JESSICA Harrington’s Blaze Brightly, who had finished second three times previously, got it right for Fran Berry in the Median Auction Maiden at Listowel yesterday.

FAMOUS NAME is fancied to outclass his rivals in the Listed Heritage Stakes at Leopardstown tomorrow.

AN ELDERLY priest yesterday acknowledged he was naked in saunas with former US congressman Mark Foley decades ago when the latter was a boy in Florida, but denied the two had sex.

An eight-year-old girl who was raped and buried alive in a Florida landfill site told a friend she remembers her attacker towering over her before she passed out, then awoke seven hours later beneath a pile of rocks and concrete blocks when she heard the voices of rescuers.

US POLICE at Lake Worth in Florida won a race against time when an officer found a missing eight-year-old girl buried under rocks inside a bin, authorities said.

Eleven Cubans trying to sail to Florida in a 1950s Buick car converted into a tailfinned boat have been intercepted at sea by the US Coast Guard and are to be sent back home.