BUDDING entrepreneurs are being inspired by the successful business people of the past through a new website which celebrates innovation in the south-east region.

A powerful earthquake ripped through central Italy today killing more than 90 people as they slept.

Tropical Storm Hanna knocked out power to the southern Bahamas and authorities from Nassau to South Carolina warned residents to prepare for evacuation as it moved north, growing into a hurricane.

Aer Arann has today launched their new Amsterdam route from Galway and Waterford airports today.

At least 25 people were killed today in mudslides triggered by a heavy monsoon downpour in a hilly south-eastern Bangladesh port city, rescue officials said.

Two houses were destroyed by wildfires in drought-stricken south-east Australia today on the region's hottest December day in 53 years.

The outer bands of rain from Hurricane Rita began falling in New Orleans today, and forecasts of between 8 and 13 centimetres of rainfall in the coming days raised fears the patched levee system could fail and flood the city all over again.

The Australian owner of two historic British regional banks, Yorkshire and Clydesdale, has announced plans to close 100 branches in the UK.

Nazi Germany tested a crude nuclear device, killing hundreds of people in a massive explosion south of Berlin in the dying days of the Second World War, a researcher claims in a new book.

An aid group in Afghanistan said it was considering pulling out of part of the country after Taliban militants attacked its compound in a southern town yesterday, killing three people and engaging authorities in a gun battle.

THE besieged Shi’ite city of Fallujah was rocked again by a series of explosions and gunfire yesterday — only hours after a heavy battle in which US warplanes and artillery pounded insurgents holed up in a slum.

Massive interest from the clubman circuit has guaranteed a full entry list for this Sunday’s Crosbie Cedars Hotel Wexford Single Stage Rally - the second Slaneyside event of the year.