Guns ‘n’ Poses were the order of the day for Enda Kenny on the campaign trail.

McDonald's is to open its first vegetarian restaurant.

Rajesh Khanna, the first actor to gain superstar status in Indian movies during a near three-decade reign at the top of the Bollywood film industry, died aged 69 today after a brief illness.

THE recent capture of the Bosnian Serb war leader and general Ratko Mladic and the declaration of his being fit to stand trial for war crimes, most notably Srebrenica in 1995, has brought with it its own irony.

AN Indian woman gave birth to a baby in the bathroom of an international passenger plane and tried to dispose of it down the toilet, according to media reports in New Delhi.

RELATIVES of some of the 329 people killed during one of the world’s deadliest terrorist attacks will gather in west Cork this week to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Air India disaster.

SO has justice finally been delivered? Years late and at great financial cost, the Bloody Sunday inquiry has finally reported.

TWO protesters were killed in India’s Punjab state yesterday in fierce rioting sparked by the shooting dead of a guru in fighting between rival Sikh communities in Austria, police said.

Virgin and EasyJet are to team up with an Asian airline to create the world's first budget global network.

A court today sentenced former Indian cricket player turned politician Navjot Singh Sidhu to three years in prison for killing a man during a scuffle triggered by a car parking argument in 1988, news reports said.

A public inquiry into the botched investigation into the Air India terror bombing that killed 329 people has begun in Canada.

EVERY now and then I come across an exciting food writer. I have just come across an Indian cook called Monisha Bharadwaj. I should have known about her sooner as she has written several award-winning books.

Jeremy Hainsworth, Vancouver

A Canadian judge today acquitted two Indian-born Sikhs of murder and other charges relating to the deaths of 331 people in bomb outrages on an Air India plane over the Atlantic and at Tokyo’s airport 20 years ago.

TWO men charged in the deadliest terrorist attack on a commercial airliner prior to September 11 will learn their fate in a Canadian courtroom today, as a judge delivers his verdict in the Air India bombings that killed 331 people off the coast of Cork.

The two men charged in the deadliest terrorist attack on a commercial airliner prior to September 11 will learn their fate in a Canadian courtroom tomorrow as a judge delivers his verdict in the 1985 Air India bombings that killed 331 people.

Britain's foreign secretary Jack Straw praised India and Pakistan today for their agreement to resume bus services across the military line that divides Kashmir, and urged the long-time nuclear rivals to find a way to friendship.

FIRE engulfed the rear three coaches of a moving express train in northern India early yesterday, killing at least 39 passengers and injuring 20 others, police said.

At least 39 passengers died when three coaches of an express train caught fire in northern India early today, police said.

SERVING and retired gardaí, forensic and air accident investigators from Ireland are among witnesses listed to be called to give evidence at the trial of two men accused of the 1985 Air India atrocity.

THE LE Aisling was one of the first ships to arrive at the scene of the felled Air India Flight 182, around four hours after air traffic controllers at Shannon lost contact with the Boeing 747 jet airliner.

A SIKH militant has admitted killing 329 people on board an Air India jet that was blown up 110 miles south of the Cork coast in 1985.

A Sikh militant today today admitted killing 329 people who died on board an Air India jumbo jet when it was blown up in 1985.

Mumbai police have released a taped conversation between Bollywood superstar Sanjay Dutt and underworld chief Chhota Shakeel in which the mafia boss talks of killing heart-throb Hrithik Roshan.

The death toll of an accidental land mine explosion on the Indian side of the India-Pakistan border now stands at 22.

Authorities have rescued a teenage brother and sister who were tortured, starved and confined to their home in northern India for 15 years by their deranged mother.