Toolmaker lost tips of fingers

Bearnardo Escalona (58), a native of the Philippines with an address at Coldcut Park, Clondalkin, Dublin, sued Nypro Limited of Corke Abbey, Bray, Co Wicklow, where it operates a plastics manufacturing business.

In his action, it was claimed that while working at the premises on July 15, 2008, an 800kg mould fell on to his right hand as it was being unhooked from a crane.

'Judge Judy' in hospital

TV's Judge Judy Sheindlin was rushed to hospital in Los Angeles for an undisclosed ailment while recording her show.

A spokesman for the 68-year-old judge said she was "feeling much better" after being taken from her show's recording by ambulance to Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre yesterday.

The judge presides over small-claims cases on her show Judge Judy.

Bus crash kills nine in Vietnam

Vietnamese police said a train has crashed into a mini bus just outside the capital, killing nine people.

Police in Hanoi's suburban district of Thuong Tin said seven people died at the scene and two others died in a hospital following yesterday's accident.

Police said today that the bus driver was being detained for questioning.

The bus was carrying 21 people returning from a wedding.

Thanh Nien newspaper today reported a survivor as saying the driver was on his cellphone when the accident occurred.

Teen attack over cigarette

A TEENAGE girl, who attacked another girl during a row about a cigarette, has been spared a criminal conviction.

The 16-year-old girl had pleaded guilty last month at the Children's Court to assaulting a girl from her school, in west Dublin, on a date in May last year.

The court had heard that a friend of the defendant had attacked a girl who had refused to give her a cigarette.

The accused "jumped on another girl who tried to intervene," the court was told.