By the time United States authorities took country singer Mindy McCready’s five-year-old son from her and into custody last night, one thing had already become apparent: McCready’s life has come to resemble a bad country song.

An Irish-born Doctor wanted in the United State for fleeing the State of Florida in 2001 before his trial on child sex offences started has been remanded on continuing bail by the High Court.

US VICE-PRESIDENT Dick Cheney and vice-presidential candidate John Edwards slugged it out over jobs, judgment and Iraq in a hard-hitting debate that set the stage for US President George W Bush’s speech yesterday denouncing his Democratic rival’s record on national security.

The amount of US bombs moved to the Gulf for the onslaught on Iraq is equivalent to the weight of four Eiffel Towers, military sources said today.

A photograph of one of the suspected hijackers in the US terrorist attacks has been unearthed in Florida.