THE prosecuting counsel in the trial over the murder of Michaela Harte has accused the defence of playing “delaying tactics” in a bid to freeze the preliminary enquiry into the case.

FOUR hotel workers have appeared in court in Mauritius in connection with the murder of Michaela Harte who was strangled on her honeymoon.

Four hotel workers have now appeared in court in Mauritius, charged in connection with the murder of Michaela McAreavey.

The widower of murdered honeymooner Michaela McAreavey has described her as the “rock” of his life as he prepares to bring her body home from Mauritius.

There are unconfirmed reports that two of the suspects in the murder of Michaela McAreavey in Mauritius have confessed to her murder.

VISITING the slum of lower Raboto, the first thing that hits western senses is the smell. It is hard to imagine that any human could live here. Yet thousands do and pay rent for the privilege.

Heavy rains threaten the waterlogged southern border of Haiti and Dominican Republic even as rescue workers rush to collect decomposing bodies and reach villagers cut off days ago when torrents and mudslides buried entire communities.

HELICOPTERS loaded with drinking water and medicine touched down yesterday in remote villages devastated by floods in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

US and Canadian troops rushed medical supplies, drinking water and chlorine tablets today to flood-battered towns where bodies were floating near the tops of palm trees and thousands of marooned survivors were in desperate need of aid.

AMERICAN and Canadian troops yesterday rushed to a town left completely submerged by flooding and where health officials feared 1,000 people could be dead in that town alone.

Haitians turned to US-led troops and international agencies for help as the death toll climbed to about 900 following floods that ravaged Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Hundreds more were missing and presumed dead.