A US navy salvage team was preparing yesterday to launch a remotely operated submersible to confirm that wreckage discovered near the Bahamas was that of the cargo ship El Faro, lost in a hurricane last month along with its 33 crew members.

Greencore hasn’t ruled out the prospect of making more acquisitions in the US as part of its ongoing growth and investment strategy.

A daring second attempt to land a reusable rocket on a floating barge by a private space company has failed.

A daring second attempt to land a reusable rocket on a floating barge will be made today by a private space company.

Acclaimed jazz pianist Brad Mehldau talks to Ed Power about his influences, pop music, purists and all that jazz.

Google has chosen five charities to develop ideas that make use of its internet-connected Google Glass to enhance their work.

Greencore has said its US operations should have the capacity to generate up to $600m in annual revenues, once recently announced expansion plans come on stream.

ARECENT newspaper headline announced: “As great white shark Lydia closes in on UK, Brits brace for bloody mayhem on holiday beaches.” The “man-eater” with “razor-sharp teeth” will soon arrive here, we were told. She was “on course for Ireland”.

Wildlife experts cut away more than 280ft of commercial fishing line being dragged by an endangered right whale off the Georgia coast, though some of the heavy rope had to be left tangled in the whale’s mouth.

YOU’LL need to step outside Culhane’s Irish pub to realise how far you are from home.

A man who pleaded guilty to hacking into the email accounts of celebrities to gain access to nude photos and private information was sentenced to 10 years in prison by a federal judge in Los Angeles.

US President Barack Obama is embarking on a four-day march through battleground states and the storm-battered Gulf Coast in the lead-up to his party’s convention.

Greencore has acquired US snacks producer HC Schau & Son for around €15.5m, of which€10.4m is being paid in cash.

Bobby Brown has got married to his fiancee Alicia Etheridge.

A man has agreed to plead guilty to hacking into the email accounts of celebrities such as Christina Aguilera, Mila Kunis and Scarlett Johansson, whose nude photos eventually landed on the internet, according to court documents filed in Los Angeles.

POLICE have arrested a Florida man and charged him with 26 counts of cyber-related crimes against Hollywood celebrities following an 11-month federal probe dubbed ‘Operation Hackerazzi.’

A man has been charged with hacking into the emails of dozens of people, including Christina Aguilera, Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis, in a computer invasion scheme which targeted Hollywood celebrities, according to documents released today.

A BEATLES contract for a 1965 California concert that reveals that the Fab Four refused to play before a segregated audience has sold for $23,033 (€16,827) — more than four times its estimated price.

Mother Casey Anthony has been found not guilty of killing her two-year-old daughter in a case that captivated the US as it played out on national television from the moment the toddler was reported missing three years ago.

GOLDMAN Sachs Mortgage Co, owed nearly $200 million (€161.5m) by the Irish investors in Florida’s Sawgrass Marriott Resort, has failed in its bid to take over and sell off the company’s assets.

Bobby Brown is getting married again.

The remains of the first American lost in the Gulf War nearly two decades ago have been found in Iraq, the US military said today.

CONSIDERING his ongoing tendency to run up large numbers at one or more holes in almost every event he contests, Pádraig Harrington can hardly be looking forward to the Tournament Players Championship at the water-strewn Sawgrass course in Jacksonville, Florida.

Barack Obama’s 86-year-old grandmother died today, the presidential front-runner said.

A BRITISH airliner was among four deliberately diverted into a potentially dangerous thunderstorm area to test the skills of a trainee US air traffic controller, it was claimed yesterday.

Two US firms are to create 75 jobs in Limerick, it was announced today.

Paris Hilton's former business partner Feridoun 'Fred' Khalilian has been arrested for the second time in two days.

Teenager Rory McIlroy was today named in the Great Britain and Ireland Walker Cup team to face the United States next month.

Defence and engineering group BAE Systems today extended its presence in the US defence sector with the €3.4bn acquisition of Armor Holdings.

British Airways is to close its four call centres in the Caribbean because of reduced demand and the growth of the internet, the company said today.

Authorities in Panama City, Florida, today released a video tape showing guards restraining a boy at a juvenile detention boot camp just hours before he died.

A woman seen dropping her three young sons into San Francisco Bay from a downtown pier was charged with murder early today, as anguished relatives kept vigil and rescuers combed the chilly water for the bodies of two of the victims.

Renee Zellweger and Kenny Chesney have split - just four months after marrying in the Caribbean.

US federal emergency officials are directing hurricane-aid supplies to areas where hey aren’t needed, according to an Air Force official, causing delays that have left international aid shipments for Hurricane Katrina victims sitting at an Air Force base in Arkansas.

BRIDGET JONES actress Renee Zellweger and country music star Kenny Chesney have married in a small ceremony on the Caribbean island of St John in the US Virgin Islands.

THE adoptive parents of a 17-year-old boy who weighed three and a half stones when found in a home where he was forced to wear a nappy and sleep in a locked, cage-like bed have been charged with child neglect.

A year after the Janet Jackson boob, US television has come up with the perfect way to clean up its act at halftime of the Super Bowl on Sunday: hire Paul McCartney to entertain.

The Philadelphia Eagles filtered their pressure from past championship game failures squarely on the shoulders of Michael Vick.

Beatles legend Paul McCartney will take centre stage at next year’s Super Bowl to entertain fans during the half-time show, it was announced today.

Rock star Rod Stewart's daughter Ruby is carrying on the Stewart name by launching a singing career.

A clown who goes by the name of Spanky has been arrested on child porn charges while travelling with legendary the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus in the US.

The US Army has dropped all charges against a Muslim chaplain accused of mishandling classified documents at the naval base detention centre in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where suspected terrorists are held.

A former Muslim chaplain at the US military prison for terror suspects in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has been charged with disobeying orders by improperly handling classified information.