With Flight MH370 having been missing for over a month, lawyers are gearing up to fight for relatives seeking compensation. The US could be the battleground, writes Gillian Wong

Nine failed African asylum seekers who arrived back in Dublin Airport last year after their deportee flight was turned back are evading Irish authorities.

LAST weekend’s Monte Carlo Global Champions Tour (GCT) contest caused difficulties across the board and Billy Twomey feels it would be unfair to draw conclusions from the performance of any horse, including his own Tinka’s Serenade.

The exodus of foreigners from Cairo continued today as dozens of evacuation planes arrived, but the airport itself was still in disarray with crowds of more than 4,500 stranded passengers.

A BRITISH man with “locked-in syndrome” who cannot move anything except his head and eyes launched legal proceedings yesterday to end his life.

STAINED paper peeling from the walls, holes in the ceiling, tiles in the bathroom fallen to the floor, a toilet with no seat, no water and no paper.

A bomb exploded outside a Citibank branch in Athens, Greece, causing damage but no injuries.

A police union renewed its call for Taser stun guns today after Austriallian police officers shot dead a 15-year-old boy in a skate park who had threatened them with knives.

Ireland have finished in second spot in a league table of 39 nations based on the points achieved at the final Olympic qualifier for European boxers which concluded in Athens, Greece, yesterday.

Newly-qualified Irish 2008 Olympians, Ken Egan, Darren Sutherland and John Joe Joyce will be targeting treble gold today just 24 hours after securing their places at the 2008 Olympics at the second and final Olympic qualifier for European boxers in Athens, Greece on Friday afternoon.

Irish captain Ken Egan, Darren Sutherland and John Joe Joyce will all be in action today just one bout away from booking their tickets for Beijing at the final Olympic qualification tournament for European boxers at the Olympic Centre of Nikaia in Athens, Greece.

Five Irish boxers will be involved in quarter-finals bouts at the final Olympic qualifier for European boxers in Athens, Greece today.

Irish flyweight Conor Ahern and middleweight Darren Sutherland both won their preliminary round bouts at the final AIBA Olympic qualifier for European boxers in Athens, Greece today.

The 2008 National Senior Championships will begin on Tuesday, January 8 and run over four days before concluding on Friday, January 11, at the National Stadium in Dublin.

THE fact that Liverpool was not selected as one of the two European qualifying tournaments for next year’s Olympic Games did not come a great disappointment to Irish boxing’s high performance director, Gary Keegan.

Robert Plant has laughed off reports suggesting the existing members of rock supergroup Led Zeppelin are to reform for a tribute to late Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun.

A blood test to identify lung cancer in its early stages could potentially save millions of lives if initial results can be confirmed, researchers say.

Because Israel and Lebanon have never signed a peace accord, the countries remain officially in a state of war that has existed since 1948 when Lebanon joined other Arab nations against the newly formed Jewish state.

IRAN’S president declared in a letter to US President George W Bush that democracy had failed worldwide and lamented “an ever-increasing global hatred” of Washington.

Human rights crusader Bob Geldof yesterday blamed China for perpetuating the raging civil war in Sudan.

Negotiators from more than 100 countries have agreed to leave the United States in charge of the Internet’s addressing system, averting a US-EU showdown at this week’s UN technology summit.

The Cypriot airliner that crashed in Greece may have suffered a sudden loss of cabin pressure at high altitude, causing temperatures and oxygen levels to plummet and leaving everyone aboard suffocating and freezing to death, experts said yesterday.

GRIEVING relatives, many black-clad and weeping, arrived at a central Athens morgue yesterday to identify the remains of some of the 121 people - including 10 families - killed in Greece’s worst plane crash.

Hollywood action star Jackie Chan has been chosen to represent China and carry the Olympic torch on its journey to the summer games in Athens, Greece.

FOUR years of careful planning, 7,000 athletes, 85,000 spectators, a worldwide audience of millions and one unforgettable spectacle.

AN estimated six million people around the world marched in protest against a US-led war on Iraq.

France and Germany tonight reached a deal on farm spending that boosted chances of success at an EU summit to finalise the bloc’s expansion into eastern Europe.

Israel eased travel restrictions on the Gaza Strip today, despite mortar attacks on Jewish settlements in Gaza and an Israeli village outside the fence.

Israelis and Palestinians have traded mortar fire in the Gaza Strip, while the two sides also held high-level political talks.