Some of the top international names in dance music will lead the line-up at this year’s Oxegen Festival, it emerged today.

DOG rescue groups yesterday urged Aer Lingus to reverse their decision to stop carrying animals on short-haul flights.

DOG owners were urged to take greater care of their pets yesterday after animals were treated for swallowing socks, a teddy bear and two rubber ducks in the last two weeks.

The heavily recycled war-of- the-greeks theme, first made popular in the early 1980s, has returned to the screen in an updated form with the cross-gender comedy Sorority Boys. The film is filled to the brim with the crude, embarrassing humour of its predecessors; however its sole joke fails to leave an impact.

Thai police have arrested and fined an English tourist after raiding a bar following an attack on a Japanese TV crew blamed on 'football hooligans'.