Shamrock Rovers reignited their title challenge with this comfortable Dublin derby win over St Pat’s.

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US MARINES hiked through searing heat taking fire from small pockets of militants after landing in the Taliban-controlled southern region of tree-lined fields, mud homes and crisscrossing waterways in the first major operation under President Barack Obama’s strategy to stabilise Afghanistan.

FROM steaks to sushi to gallons of melting ice cream, restaurants, delis and bodegas around the city tossed out hundreds of pounds of perishable food just hours after the blackout zapped the Fried Apple.

A series of tornados today swept through the midwest United States, killing as many as 19 people and leaving a path of destruction a quarter-mile wide in some places.