Christmas festivities are much the same the world over these days, but not in Spain.

Celtic assistant manager Johan Mjallby insists the club had no option but to take action against the fans whose behaviour marred last Friday night’s win over Motherwell.

New Year, New You - get set to unleash your inner style champion, says Annmarie O’Connor

Halle Berry admits she was shocked by her own decision to marry again.

Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel have reportedly got engaged.

Cheryl Cole has gone on a New Year’s holiday to South Africa with Derek Hough.

Makfi “knows he is a racehorse now” as he prepares for a mouthwatering rematch with Canford Cliffs and Dick Turpin in the St James’s Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot next month.

The ‘Coronation Street’ actress Kym Marsh doesn’t bother to vow to change any aspects of her life because she never sticks to her promises.

A US photographer won the top prize in the World Press Photo competition yesterday with an image of a police officer searching a debris-strewn home in Cleveland, Ohio to ensure evicted residents had left after a mortgage foreclosure.

US actor Eddie Murphy celebrated New Year’s Day by tying the knot with film producer Tracey Edmonds.

The North's First Minister Ian Paisley and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness are to follow up their US investment tour with a visit to Brussels in the New Year, it was confirmed today.

Cooking for Kids with Rachel Allen. Half day course at Ballymaloe Cookery School — 2pm on Friday April 13, tel 021-4646785.

Pope Benedict XVI made a New Year's Day wish today that people would work courageously for world peace, and especially for a lasting end to the Holy Land's conflict, which he said has dragged on for too long.

The singles chart is to celebrate its 1,000th number one in the New Year – and Elvis Presley could land the top spot.

IT’S time to pay off your debts and get set for a some hard graft for those born in the Chinese Year of the Goat, but at least you will have your health.

The leader of Nepal’s communist rebels today offered a month long ceasefire in the six year guerrilla war after a week of fierce fighting in which the government said hundreds of combatants have been killed.

Cherie Blair has resolved to improve her lifestyle by focusing on what’s important in 2002, according to a survey of celebrities’ New Year’s resolutions.