A US nurse who vowed to defy a quarantine order for health care workers who have treated Ebola patients has left her home again.

A US nurse who is in isolation after treating Ebola patients in west Africa says she is prepared to go to court if the state tries to quarantine her.

An Irishman linked to a criminal clan has pleaded guilty to charges he used forged documents to sell horns from endangered black rhinos to a New York collector for more than €35,000.

An Irishman linked to a criminal clan pleaded guilty today to charges he used forged documents to sell horns from endangered black rhinos to a New York collector for more than £30,000.

Desperate European travellers stranded overseas struggled to find a way home, clamouring for information on flights into the continent’s few airports not closed by the dangerous cloud of ash from an Icelandic volcano.