A 27-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a bomb attack in Lurgan last month.

Sales of Jameson whiskey rose 12 per cent in the year ending June 30th as spirits group Pernod Ricard announced a 4 per cent rise in organic recurring operating profit.

US President Barack Obama has called on Israeli and Palestinian leaders not to let the chance of a permanent peace deal 'slip away'.

Oil prices dipped today as investors turned their attention to upcoming US employment reports, following gains of almost 3 per cent a day earlier after positive manufacturing data lifted spirits across markets.

Bankruptcies filings by US consumers fell 8 per cent in August but still remained on track to top 1.6 million filings in 2010, according to a report by the American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI).

A man who took three people hostage in the headquarters of the Discovery Channel near Washington has been shot dead by US police.

A man has been killed and three others injured in a road collision in Co Roscommon.

US President Barack Obama vowed today that a deadly Hamas attack in the West Bank "is not going to stop us" in the quest for Israeli-Palestinian peace as he opened a Washington summit to relaunch face-to-face negotiations.

The Government has signalled that it is moving towards a position whereby Anglo Irish Bank is wound-up completely rather than retained in some form.

TENNIS/US Open men’s round-up:Andy Murray enjoyed a trouble-free start to his title bid today as he cruised to a 6-3 6-2 6-2 win over unheralded Slovakian Lukas Lacko.

A gunman is holding a number of hostages inside the Discovery Channel building in suburban Washington, police confirmed tonight.

Positive economic data coming out of Asia and the US pushed the ISEQ up today, and it advanced by 40.61 points, or 1.5 per cent, to climb to 2,744.47.

An altered version of the cancer drug Gleevec could form the basis of a new class of drugs that block the development of brain-damaging plaques in Alzheimer's disease, US researchers said today.

Three bombs exploded at a Shia procession in the Pakistani city of Lahore today, killing at least 20 people and wounding over 170, piling pressure on a government already overwhelmed by floods.

US vice president Joe Biden, in Iraq to mark the end of US combat operations, said today he believed Iraqis were close to forming a new government.

Ireland 3 USA 40:Ireland will play Scotland on Sunday in the seventh-place play-off at the World Cup after they were comprehensively outplayed by the Americans in this afternoon’s fifth-place semi-final at Guildford Sports Park in Surrey.

CYCLING/Vuelta a Espana:Ireland’s Nicolas Roche held on to 11th spot after the 198.8-kilometres fifth stage from Guadix to Lorca as he came home in the bunch sprint today.

British foreign secretary William Hague’s special adviser has resigned as a result of pressures placed on his family by “untrue and malicious allegations”.

Compulsory training is to be introduced for learner drivers and a two-year restricted period is to apply after they pass their test under a series of reforms announced by the Road Safety Authority (RSA).

TENNIS/US Open round-up:Women’s number 10 seed Victoria Azarenka collapsed on court in the searing heat at the at Flushing Meadows in New York today during her second-round match against Gisela Dulko.