A US judge has denied a request from a small Virginia company to stop online auction giant eBay from using a feature that allows shoppers to buy items at a fixed price.

Christmas Day shootings in the United States left five people, including the gunman and his mother, dead, police said tonight.

ALTHOUGH there was little to choose between all the contenders in yesterday’s opening two rounds, Marshals Supreme is taken to get the better of Leading Oscar in the final of the Derby Trial Stake at the Knockgraffon coursing meeting in New Inn, Co. Tipperary.

A TEENAGER who wrote about wanting to do “horrible things” has been jailed for 50 years for trying to kill a woman by driving onto a pavement to hit her with his 4X4 vehicle.