At least three Irish exchange students were unharmed during yesterday's gun rampage on a university campus in the US state of Virginia.

A WOMAN has been awarded over €328,000 in damages after she sued an internet matchmaking agency that introduced her to a man who became her abusive husband.

BAE Systems was today preparing to play a more central role in the war on terror after acquiring a leading IT supplier to the Pentagon.

PHOTOGRAPHS of Iraqi prisoners, naked except for hoods covering their heads, stacked in a human pyramid, have been shown on prime time US TV.