Friends of a man apparently shot dead by his eight-year-old son denied today that the boy had been abused by his father.

An eight-year-boy is accused of fatally shooting his father and another man in eastern Arizona.

Ennis Hospital, which has been dogged by the cancer misdiagnoses controversy of late, has come in second last in an online league of hospitals.

A FRENCH-based company headed by Irish personnel will be offering wine-tasting tours in the Languedoc Roussillon region of France this summer.

World-famous American adventurer Steve Fossett is hoping to land his vintage aircraft on a golf course in Ireland today in a recreation of an historic transatlantic flight.

Renee Zellweger has stunned Hollywood by marrying her country sweetheart Kenny Chesney.