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15:29 Around 650,000 people thronged the streets of Ireland's capital city today for one of the world's biggest and most colourful St Patrick's Day parades. The wet weather that plagued earlier celebrations over the weekend gave way to glorious spring sunshine for the spectacular climax of the five-day festival in Dublin. Around 3,000 performers took part.
Thousands attend sunny St Patrick's Day parades
UN, Nato troops battle Serbs in Kosovo
15:56 Nato troops came under fire during Serb riots in the northern Kosovo flashpoint of Mitrovica this morning, in the worst violence in the territory since the Albanian majority declared independence last month.Iseq down 4.6% as global markets plunge
17:26 US stocks fell today after JPMorgan Chase bought Bear Stearns at a fire sale price and the Federal Reserve provided emergency cash to Wall Street as the global credit crisis worsened.
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