superfoods, research has shown.

POPCORN is the latest and most unlikely food shown to have health-boosting properties.

COFFEE is likely to contribute far more health-giving antioxidants to the Irish diet than fruit and vegetables, research suggests.

THREE glasses of cranberry juice a day could reduce heart disease risk by 40%, a US study has found.

US president George Bush has agreed to work for a peaceful resolution of the North Korean nuclear crisis, a spokeswoman said today, as a US aircraft carrier docked off the South’s coast in a show of military might.

Two more WorldCom executives have pleaded guilty to charges arising from the company's accounting scandal.

Three former WorldCom executives may plead guilty and cooperate with prosecutors investigating America’s biggest accounting scandal.

Police in California have doubled security near the Golden Gate Bridge after Spanish police seized videos of it from suspected al-Qaida terrorists.