This week I read a superb book called No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us, by Rachel Louise Snyder. The book is divided into three sections.

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Goldman Sachs has reported a higher second-quarter profit, as it benefited from a sharp decline in expenses and more activity in some parts of the fixed-income markets, but most of its businesses came under pressure.

IN response to a reader query, gravy in its many forms is our topic for today’s survey.

Now that Star Wars is back in cinemas, it may be time for another parody. Comedy legend Mel Brooks has confirmed that a sequel to 1987's Spaceballs is in development.

The ‘Martian Panic’ was a myth for which mainstream media was largely responsible, writes Terry Prone

YOU’VE got a 21st century marriage. You share household chores and childcare. You accommodate each other’s careers.

Israel’s Cabinet has approved a deal to allow more EU flights, hours after the country’s airlines went on strike out of concerns that the agreement would cost them jobs and possibly even ruin their companies.

At the end of last year this column took up the cudgels again in the GAA statistics battle, invoking Jorge Luis Borges in an effort to stimulate the debate.

LINDSAY LOHAN rejected a judge’s offer to end a felony grand theft case early and her attorney said it is because the actress has a strong defence and is confident she can win an acquittal.

Lindsay Lohan has rejected a judge's offer to end a felony grand theft case early and her lawyer said it is because the actress has a strong defence and is confident she can win an acquittal.

Lindsay Lohan’s friends fear she may not “survive” if she goes back to jail.

A JUDGE has told Lindsay Lohan that if she accepts a plea deal on charges of stealing a necklace, she will go to jail.

A judge has told Lindsay Lohan he will send her to jail if she accepts a plea deal from prosecutors to avoid trial for allegedly stealing a $2,500 necklace from an upmarket jewellery store.

Actress Lindsay Lohan pleaded not guilty to felony grand theft of a US$2,500 (€1,827) necklace - the most serious charge yet filed against the troubled starlet who has wrestled with drug and alcohol abuse for years.

STAFF at Arnotts are hoping to be told this week what plans Anglo Irish Bank and Ulster Bank have for the store’s future, after Brussels gave the green light for the lenders to take over the debt-ridden retailer.

Former US President Bill Clinton left hospital today after undergoing a heart operation, a close friend said.

Former President Bill Clinton, who had quadruple bypass surgery more than five years ago, was taken to hospital to have a clogged heart artery opened after suffering discomfort in his chest.

Lindsay Lohan nearly missed out on the opportunity to star in her new movie 'Labour Pains' - because insurance companies refused to cover her.

USING only its brainpower, a monkey can direct a robotic arm to pluck a marshmallow from a skewer and stuff it into its mouth, researchers have said.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes were given a private visit to a New York toy store recently, so they could take daughter Suri on a special shopping spree.

Wall Street closed moderately lower today after worries about the impact of high oil prices on the economy triggered a late-day drop, erasing an earlier moderate advance.

Welsh pop star Charlotte Church is reportedly being wooed by OC creator Josh Schwartz, who wants her to make a cameo appearance on the hit series.

A motorist who was dragged from his car in Milwaukee, US, and severely beaten, apparently by a mob of young people, was well enough to talk to officers, and several other people also were questioned, police said Wednesday.

OJ Simpson’s 19-year-old daughter was arrested after she refused to stop yelling at officers who had been summoned because of a fight outside a basketball game involving her old prep school, Florida police said.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators were flooding the centre of the Ukrainian capital Kiev today in protest at the alleged fraud in electing a pro-Moscow president.

Former US president Bill Clinton is recovering today from a quadruple heart bypass operation to relieve severely clogged arteries that doctors said had put him in danger of an imminent major heart attack.

Commanders plan to keep US troops at their current levels in Iraq – about 135,000 – until the end of 2005, defence department officials have said.

The latest film with an Irish setting is about to hit our screens.

The latest film with an Irish setting is about to hit our screens.

A grand jury has indicted a Virginia teenager on charges of murder and solicitation to murder over the killing of her DNA scientist father who was stabbed to death with a sword.

Wimbledon, intended order of play for Monday, June 25 prefix number denotes seeding: