Over the past three weeks over four hundred people have died in Haiti due to a cholera outbreak. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that the particular strain of cholera that is implicated in the outbreak matches certain strains found in South Asia. Leading infectious disease experts in the field say [...]

Pop star Lily Allen was today in hospital battling blood poisoning just days after suffering her second miscarriage, her spokesman confirmed. The 25-year-old singer was said to be responding well to treatment for septicaemia and thanked fans for their messages of support. Allen was around six months pregnant when she lost her baby earlier this [...]

Presenter Jonathan Ross is to return to TV as host of a Channel 4 celebration of the UK’s favourite toys, it was announced today. The 49-year-old – whose BBC contract ran out in the summer – will host the station’s ’100 Greatest Toys’ countdown this Christmas. Ross is spending the best part of a year [...]

Bohemians 3 Dundalk 1 Late goals from Aaron Greene and Jason Byrne gave Bohemians a last day win, but it wasn’t enough as Shamrock Rovers got the point they needed in Bray to lift the league title. Bohs started well and were a goal up on 12 minutes when Paddy Madden finished superbly from the [...]

Celine Dion thinks looking after twins will be “overwhelming”. The ‘My Heart Will Go On’ singer- who already has a nine-year-old son Rene-Charles with her husband Rene Angelil – gave birth to twin boys on Saturday and admitted recently she was expecting her life to become chaotic. Speaking in an interview given before she gave [...]

The US government today apologised to Guatemala for a study 60 years ago in which American scientists deliberately infected prisoners there with syphilis. The 1946 experiment was apparently conducted to test the effectiveness of penicillin, which was relatively new then, in treating sexually transmitted diseases. It was unearthed by a medical historian at Washington’s Wellesley [...]

Shamrock Rovers 6 Galway United 0 Galway United felt the full backlash from Shamrock Rovers as the cup kings waltzed into the last four with this facile victory at Tallaght Stadium tonight. Reeling from their 5-1 drubbing at Dundalk in the league on Monday, Rovers were eager to respond and they took just 12 minutes [...]

A doctor has been shot at Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore and a suspect is holed up inside, police said. A police department spokesman says the hospital is being evacuated. He said he did not know the doctor’s condition. A spokesman said officers were setting up a tactical operation to deal with a gunman who [...]