The federal judge who oversaw Roger Stone's trial and sentenced him last week to 40 months in prison dismissed as a baseless smear his demand that she be taken off the case.
IRISH and world stocks plunged yesterday as parts of northern Italy faced lockdown in response to the spreading coronavirus.
The Iranian government has insisted it is not covering up the true scale of the coronavirus outbreak in the country after an MP claimed the death toll from the disease was five times higher than official figures.
The coronavirus outbreak threatens to wreak economic havoc with the travel and tourist industry - forcing the cancellation of major sporting and cultural events in Ireland.
Thirty people - many of them children - were injured when a man drove his car into a carnival parade in Germany yesterday.
Seaweed fossils that are one billion years old are believed to be the oldest green algae discovered.
Julian Assange is wanted for crimes that put at risk the lives of people in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan who had helped the West, said a lawyer acting for the US in its bid to extradite the 48-year-old.
