UPDATE:Josef Fritzl - transferred yesterday from police custody in Amstetten ...

UPDATE: TUESDAYA 73-year-old Austrian man who has admitted locking up his daughter for 24 years and fathering her seven children is due to appear before a magistrates court later today.Josef Fritzl was transferred yesterday from police custody in Amstetten to a court in...

Man jailed over cancer insurance fraud

"A consultant surgeon has been sentenced to four years in prison for defrauding two insurance companies through a bogus breast cancer claim. Emad Massoud, 52, from Ratoath in Co Meath, used a cancerous tissue sample from his mother-in-law to claim that his wife had...

Chilli compound fires painkiller

"A chemical from chilli peppers may be able to kill pain without affecting touch or movement. This might in theory mean a woman in labour could have an epidural without losing the ability to move her legs, or the sensation of her baby being born. Conventional local...