Former paper shop could be headline buy, writes Tommy Barker.

Joseph Stalin was violent and ruthless from an early age, and his criminality, his talents as an organiser and a manipulator, and his over-weening ambition, facilitated his later rise to power, says Geoffrey Roberts. 

Negotiating the future of a near priceless work of art might leave some people walking on eggshells but the expert who found a home for a long-lost Fabergé masterpiece coolly conducted business in a potato field in Kerry.

IT’S the end of another long day on set and Jon Hamm sounds a little croaky. But while the hours might be proving arduous for the actor, his schedule’s nothing compared to that of his co-star Daniel Radcliffe.

THERE’S a prison in the Peter and Paul Fortress in St Petersburg.

A big screen version of Blackadder is on the verge of being filmed, 17 years after the last episode of the cult British TV comedy aired.

LUCIA de Jesus dos Santos, the last of three children who claimed to see the Virgin Mary at Fatima and who revealed a vision the Catholic Church said foretold the attempt to kill Pope John Paul II, died on Sunday, the Church said.

Laid low by injuries and at 20- years- old still no nearer to claiming that elusive first WTA Tour title, it may be that Anna Kournikova’s legacy to the game which has made her a multi-millionaire lies in the next generation of Russian stars.