The engineer of an Amtrak passenger train applied the emergency brakes five seconds before it struck a digger sitting on the same track, killing the operator and a track supervisor, US officials said.

Three scientists have won the 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a chemical method allowing researchers to make potential cancer drugs and other medicines as well as slimmed-down computer screens.

DUBLIN teenager Clara Peters made history this week when she became the first Irish competitor to take to the ice at an elite international figure skating competition.

THE hunt for the Washington area sniper has become perhaps the ultimate TV reality show.