Sunshine greeted residents of New York state in the United States today, giving crews a chance to haul away some of the eight feet of snow that has fallen in parts of the region during the past week.

A court in Pakistan today ordered the father of a British girl at the centre of a custody battle to surrender her passport.

THE mother of a 12-year-old girl suspected to have been abducted by her father to Pakistan yesterday made an emotional plea for her daughter to be returned home.

Amanpuri completed a hat-trick of successes at Fontwell with a typically gutsy performance to land the Weatherbys Bank Handicap Hurdle.

An inmate who took two prison guards hostage in one of the longest prison stand-offs in America’s history was sentenced to 16 consecutive life sentences.

Lennox Lewis today branded Mike Tyson a ‘‘cartoon character’’ after the former heavyweight champion said he wanted to kill him.

An international rescue operation is continuing off the Donegal coast for seven men missing after their trawler sank.

Eleven members of a family have been killed after fire gutted their home in southern Delaware.