Police were today investigating comments allegedly made on Twitter by BNP leader Nick Griffin about a gay couple at the centre of a landmark legal ruling.

The Cork-born jockey who broke his leg in last Saturday’s action-packed Grand National has described as ‘rubbish’ the suggestion the race is too dangerous.

Check out our tips from today’s horse races across Ireland and the UK.

Jamie Oliver is to bring his brand of healthy eating to a US town where half the adults are obese.

A small plane apparently low on fuel hit a power line and crashed into a wooded area near a West Virginia, USA, airport killing all six people aboard, authorities said today.

A mine company attorney today said safety experts believe drilling a bigger hole and sending a rescue capsule into the Utah coal mine where six men have been trapped for two weeks is impossible because the mountain is too unstable.

A disastrous cave-in killed three US rescue workers and injured at least six others who were trying to tunnel through rubble to reach six trapped miners in Utah, authorities said.

With their efforts to drill deep inside a Utah mountain yielding no signs of six trapped miners, exhausted rescuers pondered alternatives including drilling another hole big enough to accommodate a human-size capsule to get inside tunnel.

A video camera lowered into a Utah mine where six workers have been missing for more than five days shows “survivable space”, but attempts to signal the miners were met by silence.

A second drill broke through to a Utah mine shaft today and a video camera was lowered inside, searching for the fate of six miners believed to be trapped nearly 2,000 feet below.

The massive rescue effort to find six coal miners caught in a cave-in took a disheartening turn when a narrow hole drilled more than 1,800ft into the earth yielded no sounds of life and barely any oxygen.

A tiny microphone lowered deep into the earth this morning picked up no evidence that six coal miners are alive four days after they were caught in a cave-in.

TEAMS of rescuers frantically cleared debris from underground tunnels yesterday, trying to reach six US coal miners trapped by a cave-in beneath more than 1,500 feet of solid rock.

Hundreds of rescuers smashed through walls of rock in a desperate race to reach six coal miners trapped 1,500 feet below ground by a cave-in so powerful authorities initially thought it was an earthquake.

Six miners in the US were trapped tonight after a coal mine caved in.

A coal mine collapsed today in central Utah, trapping six miners, less than 20 miles from the epicentre of a minor earthquake, authorities said.

A West Virginia airport terminal was evacuated tonight after two bottles of liquid found in a woman’s carry-on luggage twice tested positive for explosives.

Peter Bowen has ruled Genghis out of the Greatwood Handicap Hurdle at Cheltenham on Sunday.

A CHALICE dumped into a lake when Cromwellian forces swooped on an open-air Mass 350 years ago, killing a priest, is to be the centrepiece of a Christmas morning homily.

A US town plans to drop the family crest of Oliver Cromwell from its official coat of arms following complaints that the former English ruler was responsible for the massacre of thousands of Irish Catholics.

HUNDREDS of people stood in line yesterday morning, some after waiting through the night, for the chance to get Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to autograph her new book.