The Human Leagure credit their home town with ensuring the fane game of the 1980s never went to their heads, writes Ed Power

An African-American man in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, died after officers pepper-sprayed him when he resisted arrest, police said.

An F-16 fighter jet has smashed into a small plane over the US state of South Carolina, killing two and scattering plane parts and debris over a wide area.

The parents of a boy with educational difficulties have been warned by a judge that they are making things worse by keeping him out of school.

The parents of a teenager who missed 381 days of school since 2012 have been given a chance to avoid jail.

Jessie Ware continues on the road to fame with a headline slot at MTV Crashes Cork, writes Ed Power.

English singer-songwriter Jessie Ware and London electro remix duo Gorgon City will headline MTV Crashes Cork, a one-off event later this month in City Hall.

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During the week I wrote a blog for the paper on the fate of Kevin Ware, the American basketball player who suffered a horrific injury last weekend.

Horrified team-mates wept as a player’s leg bone snapped during one of the most closely watched US college basketball games of the year.

Police in Papua New Guinea have charged two people over the grisly killing of a woman who was burned alive in front of hundreds of people, including young children, after being accused of witchcraft.

Elton John is has been announced as an unlikely headliner for Bestival 2013.

A FEDERAL judge yesterday upheld a gay judge’s ruling striking down California’s ban on same-sex marriage, noting that his fellow justice could not be presumed to have a personal stake in the case just because he was in a long-term same-sex relationship.

PRODUCERS of Australia’s Next Top Model have been left red-faced after supermodel host Sarah Murdoch announced the wrong winner during the live final in what newspapers said was the country’s most awkward TV moment.

The winner of 'Australia’s Next Top Model' gave a heartfelt acceptance speech in a live TV final – before the host realised she had announced the wrong name.

A TV presenter in Australia has caused a model muddle after she crowned the wrong woman as the winner live on air.

A US judge says a monopoly abuse lawsuit against Apple and AT&T’s mobile phone unit can go ahead as a class action.

Irish light welterweight Jamie Kavanagh marked his professional debut with a TKO win over American William Ware at Madison Square Garden last night.

A US Marine at the centre of the biggest prosecution of US troops in the Iraq war should be tried for the lesser offence of negligent homicide instead of murder, an investigating officer said.

SOME of the 12 coal miners who died following an explosion in West Virginia left notes behind assuring family members their final hours trapped underground were not spent in agony, a relative said yesterday.

Some of the 12 coal miners who died following an explosion in West Virginia left notes behind assuring family members that their final hours trapped underground were not spent in agony, a relative said today.

Two pop stars have teamed up with human rights charity Amnesty International to create an art installation highlighting violence against women.

American forces pushed through the centre of the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah today, fighting bands of guerrillas in the streets and conducting house-to-house searches on the second day of a major offensive to retake the Iraqi city from Islamic militants.

THE camera shows the suicide bomber warmly embracing a group of masked men. There are kisses on the cheek and a shot of him in the cab of a truck — his fingers resting on what appears to be a detonator.

A reporter with Time Magazine has received video footage of a suicide bomber chronicling his final hours right up to his deadly mission.

A top loyalist named as the man who ordered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane’s murder could now find his own life under threat, it was claimed tonight.