Dan Craven (Rapha Condor Sharp) won today’s opening stage of the FBD Insurance Rás from Dunboyne to Dundalk after he bested Mark McNally of the An Post Sean Kelly team to the line in glorious sunshine.

Five people were shot as spectators left a crowded high school basketball game in what police said may have been a gang-related attack.

Germany coach Joachim Low has called three new faces into an experimental squad for his country's friendly match with England in Berlin next Wednesday.

A federal appeals court has overturned a judge’s order that Timothy McVeigh’s execution be videotaped for an unrelated case alleging the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment.