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"Today is Valentine’s Day. This is a special day where you should spend quality time with your loved one"

As part of the valentines campaign, the charity will also be offering a matchmaking service to those looking to make a furry friend for life.

A 'Love Actually' live concert with a full orchestra is coming to Dublin.

Worshippers clutching AR-15 rifles have drunk holy wine and exchanged wedding vows in a commitment ceremony at a Pennsylvania-based church.

Donald Trump has claimed he would have rushed in to aid students and teachers during the deadly mass shooting at a Florida high school.

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Instagram Stories has added geostickers, a new feature identical in format and name to Snapchat's geostickers feature.

A model, who admitted harassing celebrity chef Dylan McGrath, has been spared a jail sentence and a criminal record but has been given a lifetime ban on contacting him.

Many critics argue that such a move would be the start of a slippery slope leading to "designer" babies with selected features such as blue eyes, high intelligence or sporting prowess.

Her plight also inspired Belfast-based MMA fighter Andrew Murphy to donate the ticket profits from his upcoming fight.

Valentine's Day is just a few days away, but that's not going to stop the contestants of this week's Dancing With The Stars from getting all loved up.

Get all loved up and celebrate with Darina Allen’s suggestions for Valentine’s dinner at home.

Valentine’s Day may have become an excuse for commerciality and excess, but there is worse these days than having a day that celebrates love in whatever form.

There is so much to choose from in the beauty aisles this February 14, Katie Wright rounds up the best pressies.

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A new scam reporting website in the North has been visited 10,000 times in its first six weeks.

X-Men Apocalypse isn't out in Japan until August, so they get a special trailer with a neat Deadpool cameo. He even has some mean things to say about the Fox studio which made both X-Men and his own movie.

Oscar Pistorius and some of his relatives have been threatened in an extortion attempt ahead of his sentencing on July 6 for the murder of Reeva Steenkamp, the former athlete's family has said.

There are misconceptions over Oscar Pistorius's murder conviction, his chief defence lawyer said, calling them "enemies" of the case as he asked a judge for leniency for the double-amputee athlete, who is facing a 15-year jail sentence for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

As he took to the stage to present his party’s €4.1bn manifesto, Fine Gael’s director of elections Brian Hayes attempted to win back voters’ wandering hearts. Noting the February 14 date, the MEP held up the 136-page document before telling the waiting audience of journalists and party colleagues: “Happy Valentine’s Day, I hope your dreams come through.”

Paul McCartney has turned his creative talents to a range of new emoji for Skype.

This week online video platform Hulu decided to recreate Jerry Seinfeld’s famous New York apartment as a tribute to the popular show.

Food blogger Roz Crowley takes us into her kitchen and shares her recipe for baking chocolate mousse cake.

Benedict Cumberbatch's wife Sophie Hunter has given birth to a son.

Chris Martin has been writing "love songs" for Gwyneth Paltrow.

Seventy-five-year old couple shows that love never dies.

A couple in their 70s are planning to remarry following a Valentine’s Day proposal 43 years after they first divorced.

Shelly Golay will receive flowers every Valentine's Day from her late husband who had organised the delivery with a local florist before he died.

A father who took his young daughter out for a Valentine's Day meal was left touched when two strangers left him a note praising his parenting.

A Wyoming man suffering from an inoperable brain tumour organised a moving Valentine’s Day surprise for his wife before he passed away.

Lady Gaga has reportedly got engaged.

The Beatles legend play an impromptu two-hour gig and charged just $40 on a first come, first served basis.

A man and a woman planned a Valentine’s Day massacre at a Canadian shopping mall in which they would gun down as many people as they could before killing themselves, police have said.

The perceived high cost of St Valentine's Day is putting some couples of celebrating it.

The crowd over at Facts. have made this handy guide to what not to buy for Valentine's Day,