THE men’s 800m could provide the highlight of this weekend’s IUAA (Inter-Varsities) championships hosted by Queen’s University Belfast where Darren McBrearty (DCU) renews rivalry with Niall Tuohy (UL).

AN American woman who allegedly plotted the real-life abduction of a man she met through the virtual reality website Second Life was charged with attempted kidnapping yesterday, US authorities said.

Senator Edward Kennedy had surgery to treat a cancerous brain tumour today, and his doctor said the procedure “was successful and accomplished our goals”.

Veteran US politician Edward Kennedy was undergoing surgery today on his cancerous brain tumour.

PEOPLE who find it impossible to give up smoking can blame their genes, new research suggests.

A STAR Trek-style “cloaking device” has been built using technology developed to make objects invisible.

A woman has been jailed for at least five years after pleading guilty to tying her son to a doorknob so tightly that he developed gangrene and lost a leg.

University chiefs in Virginia said today a Rolling Stones concert was halted because police received a bomb threat specifically targeting the stage area.

The Rolling Stones interrupted their show at the University of Virginia’s Scott Stadium early today, as police officers and three bomb-sniffing dogs searched the stage.

THERE is certainly something biblical, if not apocalyptic, about the current global extremes of fire and ice.

The Virginia Beach community was today in a state of shock after a shark killed a 10-year-old boy in the first fatal shark attack in the United States this year.