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AUSTRALIAN bonds are generating the strongest demand in three years on speculation the central bank will win room to hold record-low interest rates as treasurer Joe Hockey’s first budget focuses on deficit reduction.

U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S- *slam*

Pre-tax profits at the publishing group owned by former RTÉ Dragons’ Den judge and current Newstalk presenter Norah Casey decreased by 76% to €78,121 in 2011.

Nenagh mart manager Michael Harty summed up Tuesday’s sale with the phrase, “The confidence is just tremendous.”

WAVING American flags, thousands flooded to the White House in spontaneous celebrations after the death of Osama bin Laden.

Osama bin Laden has been killed in a helicopter raid on a mansion in Pakistan.

GRAEME McDOWELL expresses complete and unabashed fondness for Rory McIlroy, but you suspect there are times when he wishes his young friend would consider his public utterances a little more carefully.

THE US pastor who planned to burn copies of the Koran on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on New York last night backed down claiming he had got guarantees over a planned mosque in the city.

Troubled R&B star R Kelly made an unexpected appearance in a Chicago, Illinois, court yesterday to ask for permission to travel again.

Although Nicole Kidman had a tough time filming Dogville for the demanding Danish director Lars Von Trier, she has committed to star in the next two films of his American-set trilogy U, S and A, reports the New York Post.

It is being reported an FBI agent raised suspicions about Middle Eastern nationals taking flying lessons at U-S aviation schools two months before September 11.

The EU, despite a court setback, is not giving up its fight against tobacco giants it claims sponsored cigarette smuggling in Europe.