Canadian police have said they hope the laying of child pornography charges against two teenagers in the Rehtaeh Parsons case will begin to ease the pain stemming from the 17-year-old girl’s death.

Despite being a loose grouping, Anonymous is concerned about its actions, says Winston Ross

Keeping the whole body as healthy as possible could be key to avoiding Alzheimer’s, a study has found.

THE idea that the opposition could have negotiated a better interest rate from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the recent bailout is “laughable,” according to Finance Minister Brian Lenihan.

A 100TH anniversary commemorative cruise retracing the route of the ill-fated Titanic in 1912, including a visit to Cobh in Cork, has attracted massive interest from people worldwide.

FEWER great white sharks are left in the oceans than there are tigers surviving on Earth, it was claimed yesterday.

A WOULD-BE hijacker surrendered to the authorities yesterday after releasing the last of more than 180 hostages he seized hours earlier aboard a Canadian charter jet in Montego Bay, Jamaica.

A gunman who hijacked a plane in Jamaica was captured after an eight-hour stand-off with police today.

A mentally ill gunman held six airline crew hostage today after forcing his way on to a jet at Jamaica’s Montego Bay airport.

FORMER Clare hurler, Tony Griffin, yesterday began a cycling odyssey across Canada and Ireland to raise more than €1 million for cancer research.

Belfast International Airport (BIA) launched a cross-border drive for custom today as it announced yet another new international route.

Further details of the fire which crippled a Canadian submarine and claimed the life of one of its seamen, as well as the heroic rescue effort to return the vessel and its crew safely to shore, were expected to emerge today.

Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin has revealed he may divert from his first major foreign tour to visit a hospital in Ireland where Canadian sailors were being treated after being rescued from a disabled submarine. But the detour depends on whether the sailors are well enough to see him.

A stricken Canadian submarine that was among a second-hand fleet sold by Britain's royal navy was not defective, a defence expert claimed today.

An Air France Concorde was forced to make an unscheduled landing in Halifax, Nova Scotia, today, due to an “engine glitch”, the airline said.

A mother and her teenage daughter were killed when the small plane they were flying from Scotland crashed on to a frozen lake in Labrador on Canada’s eastern seaboard.

A bomb threat against a Virgin Airlines jumbo jet with 314 people aboard caused four Canadian jet fighters to escort the flight to an unscheduled landing yesterday in Newfoundland.