Former England captain Alan Shearer fears he may be at risk of suffering from dementia due to heading footballs during his playing days.

Say what you like about Enda Kenny but he never found himself embroiled in a row with LCD Soundsystem, writes Colm O’Regan. 

UK Chancellor Philip Hammond has sent a thinly-veiled warning to Boris Johnson amid speculation that the Foreign Secretary is trying to destabilise Theresa May, declaring "nobody is unsackable".

University of Limerick lecturer and former Cambodia Daily journalist, Fergal Quinn, reflects on a worrying and largely unreported attack on freedom of expression in Cambodia and what lessons we in the west shoud take from what is happening.

When a former British Vogue editor-in-chief posted a bedroom selfie little did she realise it would be seen as an empowering move, writes Margaret Jennings

Slapstick comedy and tumbling sets provided the belly laughs in The Play that Goes Wrong, writes Ed Power.

Angelina Jolie has signed up Hollywood’s most fearsome divorce lawyer, writes Suzanne Harrington

A bold strategy.

A Labour MP has claimed the party “cannot be a safe space” for British Jews after Jeremy Corbyn failed to intervene when she was verbally abused by one of his grassroots supporters at a press conference.

A woman believed to have given birth in the bathroom of her boyfriend’s apartment before tossing her newborn daughter to her death from a seventh-storey window was being held without bail on a murder charge, police and prosecutors said.

Sometimes, I switch on A League of Their Own and leave it on for a few short moments.

A judge has branded a mother who went on the run with her three-year-old son after becoming embroiled in a bitter custody battle with the boy’s father “utterly irresponsible”.

A snap from Canadian man, Christian LeBlanc, of a magnificent elephant has gone viral after he loaded it onto his Instagram account.

An Asiatic black bear, who was rescued from a farm in southeast Asia, has taken to walking like a human after its ordeal.

She’ll always be daddy’s girl.

QPR forward Adel Taarabt has hit back at manager Harry Redknapp over claims that he is overweight and unfit to play.

A victim of a male NHS nurse dubbed “the Canterbury Cannibal” has spoken of the moment he tried to suffocate her with a cloth soaked in dry-cleaning fluid.

Louis van Gaal insists he has no regrets over taking the manager’s job at Manchester United despite the building pressure after a poor start to the season.

Hull have turned to Palermo forward Abel Hernandez to plug the gap left by Shane Long’s move to Southampton.

Former England captain Rio Ferdinand would keep Luis Suarez at Liverpool if he were Reds boss Brendan Rodgers.

Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers has hailed Luis Suarez as ’magical’ after the striker was awarded the Professional Footballers’ Association’s Player of the Year award on Sunday night.

Eat, shave and drive for busy motorists

New York City police say five people, including a toddler, are dead after a stabbing at a Brooklyn residence.

A top CSKA Moscow official believes his club are victims of a British smear campaign against Russian football following widespread calls for punishment over Yaya Toure’s accusations of racist abuse.

England manager Roy Hodgson has expressed his frustration and anger that his side’s achievement in reaching the World Cup earlier this week has been overshadowed by the details of a joke he told the dressing room in the qualifier against Poland.

Clint Eastwood and his wife, Dina Ruiz, are going their separate ways.

A victim of “predator” Stuart Hall has spoken of how the TV star tricked her into trusting him before he sexually abused her.

Entertainer Rolf Harris has turned to his passion for art to deal with the trauma of being accused of sex abuse, his wife revealed.

Craig Bellamy has expressed regret over his departure from Manchester City two years ago, admitting he “messed up” his time with the Barclays Premier League champions.

Kanye West's new single will be called 'I Am A God'.

A spillage of thousands of LEGO bricks forced officers in the US state of West Virginia to shut down a highway in Harrison County, local station WDTV reported.

Alexandra Burke has reportedly turned down the lead role in 'The X Factor' musical.

Jimmy Savile’s former personal assistant has said the disgraced TV star “thought he was untouchable”.

A 22-year-old man was arrested today in connection with racist twitter messages aimed at West Ham striker Carlton Cole, police said.

Will.i.am turned down his first welfare cheque because he wanted to find another way to live.

A leaked story about the reopened investigation into the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence had a “negative” effect on the probe, the officer who led it said today.

Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish has suggested the Football Association could charge his Arsenal counterpart Arsene Wenger for accusing Luis Suarez of diving.

The former wife of Paul McCartney never authorised former News of the World editor Piers Morgan, or anybody else, to listen to her voicemails, she told the inquiry into British press standards today.

The editors of the Daily Mirror and the Sunday Mirror have conceded that phone-hacking might have occurred at their newspapers.

Christine Bleakley and Adrian Chiles have reportedly been axed from ITV 1 show 'Daybreak'.

Ashley and Cheryl should consider the pitfalls before remarrying each other, says Suzanne Harrington.

THEY say you shouldn’t write anything online you wouldn’t like to see on the front page of the New York Times the next morning.

The publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday today said it had slashed its UK regional newspaper workforce by another 8% as revenues and circulation continued to fall.

'Little Britain' star Matt Lucas has obtained substantial undisclosed damages and an apology over a “grossly intrusive” Daily Mail article in the wake of his ex-partner’s death.

The Star Sunday newspaper deliberately repeated false and defamatory statements about a self-confessed and convicted child porn user, a judge said yesterday.

Stacey Solomon has compared taking part in 'I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!' to dying her hair.

The British former commander of the UN peacekeeping force in Bosnia today told Radovan Karadzic’s war crimes trial how the Serb brought terror and suffering to Muslim enclaves.

Gareth Barry has told his former Aston Villa team-mate James Milner he should get his future sorted out as quickly as possible.