BRITAIN: Store giant Asda has unveiled what it describes as the UK’s first sweet red onion, promising to rid shoppers of tears and bad breath after eating.

A “human cannonball” stuntman was killed when a safety net intended to break his fall after he was fired into the air collapsed, an inquest in the UK has heard.

Britain's Royal Air Force launched Typhoon aircraft this afternoon to intercept a civilian aircraft which was causing concern to air traffic control authorities.

For most people, making a cup of tea for their colleague is a nice thing to do.

Two men have been found guilty in England of murdering an elderly woman whose body was found under the floorboards of a shop’s cellar.

Call us old fashioned but once upon a time you’d have to at least have a passing notion of the job you applied for to get the position.

The final hopefuls who have made it to the judges houses stage of The X Factor were revealed tonight.

Kanye West demanded that his dressing room carpet be ironed.

Ashley Cole is set to become the latest member of England’s 100-club next week - but there is likely to be more interest in Roy Hodgson’s midfield department when he names his squad to face Brazil tomorrow.

A British Royal Marine Commando will abseil with the Olympic flame into the Tower of London today.

MANCHESTER UNITED defender Chris Smalling admits he would not be where he is today without the two years he spent at Fulham. Smalling will show no mercy towards his old club tonight when United visit Craven Cottage hunting three more points in their quest to retain the Barclays Premier League title.

Ten people were hurt in a motorway pile-up in Britain today.

ALEX FERGUSON treats football management as if it were a game of chess and with only a few days until the new season begins, he has already shown he is several moves ahead of the rest.

Singer Pete Doherty was today warned he could face jail again after he pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine.

CHRIS SMALLING is determined to seize every opportunity to prove he is worthy of a Manchester United first team place.

WE are only six years away from commemorating the 1916 uprising which laid the foundations for a church and state Republic.

RIO FERDINAND is not thinking about the Manchester United captaincy at present – he is more concerned about getting his regular place back.

CHELSEA passed up the chance to sign Manchester United-bound Chris Smalling, right, for free, according to the player’s former manager at Maidstone.

Chris Smalling is struggling to come to terms with the meteoric rise which has seen him go from non-league footballer to Fulham’s hottest prospect in 18 months.

London: Fergus Wilson, the former mathematics teacher dubbed Britain’s buy-to-let “king,” says he’s selling 700 rental properties before interest rate rises bring “slaughter” to landlords in Britain’s housing market.

Police in the North have released a 45-year-old man arrested earlier this week in connection with the murder of six men at a pub in Co Down 14 years ago.

Pop superstar Madonna has announced she will be kicking off her world tour in the UK.

British prime minister Gordon Brown was today facing pressure from his own MPs for a radical change in direction after a nightmare at the polls saw Labour slump to its worst results for a generation.

More than half a million spectators are expected to descend on central London today as the Tour de France, the world’s biggest annual sporting event, hits town.

A WILL leaving a €27m farm in Kent, England to the farmer’s illegitimate daughter has been declared a forgery.

AT last Croke Park will be used to its full potential.

A Slovakian lorry driver has been arrested in connection with the discovery of two men found lying on a main road in the UK.

A private hotel and pub business which went into administration earlier this month is closing five hotels and 15 managed pubs with the loss of 220 jobs around the UK, it was announced today.

A seventh person has been charged in connection with the £53m (€76.55m) Securitas depot heist in the UK, police said tonight.

DETECTIVES investigating the multimillion pound Securitas robbery were last night involved in armed raids across England where the gang carried out their audacious heist.

DETECTIVES investigating the multi-million pound Securitas depot raid in Britain were engaged in an urgent hunt last night for the lorry used in the huge cash haul.

The AA motoring organisation gave a warning today that it planned to cut 100 jobs as part of a restructuring of two insurance-based call centres in the UK.

UK high street retailer Debenhams is understood to be considering lunching a rival bid for department store group Beatties, it was reported today.

House of Fraser today said a reluctance among householders to spend on big-ticket items had left recent sales in negative territory.

British department store group House of Fraser posted higher profits today but found its progress overshadowed by a sluggish start to the new financial year.

KEN DOHERTY’S search for his “holy grail” ended in customary failure at the Fáilte Irish Masters in Dublin yesterday.

Ken Doherty’s search for his “holy grail” ended in customary failure at the Failte Irish Masters in Dublin today.

American insurance broker Marsh & McLennan could cut hundreds of jobs in the UK this spring, it emerged today.

IRELAND’S new senior men’s hockey coach sees no reason why World Cup and Olympic Games qualification cannot be realistic goals during the coming four years.

Doing business with the Rev Ian Paisley‘s Democratic Unionists at some stage in the future is inevitable, Sinn Féin party president Gerry Adams claimed today.

THE decommissioning of all paramilitary weapons must be carried out on a convincing basis, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said last night.

US Senator Hillary Clinton and her husband, former US president Bill Clinton, will visit a peace centre in the North named after him today.

Former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds held secret talks with loyalists in their Belfast heartland 10 years ago to secure their ceasefire, he said tonight.

NORTHERN IRELAND Secretary Paul Murphy met with Democratic Unionists yesterday as the North’s parties prepare for an intensive push to restore devolution.