Brian Canty gets a Rocky Mountain ride on the ultimate road trip with his father in Colorado — where the mountains are high along with the people.

ENGLAND: Annual sales of vinyl albums have soared past the million mark for the first time in 18 years —buoyed by veteran rock act Pink Floyd.

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US authorities have called on thousands more people in the flood-ravaged city of Boulder, Colorado, to evacuate as a nearby creek began rising to dangerous levels.

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Staff at Irish animation studio Boulder Media learned they had won their first International Emmy at the weekend via Facebook.

A hungry black bear that wandered on to the University of Colorado campus and caused a stir before falling from a tree has been returned to the wild.

A black bear who wandered on to a university campus in Colorado fell safely from a tree after being tranquillised and was later relocated to the nearby Rocky Mountains.

An award-winning Irish animation company has lined up a jobs boost after securing a contract to make a new Disney comedy cartoon.

Pakistan’s army has rejected a US investigation into the Nato air strikes that killed 24 of its soldiers.

A highway sign in the US warned motorists that zombies were ahead.

A planet with a fiery comet-like tail has been discovered in a distant solar system.

A 5.0-magnitude earthquake rocked mining towns in the state of Western Australia, collapsing roofs in buildings and causing the closure of at least one gold mine.

THE murder of child beauty contestant JonBenet Ramsey 12 years ago will be investigated by a new police task force as a cold case.

THE family of JonBenet Ramsey still hopes the killer of the 6-year-old beauty queen will be found.

Prosecutors finally cleared JonBenet Ramsey’s parents and brother of the six-year-old beauty queen’s killing in 1996, telling the family they were “deeply sorry” for putting them under a cloud of suspicion for more than a decade.

Prosecutors announced today that new DNA tests have cleared JonBenet Ramsey’s family in the 1996 killing of the six-year-old beauty queen, finally freeing them from the “umbrella of suspicion” that has lingered for more than a decade.

ENDANGERED species may be 100 times more at risk of extinction than most experts believe, it was claimed yesterday.

Authorities searched a home in the US state of Colorado early today, seeking any link between two deadly shooting sprees at Christian religious centres that left both communities baffled and stunned.

A gunman killed two members of staff at a US missionary training centre after being told he could not spend the night there.

A GUNMAN walked into a dormitory for young Christian missionaries in the US yesterday and opened fire, killing two people and wounding two others.

A gunman walked into a dormitory for young Christian missionaries in the US early today and opened fire, killing two people and wounding two others.

New photographs from space suggest that water occasionally flows on the frigid surface of Mars, raising the possibility that the Red Planet is hospitable to life, scientists reported tonight.

A provocative new study of photographs taken from orbit suggests that liquid water flowed on the surface of Mars as recently as several years ago, raising the possibility that the Red Planet could harbour an environment favourable to life.

John Mark Karr, who was briefly a suspect in the JonBenet Ramsey killing, has arrived in California to face child pornography charges, US authorities said.

The DNA mismatch between John Mark Karr and evidence in the JonBenet Ramsey murder was a setback for prosecutors, but they promised to continue searching for the six-year-old beauty queen’s killer.

Murder suspect John Karr will appear in a Colorado court on Monday over the killing of the child beauty queen.

JonBenet Ramsey murder suspect John Karr arrived today in the Colorado city where the six-year-old was killed to face charges in a case prosecutors said was still in its “very early stages”.

Relatives of John Mark Karr today offered the movie and book rights to the family’s story in the hope of hiring a high-level attorney to defend the schoolteacher against charges he killed six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey.

John Mark Karr, the suspect in the killing of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, arrived in the US after a 15-hour flight from Thailand on which he sipped champagne, dined on fried king prawns and roast duck, and exchanged what he described as “small talk” with law enforcement escorts.

Thai authorities today barred access to murder suspect John Mark Karr as varying accounts of what he said about the death of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey raised questions as to whether his confession could help solve the decade-old case.

For a moment, it seemed the decade-old mystery surrounding the slaying of a child beauty queen had been solved. But authorities have cautioned against rushing to judge the schoolteacher who made a stunning confession that he killed JonBenet Ramsey.

MOST Americans knew JonBenet Ramsey only in death — as the blonde-haired little girl in the pink cowgirl outfit, bouncing across the stage with a million-dollar smile.

An American expatriate school teacher said publicly today he was with JonBenet Ramsey when she died in what he called “an accident", a stunning admission after a decade without answers in the six-year-old’s murder.

A SEVEN-YEAR-OLD boy hiking with his family has been attacked by a mountain lion in Boulder, Colorado. The cat was later killed by a wildlife officer.

New satellite observations show that sea ice in the Arctic is melting faster while air temperatures in the region are rising sharply, scientists say.

New observations by the international Cassini spacecraft reveal that Saturn’s trademark shimmering rings, which have dazzled astronomers since Galileo’s time, have dramatically changed over the past 25 years, it was announced today.

The international Cassini spacecraft has sent ultra-violet images of Saturn’s rings that show there is more ice towards the outer part of the planet’s halos.

Alien astronomers on planets in other star systems almost certainly have the Earth listed as a world teeming with life, a leading scientist claims.