A British aid worker in southern Bangladesh has said smoke from burning villages is blackening the horizon as hundreds of thousands of the ethnic minority Rohingya flee violence in Burma.

Gardaí in Ballymun have issued an appeal for information on the two cars used by the gunmen who shot dead an innocent mother-of-six and a young locksmith there last week.

Sixteen people spent the night in a hotel, after their homes were damaged in an apartment complex fire in Dublin.

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A man has died after falling from an apartment in north Dublin.

Tributes have been paid to a "highly talented" Cork pilot who was tragically killed in a road crash in Co Limerick.

An eerie silence hung over the scene of the London helicopter crash where mangled metal and the remains of a burnt-out car told of the horrors which unfolded in central London today.

Businessman Ben Dunne confirmed yesterday that his gym business recorded an operating profit of around €1.7m last year and is due to open three new gyms in Ireland and Britain this year.

A Polish man serving a nine-year sentence for slashing a prostitute during a Dublin burglary is wanted in his home country on robbery charges.

The Iraq Inquiry met behind closed doors today to hear evidence from the general who ran the British operations in the conflict, it has been revealed.

French soldiers successfully defended two fishing boats from capture by pirates in the Indian Ocean, and 11 men suspected of involvement in the failed attack were pursued at sea and captured, officials said.

A British shipping union chief called for tougher action against piracy after a British-owned vessel was seized by Somalians in the Gulf of Aden.

CARLISLE Heath & Fitness Club, the Dublin gym owned by Ben Dunne, saw its profits almost double last year.

BRITISH Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon said yesterday that any abuse of Iraqi prisoners by British troops would be “rooted out” amid accusations his government had “lost its grip” on Iraq policy.

A ‘MICROBEAM’ that zaps individual cancer cells with a stream of particles could revolutionise radiotherapy, it was revealed yesterday.

More than 25 anti-war protesters have been arrested as they held a sit-in demonstration outside a major strategic military base in Britain.

Comedy actress Pat Coombs has died at the age of 75.

Pacific rower Jim Shekhdar said a school of tuna fish saved his life.