Harry Potter star Emma Watson has graduated from a US university.

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The Rolling Stones feel younger than their years.

Emma Watson has confirmed that she is planning to return to college in America.

Preston have announced that manager Phil Brown has left the club with immediate effect.

Emma Watson, the British actress who plays Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film series, has denied reports that she was bullied out of Brown University in Rhode Island, US.

THE question of who should pay for third level education has been an elephant in the room of politics for most of a decade — but never so much as it is in our current economic doldrums.

HARRY POTTER star Emma Watson has a whole host of attributes.

Emma Watson “felt sick” when she realised she was a millionaire.

INFORMED sources at Eircom say staff accept the need for significant redundancies at the company – but say the rumoured 2,000 job losses are likely to be spread over at least five years.

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Anne Hathaway's friends are worried she's headed for heartbreak - five months after splitting from her jailed ex-boyfriend, Raffaello Follieri.

GOOGLE has topped a list of the world’s most powerful brands for the second year running — as its value soars by 30% to $86 billion (€54bn).

BLARNEY Woollen Mills is investing €2 million in a venture which has been hailed as Ireland’s answer to Abercrombie & Fitch.

WOMEN of Ireland don’t for a minute believe that bleaching makes your moustache invisible: Get it waxed.

In truth, the former chancellor’s depressed share price before he assumed the keys to No 10 was hugely to his advantage.

The tobacco industry is using cigarette advertising in shops and PG-rated Hollywood films to deliberately target children, a leading expert claimed today.

THE Government is losing support and Fine Gael is fast making ground, according to two new opinion polls.

Meteor have announced the launch of free Meteor-to-Meteor calls for all existing and new business customers.

The ISEQ index rebounded after its recent slump as investors shopped for bargains and closed up 149.34 points to 7510.71.

The ISEQ index of Irish shares made up for some of yesterday's losses, rising 149.34 points to 7510.71, by the end of day's trading.

The ISEQ index of Irish shares has bounced back from yesterday's loss of over 200 points, rising 130.97 to 7492.34 by 2.30 pm this afternoon.

Australian finance house Babcock and Brown has joined forces with the eircom Employee Share Ownership Trust (ESOT) to make a long-anticipated €2.4bn offer for eircom.

The ISEQ index of shares dipped below the 7,900 mark today, down 7.19 points to 7893.28.

Shares in Eircom rose 1c to 2.17 following the announcement that it has opened its books to bidders Babcock and Brown and the Employee Share Ownership Trust (ESOT), the telecoms company announced today.

BABCOCK & BROWN is expected to make a full bid for Eircom this week, according to reports.

ACCORDING to weekend reports, Babcock & Brown - the Australian-based investment bank hoping to buy Eircom - is planning to buy more shares in Ireland's biggest telecommunications company to 29.9% over the course of this week.

THE ISEQ index edged slightly higher yesterday continuing its recent positive momentum.

The online gambling performance of bookmaker Ladbrokes left it in bullish mood today as the former Hilton company marked its first day as a standalone business.

SHARES in Dublin continued to rise led by a surge in banking and construction stocks. The ISEQ index climbed 68.97 points to 7861.95.

THE ISEQ Index closed in positive territory for the first day in four with Elan and the banks the main catalysts for the rise.

EIRCOM shares surged by as much as 6% yesterday on speculation that it may be the subject of a takeover bid.

EIRCOM shareholders were €330 million better off last night after the phone company’s shares shot up 15% on the back of a takeover approach from Switzerland’s market leader.

Ladbrokes was today neck-and-neck with William Hill as the UK’s biggest bookmaker after buying 141 family-run betting shops.

The final verdict on Christmas trading in Britain was delivered today as high street stalwarts Boots and WH Smith rounded off the season for sales updates.

COURT in southern China has jailed five workers following protests at a Taiwanese-owned factory making name-brand shoes, a labour rights group said yesterday.

BROWN THOMAS owner Galen Weston is closer to completing his £598 million bid for department store group Selfridges after receiving more acceptances from shareholders.

BROWN THOMAS owner Galen Weston’s $1 billion bid for Selfridges Plc, a luxury-goods retailer that competes with Harrods, may cost Canada’s second-richest man as little as $5 million of his own money.

WORKERS who accidently severed a water pipe caused millions of euro worth of damage to one of Dublin’s landmark department stores yesterday.

Arsenal have opened the scoring against Conference side Farnborough through Sol Campbell at Highbury.