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With fireworks, dancing and late-night revelry, millions around the world welcomed 2014.

Exploding fireworks sprayed from the sails of the Sydney Opera House and the Australian city’s harbour bridge at midnight as the world ushered in a new year.

A double-decker tourist bus has crashed against a bridge that was too low for it in Munich, Germany today.

Swedish Princess Madeleine fell in love in the Big Apple. Now she has said "yes" to New York banker Christopher O'Neill in a lavish wedding ceremony in Stockholm.

A woman has claimed she suffered chronic carbon monoxide poisoning due to an alleged oil leak from the turbo charger of her BMW Mini Clubman car.

A murder suspect on Interpol’s most wanted list is believed to be in Ireland.

The Lenehans are looking to a brighter future after a ‘torturous’ case against the HSE on behalf of their daughter, writes Noel Baker

DERRY-based Premier Electrics has seen its sales grow from £18 million (€21.75m) in 2010 to £27m (€32.6m) in 2011.

Robbie Williams is finishing off 30 songs for his new solo album.

U2 frontman Bono has revealed his frustration at cancelling last year’s Glastonbury performance by releasing a video filmed in his hospital bed.

Egypt’s largest opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, said it would begin talks today with the government to try to end the country’s political crisis.

U2 have cancelled their headline slot at Glastonbury after lead singer Bono was told to rest for at least two months following emergency surgery.

U2 have pulled out of performing at the Glastonbury Festival.

ASTRONOMERS who have taken a close-up look at the heart of the Milky Way say that “beyond any reasonable doubt” a giant black hole lurks at our galaxy’s core.

An Irish rowing team of seven boats has been announced to compete in the opening regatta of the FISA World Cup series next week at the 1972 Olympic regatta course in Munich, Germany.

Amy Winehouse has defended her performance at Thursday's MTV European Music Awards - citing exhaustion for her bizarre behaviour.

AMY WINEHOUSE was a winner at the MTV Europe Music Awards last night with a prize voted by her peers.

Seven Irish boats; five of them in Olympic classes will take to the water in Lucerne, Switzerland this weekend for the final leg of this year’s Rowing World Cup series.

Russia's top prosecutor told his British counterpart today that Russia could prosecute the chief suspect in the Alexander Litvinenko killing if Britain presents sufficient evidence, the Interfax news agency reported.

Top negotiators from Iran are to meet representatives of the major powers seeking to halt parts of its nuclear programme for the first time since February, a European Union official said today.

Tehran’s chief nuclear negotiator and the head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency planned to meet today, just hours before the agency was scheduled to issue recommendations on withdrawing technical aid for some nuclear projects run by Iran.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is recovering after undergoing an operation in Germany on a key artery in the neck that supplies blood to the brain, his foundation said today.

European mobile phone makers Nokia and Siemens AG are expected to announce today that they have agreed to combine their telephone equipment operations in a deal valued at €25bn.

David Richards’ Prodrive outfit will join the Formula One grid from 2008, world governing body the FIA have confirmed.

Thousands of Syrians enraged by caricatures of Islam’s revered prophet torched the Danish and Norwegian embassies yesterday – the most violent in days of furious protests by Muslims in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

Steven Spielberg has welcomed criticism of Munich, because he views the buzz surrounding the film as a marker of its success.

Mariah Carey was left devastated last week when a thief stole a gold record from her dressing room just moments after it was presented to her.

Steven Spielberg has been criticised by the only surviving Palestinian terrorist behind the massacre at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany, because the director failed to consult him over his new movie dramatisation of the tragic events.

DOZENS of parents, desperate to find missing children after massive tidal waves battered southern Thailand, turned up at a local hospital hoping that an unidentified two-year-old boy was theirs.

SCOTTISH First Minister Jack McConnell is to visit Dublin next Tuesday to see how the smoking ban is working.

Responding to a request from Greece, the US has committed 400 Special Forces soldiers to help protect the Olympic Games next month, an American counter-terror official said today.

A 42-year-old Louth man has been found guilty of the murder of a young German woman in Co Meath in 2001 at the Central Criminal court today.

A jury has retired to a hotel for the night after failing to reach a unanimous verdict in the trial of a Louth man accused of murdering a young German woman in 2001.

The trial of a Louth man charged with the murder of a young German woman in 2001 concluded at the Central Criminal court today with closing speeches heard from both prosecution and defence counsels.

DNA profiling carried out on the body of a young German woman revealed a match with that of the man accused of her murder, a jury at the Central Criminal court heard today.

A man accused of murder admitted to a garda inspector that he went back to the victim’s body days after her death, removed some of her clothing and hid them in a graveyard skip, it was alleged at the Central Criminal court today.

Twelve people died and dozens more were injured when a German bus en route to Paris swerved off the highway at the Belgian-French border early today and burst into flames.

Former WBO heavyweight champion Vladimir Klitschko crushed Argentine Fabio Moli in just one minute 49 seconds at the Olympiahalle in Munich, Germany.

There are to be 90 job losses when Software Spectrum announced that it was to close its teleservices centre on Merrion Road, Dublin.

Donald Rumsfeld is warning Europe that delaying preparations for war in Iraq could make a conflict more likely.

US Defence Secretary Donald H Rumsfeld warned wary Europeans today that delaying preparations for war in Iraq could make that war more likely while undermining both the Nato alliance and the United Nations.