SCOTLAND: Comic Darren Walsh has scooped a prize after showing off the pundamentals of his craft at the Edinburgh Fringe.

A 13-year-old boy shot dead his six-year-old brother, wounded his 16-year-old sibling, then fatally turned the gun on himself after an argument over food, police in Florida have said.

Social media giant Twitter celebrates its ninth birthday today, and to mark the occasion the site has been recalling some of the biggest posts from its history.

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In news that will surprise no one, a man wearing a t-shirt that said " I have drugs" was arrested by police - and found to have drugs in his possession.

USA: A New Mexico man who thought he hit the jackpot with a lottery scratch card will not be getting the $500,000 (€422,000) he believed he had won, after officials determined that matches were due to a printing malfunction.

’GIMP’ MAN

Rocks from Mayo, accounted for in the chaos following 9/11, lie at the core of a Famine memorial in New York, just a stone’s throw from Ground Zero, says Bette Browne.

5-year-old mayor loses re-election in Minnesota

Eye witnesses claim a train that derailed in New York yesterday, killing four people, was travelling faster than normal.

A New York City commuter train derailed on a sharp bend yesterday, killing four people and injuring dozens more.

A passenger train derailed in New York today killing four people and injuring 63 others as it came to rest just inches from the water, authorities said.

Jutting up against the misery of Cork’s defeat on Saturday was a glimmer of hope for Rebel exiles watching from afar in pubs at unforgivable hours, some serving drink much too early and some not serving at all.

If you believe the cavemen who scream “Mashed potatoes’, “Get in the hole’, “You the man” or “Baba Boey’ are headed for extinction under a new draconian security policy by golf’s tours, think again.

US authorities have accused two New York men of assembling a portable X-ray weapon that they intended to use to secretly sicken opponents of Israel.

Steven Spielberg’s US Civil War epic Lincoln led the Golden Globes with seven nominations, among them best drama, best director for Spielberg, and acting honours for Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, and Tommy Lee Jones.

The battered US East Coast took the first steps back towards daily routine today, even as rescuers combed areas strewn with debris and scarred by floods and fire.

Singer and actress Jennifer Hudson shut her eyes as a police officer described finding her dead family members and later left the courtroom before harrowing photos of their bodies were shown.

CHRISTMAS shopping in New York may no longer be a popular pastime in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland except for one group of Lotto winners.

IT’S A grey and misty morning in New Jersey.

AT the turn of the last century, as the hem of American society was dampened by wave after wave of European immigrants, the Irish stretched out their legs beneath the table, threw a cap onto the coat hook behind the closing door and made themselves at home.

The hero pilot who landed a jet safely on the Hudson River, saving scores of lives, is retiring after 30 years – and plans to campaign for better flight safety.

TWO minutes after he cleared a private plane for takeoff and a fateful flight over the Hudson River, an air traffic controller at New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport was on the phone with a woman in the airport operations office, joking about barbecuing a dead cat.

An air traffic controller on duty during last week’s deadly midair collision over New York’s Hudson River was talking on the phone at the time, safety officials said today.

Divers pulled a helicopter and four more bodies out of New York’s murky Hudson River in their search for victims, wreckage and explanations from the mid-air collision of a sightseeing helicopter and a light aircraft that killed nine people.

A Boeing 747 used by the US president was escorted over lower Manhattan by an Air Force fighter yesterday, causing a brief panic among office workers near the site of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

THE pilot of US Airways Flight 1549, which ditched into New York’s Hudson River last month, calmly radioed to air traffic controllers: “We’re going to be in the Hudson.”

A black box recording of the moments leading up to the crash of a passenger jet in a New York river has revealed the pilot calmly announced “we are gonna be in the Hudson” before downing the plane in the icy waters.

Hundreds of people holding signs and waving American flags cheered wildly to honour the pilot who safely landed a US Airways jet in New York’s Hudson River.

A newly-released security camera tape shows the emergency ditching of US Airways Flight 1549 in New York’s Hudson River.

Salvage crews have hoisted a US Airways jetliner from the Hudson River and onto a barge days after its pilot made a split-second decision to attempt a water landing to avoid a “catastrophic” crash over populated areas.

Plane crash investigators will today attempt to recover the wreckage of a passenger jet that plummeted into New York’s Hudson River, miraculously leaving no-one seriously hurt.

The pilot who miraculously landed a plane on New York’s Hudson River without any loss of life was today coming to terms with his new-found hero status.

A plane crashed into the Hudson River in New York today, sending passengers fleeing for safety in the freezing water.

A US Airways plane has crashed into the Hudson River in New York, emergency services said.

Sopranos creator David Chase said he felt “absolutely sick” when he learned a former judge was trying to take credit for the popular mob drama which he described as “me, my mother, my uncles”.

Sopranos creator David Chase said he has always been interested in the life of the mob as he described his dealings with a former judge who claims he is owed compensation today.

Sopranos creator David Chase appeared in court today after he was sued over his involvement in the popular mob drama.

A torrential downpour sent water surging through New York’s tube system, highway tunnels and across airport runways, leaving thousands stranded and one big question: How could 3ins of rain bring the country’s largest transport system to a halt?

WELL, that’s easy for Tom Waits or Bruce Springsteen to say.

NAOMI CAMPBELL, wearing black stilettos and slinging dark work boots over her shoulder, traded the catwalk for community service yesterday at a sanitation garage to start a five-day sentence for assaulting her maid.

A wily young coyote led dozens of police on foot and in a helicopter on a chase through New York’s Central Park, at one point leaping over an eight-foot fence before finally being captured.

Coronation Street actor Johnny Briggs says he is lucky to be alive after a car nearly hit him.

Workers at the remains of the World Trade Centre have been exposed to dangerous levels of toxic chemicals and suffered unnecessary injuries, it was revealed today.