As Whitney Houston’s musical peers prepared to pay tribute to her memory at last night’s Grammy Awards her teenage daughter had to be hospitalised for the second time since her mother’s death.
The Arab League will call on the UN Security Council to pass a resolution creating a joint peacekeeping force for Syria.
Silent film The Artist made a big noise at the Bafta film awards last night winning seven awards including Best Film, Leading Actor and Best Director.
Whitney Houston rose from a gospel church choir in New Jersey to become one of the best-selling and most-admired female singers of all time.
Temperature readings at one of the Fukushima nuclear reactors have risen above Japan’s stringent new safety standard but there was no immediate danger, its operator said.
Salvage workers yesterday began pumping fuel from the shipwrecked cruise liner Costa Concordia, a day ahead of schedule, officials said.
Rupert Murdoch will fly to London this week to meet journalists at The Sun after five senior staff at his flagship British tabloid were arrested over bribery allegations, sources said yesterday.
Whitney Houston’s last days were spent surrounded by family, catching up with old friends and doing a bit of what she was best known for — singing.
Venezuelans yesterday voted in the country’s first-ever opposition presidential primary, choosing a single challenger they hope will have what it takes to defeat President Hugo Chavez after 13 years in office.
During a 30-year career in which she established herself as one of the most-admired and influential singers of her time, Houston won six Grammys, 30 Billboard awards and 22 American Music Awards.
Global airlines yesterday called for a UN-brokered deal to prevent a row over aviation emissions between China and the EU spilling into a trade war.
Just over half of Ireland’s coterie of 12 MEPs — Nessa, Proinsias, Paul, Phil, Sean, Jim and Marian — have signed the pledge to support gay rights which is doing the rounds in the European Parliament.
Slain al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden urged his children to live peacefully in the West and get a university education, his brother-in- law said in an interview published yesterday.
Tests involving chickens have raised questions about the impact on health from engineered nano- particles, the ultra-fine grains commonly used in drugs and processed foods.
A day after Mitt Romney regained some momentum in the Republican presidential contest, his rival Rick Santorum went on the attack, calling the front-runner “desperate” while promising to compete aggressively to win the state where Romney grew up.
Iranian authorities will this week crack down on any public protest against the year-long house arrest of opposition leaders Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi, an official said yesterday.
An 18-year-old Tibetan nun set herself on fire in western China in the latest such protest against Beijing’s handling of the vast ethnic Tibetan regions it rules, an overseas activist group said yesterday.
While Michael Noonan, the finance minister, was getting plaudits from EU peers in the ungainly pink granite building off Schuman, down the road the true cost of Ireland’s austerity measures was being spelled out to MEPs by Michael McCabe of Independent Living.
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