This week’s round-up includes: a German expressing his love of Northern Ireland’s finest, Richie McCaw’s somersault turnover and the most inappropriate goal celebration of the season.
A warning issued by the World Anti-Doping Agency to participants in the Pan American Games could strengthen the cyclist’s case ahead of his appearance at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Five people suspected of being members of the notorious Zetas drug cartel in Mexico have been arrested over an arson attack on a casino killed 52 people earlier this week.
Gunmen who set fire to the Casino Royale in Monterrey shouted at people to leave, but many who tried to hide from the attackers were killed in the flames.
The Mexican government has issued a tropical storm watch for the country’s southwestern coast over the strengthening hurricane – the fourth to be named this season.
The Obama administration wanted time to consider the impact this execution could have on other foreign citizens living in the US – and US citizens abroad.
Alma Lopez, the artist whose work Our Lady prompted protests at University College Cork last week, has called on Irish people to protect their right to freedom of speech and called the blasphemy laws ‘ridiculous’.
Lynsey O’Brien, the Dublin schoolgirl who fell from the balcony of a cruise ship five years ago, would have turned 21 today. Her family say they are fighting for an answer for her death.
Two children and two women were among the dead who were mostly farm workers according to reports. One person survived by pretending he was dead. The massacre has been linked to drug cartels.
THIS SUMMER IT emerged that a beach resort in Spain has banned people from peeing in the sea and that those found to have done the deed now face a €750 fine.
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