CHINA: People who eat rare animals could be jailed for 10 years or more under a new interpretation of the criminal law, state media reported, as the government seeks to close a legal loophole and better protect the natural environment.

A bank robbery suspect trying to elude police searching for him in an apartment building leaped into a rubbish chute and survived a 200ft fall into the basement.

Veteran singer/actor Robert Goulet has died at the age of 73.

THE High Court has reserved judgment on proceedings brought by a US national, who is based in Dublin, after gardaí directed Bank of Ireland to “freeze” $100,000 (€77,000) in an account here.

Mark Warner’s decision to bow out of the early US presidential race leaves a field still crowded with Democrats competing to be the most attractive alternative to front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

SINN FÉIN’S political isolation reached a low point last night as Washington embraced the family of murder victim Robert McCartney.

A court in the US has found trade secrets were stolen from Norbrook Laboratories, a Northern Ireland pharmaceutical group by a US competitor.

United Airlines is to axe 1,250 jobs and close three reservation centres as part of cost-cutting efforts aimed at saving the troubled US carrier about $100m (€102.7m) a year.

A Thai court today ordered an accused child pornographer on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list to be extradited to the US.