Four killed in Bath road collision
Four people died and at several others were injured - including one person listed as being in a critical condition - after a tipper truck collided with vehicles and pedestrians in the UK.
Police are investigating the incident which happened in Lansdown Lane in Upper Weston in Bath, Somerset, just after 4pm today.
A tipper truck carrying aggregate collided with a number of vehicles and two pedestrians as it travelled down the hill.
Early witness accounts suggest the driver was trying to avert an accident, an Avon and Somerset Police spokesman said.
Redmayne and Moore pick up Bafta awards
Eddie Redmayne and Julianne Moore picked up the best actor and actress awards at the Bafta awards for their roles in The Theory of Everything.
Redmayne stars as Professor Steven Hawking in the movie which shows the effects of serious illness.
'Boyhood' and 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' also won major plaudits, while the award for British short film went to 'Boogaloo and Graham', about two boys growing up in 1970s Belfast.
Translink chief resigning to become a preacher
The chief executive of Translink, one of the largest companies in Northern Ireland, is resigning from his post to devote his life to preaching the gospel.
David Strahan only took up the €200,000 per annum post at the bus and train company in October 2014.
Translink employs 4,000 people across Northern Ireland.
Sam Smith scoops four awards at Grammy ceremony
British soul singer Sam Smith was the big winner at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.
The former bartender won Song of the Year and Record of the Year for 'Stay With Me', a ballad about a one-night stand.
He also won Best New Artist and Best Pop Vocal Album for 'In the Lonely Hour'.
Pharrell Williams, Beyonce and Beck were also among the big winners on the night.
Queen's to help build €300m solar telescope
Queen's University Belfast is to play a leading role in building the world's biggest solar telescope.
It will be joined by Armagh Observatory as part of a consortium of eight universities and businesses to build the cameras for the €300m super-telescope, which will be situated on a mountain in Maui, Hawaii.
The Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope (DKist) will be launched in 2019 and is being constructed by the US National Solar Observatory.
Its four-metre diameter main mirror will allow the telescope to pick up unprecedented detail on the surface of the sun.
Half of employers to give pay rises in 2015 - research
Half of Irish employers who took part in Peninsula Ireland research plan on giving their workers a pay-rise this year.
2,228 businesses across a wide range of industries were questioned, with 53% of these indicating employees will receive an increase in their pay.
71% of employers said they intend to recruit in 2015.
Bord na Móna workers vote for industrial action
One of the country's peat-burning power stations could be shut down for a day next month after workers at Bord na Móna voted in favour of industrial action.
Staff at the semi-state company's finance departments have voted by four to one for industrial action.
This is due to what they say is a company refusal to suspend a process of eliminating existing jobs and replacing them with ones on lesser pay terms and conditions of employment.
The ballot involved workers in the Bord na Móna offices in Newbridge in Co Kildare, Lough Boora and Edenderry Power Station in Co Offaly.
If finance staff mount a picket at the Edenderry power station, it is considered unlikely that production staff will stay on duty on any day of industrial action.
Former Thai PM banned from overseas travel
Yingluck Shinawatra, the former prime minister of Thailand, has been banned from travelling abroad ahead of corruption charges which are to be laid later this month.
Ms Shinawatra, who was ousted by a court ruling shortly before the Thai military seized power last May, has been banned from politics for five years.
Local media reports say Ms Shinawatra had planned to travel to Hong Kong, China and Britain this week.
Chinese court sentences second man to death for same murder
A Chinese court has sentenced a convicted serial killer to death for murder, 19 years after a teenager was executed for the crime.
Zhao Zhihong, 42, was convicted of murder, rape and robbery by the Hohhot Intermediate People's Court in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.
Zhao was arrested in 2005 and confessed to a string of rape and murder cases, including the 1996 rape and choking to death of a woman in the toilet of a Hohhot textile factory.
An 18-year-old named Hugjiltu had already been tried, convicted, sentenced and executed for the crime. His family continued to protest his innocence and he was exonerated in December.
