VIOLENCE, drunkenness and all manner of debauchery featured on a six-month voyage on a migrant ship bound for Australia 170 years ago, a newly discovered diary reveals.

A woman died today and nine people were injured when a bus crashed in to a tree in London, police said.

An architectural centre built in honour of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence was vandalised last night, only one week after it opened, police said.

More than half a million spectators are expected to descend on central London today as the Tour de France, the world’s biggest annual sporting event, hits town.

CORK’S Glucksman gallery has lost out to the controversial Scottish Parliament building to land Britain’s most prestigious architecture prize.

DEPRAVED killer Robert Howard strangled schoolgirl Hannah Williams with a 12-metre rope, it was revealed yesterday.

A SERIAL rapist, who is serving a life sentence for the murder of a 14-year-old girl in Britain, was investigated by gardaí in connection with the disappearance and murder of three Irish women, it has emerged.