The N11 Dublin to Wexford Road is closed in both directions, north of the Arklow Bypass, following a crash between a truck and a car.

Anguished relatives voiced frustration as poisonous gases prevented rescuers from entering a New Zealand coal mine today, a day after a powerful blast left 29 workers missing underground.

A man being questioned over the disappearance of a man from Wicklow has had his period of detention extended until Monday.

A post mortem will be carried out today on human remains found in a shallow grave in Co Wicklow.

Gardaí have begun a forensic examination this morning of the area where a body believed to be that of a man previously reported as missing was found in Wicklow.

Gardaí will carry out a forensic examination today of the area where a body believed to be that of missing man was found in Wicklow.

Gardaí investigating the disappearance of Stephen O'Meara have discovered what appears to be a body in a shallow grave in Wicklow.

A GIRL who developed a severe stammer after being bitten by a dog when she was aged five was awarded €425,952 damages in the High Court yesterday. She received scars to the cheek and lower lip in the attack.

Holding photographs of relatives held in Israeli jails, several thousand people gathered outside the Red Cross office in Gaza City today to call for the release of Palestinian prisoners.

The CIA interrogated and roughed up Iraqi prisoners in a “romper room” where a handcuffed and hooded terror suspect was kicked, slapped and punched shortly before he died at the Abu Ghraib prison, a Navy Seal claimed.

A suicide bomber rammed an ambulance packed with explosives into security barriers outside the Iraqi offices of the international Red Cross today, killing about 10 people, an American general said.

Nearly a million people were without electricity on America’s east coast tonight as hurricane Isabel slammed ashore.

Four young refugees were today jailed for four months for breaking down security barriers at the Channel Tunnel, allowing hundreds of illegal immigrants to try to cross to Britain by foot.

Clashes have broken out between Afghan and Kurdish immigrants living at a Red Cross refugee centre near Calais.