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It seems you just can't stop crazy German filmmaker Werner Herzog, who is already back with his latest project.

Werner Herzog is just a little bit great. The self taught filmmaker has been behind dozens of features in a career spanning more than 50 years, including Fitzcaraldo, Rescue Dawn and Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans.

Benjamin Netanyahu has stepped up his criticism of the US-led nuclear deal with Iran. 

If Israel’s prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu forms a new hard-right government, it will be a triumph for the politics of fear over socio-economics. 

Israel’s opposition leader has conceded defeat in the country’s election.

Clearer path to coalition for PM as two main parties lead the way

Israelis are voting in elections following a campaign focused on economic issues such as the high cost of living, rather than fears of a nuclear Iran or the Israeli-Arab conflict.

It appears from his recent letter to your newspaper that Charlie Murphy’s feelings have been hurt by challenges to his arguments about a resurgent anti-Semitism. 

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s car wheeled out of the court parking lot in the dead of night after he was charged in a corruption probe.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was detained and reportedly questioned by financial investigators in a corruption probe that could cloud his chances of a political comeback.

PM's 'cry of joy' over Bowie plea

The US premiere of ‘Jack Reacher’, an explosive action thriller based on the book ‘One Shot’ by Lee Child, was postponed in the wake of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The decision was understandable.

Robert Pattinson is to follow in the footsteps of great Irish actor Peter O’Toole, by playing Lawrence Of Arabia.

No tickets for London’s big event? Get into the Olympic spirit on a tour with a sporting twist, says Sally Howard

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The Artist’s Oscar success is also good news for The Cork French Film Festival. Its line-up boasts some real gems, Carl Dixon reports

WERNER Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams celebrates a series of wildlife paintings.

The interesting thing about Herzog’s fascinating documentary about the Chauvet Caves in Southern France which contain around 400 of the world’s oldest rock paintings depicting humans is that 3D doesn’t add anything to what we are seeing.

Israel today dropped plans to prosecute dozens of pro-Palestinian activists involved in the Gaza blockade incident, opting instead to deport them all immediately.

A documentary set in the remote McMurdo Station base in the Antarctic that highlights the collection of characters who choose to live and work in the white wilderness … and each one of Herzog’s encounters manages to bring us something you don’t find in the neighbourhood streets.

Germany midfielder Michael Ballack wants to knock Luiz Felipe Scolari out of Euro 2008 after setting up a quarter-final against Portugal with a stunning winner in Vienna.

Christian’s Bale mesmerising performance in Werner Herzog’s 'Rescue Dawn' (Pathé, €24.99) at times makes for difficult viewing.

Newly-married French president Nicolas Sarkozy has filed a legal complaint over a media report saying he promised to call off his engagement if his ex-wife came back to him.

France’s newly married president, Nicolas Sarkozy, filed a legal complaint today over a media report saying he promised to call off his engagement if his ex-wife came back to him, his lawyer said.

NIALL GINTY (Letters, November 19) and Eoghan Harris (Sunday Independent, November 11) both commented on my letter to you (November 9).

Rescue Dawn

DR Pat Muldowney’s letter (October 29) on RTÉ’s Hidden History programme (October 23) was valuable at the time and has become of even greater importance subsequently.

SCIENTISTS have found how to switch hunger on and off using a molecule that targets the brain — a discovery which could stop weight loss in terminally ill patients or produce weight loss in the morbidly obese.

Police in France are holding two shopkeepers and another person accused of a €32.5m Euro Millions lottery scam.

Philip Morris USA, the United States’ largest cigarette company, today said it plans to test a smokeless, spitless tobacco product this summer in the Indianapolis market.

A former air traffic controller with a British firm will face possible charges in Colorado after being suspected of planting homemade bombs outside five homes.

German director Werner Herzog has hailed Christian Bale one of the greatest actors of his time.

A US television network has ordered a pilot based on the successful Blade movies starring Wesley Snipes as the half-human, half-vampire hunter of the undead.

Nobel laureate Saul Bellow, a master of comic melancholy who in Herzog, Humboldt’s Gift and other novels both championed and mourned the soul’s fate in the modern world, has died at 89.