IF he had called off his hunger strike, Bobby Sands would be 54 and still, very possibly, the MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone.

A co-ordinated series of explosions struck crowded shopping areas across the Indian capital today, killing at least 10 people and wounding at least 61, officials said.

PETREL RESOURCES, the Dublin-headquartered oil exploration company, has signed a framework case study agreement with the Iraqi Ministry of Oil concerning the Merjan Oil Field area of the troubled country.

Cincinnati Reds outfielder Dernell Stenson has been found dead in Chandler, Arizona, after apparently being shot and run over by a vehicle.

A SARS patient with diarrhoea infected other people in a Hong Kong apartment complex as the disease apparently spread into homes through a sewage pipe linked to poorly sealed water drains, an official report said yesterday.