Three years of carnage has turned the city mentioned by Shakespeare in Macbeth into a Stalingrad, writes JAMES HARKIN

Michelle Knight is famous for surviving 4,000 days of rape and torture. But that doesn’t pay the rent or buy back her life, writes Abigail Jones.

Andrew Redington has been photographing The Open Championship for Getty Images for more than two decades and was hard at work yet again at St Andrews ahead of this week’s renewal in the Auld Grey Toon.

As the sun shines down on the rebel county, thousands of Corkonians are getting ready for one of this summer’s premier musical highlights — José Carreras and Katherine Jenkins, in concert with the City of Cork Symphony Orchestra.

Will chronic water shortages kill the California dream? by Elijah Wolfson

With chronic shortages of basic goods and services, price increases of 60%, and 30,000 murders per year, the natives, especially the middle classes, are fleeing abroad, says Richard Fitzpatrick

The first race is on Sunday, so you'd better hurry up and choose a driver.

You’re stood at a bus stop, feeling peckish but daren’t leave in case the bus turns up.

Residents of Ferguson were urged to stay home after dark, after days of clashes with police following the shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old.

The Biggest Battle of the Second World War — Fought Behind Closed Doors

Hundreds of people are feared dead after a Malaysia Airlines passenger plane was apparently shot down over eastern Ukraine.

Wayne Rooney insists he does not care what his critics think and is focused only on helping England do well at the World Cup. The Manchester United striker has come in for criticism of late, with some believing he does not warrant a starting place in Roy Hodgson’s side.

Ken Loach and Paul Laverty tell Padraic Killeen about the incredible story of Jimmy Gralton and how his dancehall became a source of conflict with conservative forces.

Queen Elizabeth and celebrities got the first look at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, before the world famous gardening show opens its doors to the public.

Michael, Jared and Matthew, we salute you.

Nelson Mandela was the glowing beacon of hope, shining across South Africa and the world, whose 27 years in jail left him without a trace of bitterness or hatred against those who practised the evil of apartheid.

MEXICAN film Heli divided the critics at Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. Most of the discussion centred on the film’s graphic depiction of violence.

An Irish woman is taking legal action against a major stock photo company after she found her image splashed across ads in city newspapers as a poster child for the rights of HIV-positive people.

The double explosion at the Boston Marathon is the latest in a number of terrorist attacks on sporting events.

Crufts kicks off today, so we're paying tribute to those loveable mutts who look just like their masters.

It seems that Chris Brown is attracting some attention on Twitter today after the Grammy Awards.

I ride in all seven races at Newbury today, but the undoubted highlight promises to be Silviniaco Conti (pictured) in the Denman Chase.

President Barack Obama has named long-time foreign policy aide Denis McDonough as his next White House chief of staff.

Nicky Henderson’s thought process over My Tent Or Yours was fairly transparent as he took the gelding to Huntingdon for the EBF Connolly’s Red Mills “National Hunt” Novices’ Hurdle.

Fifty years after Marilyn Monroe’s death, a new exhibition reveals unseen pictures, her size eight dresses and her secret beauty routine. Suzanne Harrington reports

Wavebreak Media will use €400,000 raised in venture capital to hire 10 people.

Greece must urgently raise interest rates to encourage savings and discourage deposit flight, writes Daniel Gros

Ukraine is becoming a dangerous mix of authoritarianism and corrupt capitalism, writes Tatiana Zhurzhenko

PÁDRAIG HARRINGTON produced an equal lowest score all season in defence of his Iskandar Johor Open but then declared the hurt of his poorest-ever season in the professional ranks.

MART POOM will be looking down on Ireland’s international footballers when they train in his hometown of Tallinn tonight.

FRANCE’S prime minister has condemned an apparent arson attack that destroyed the offices of a satirical French newspaper that had “invited” the Prophet Muhammad as a guest editor.

DOROTHY RODHAM, mother of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton’s mother-in-law, has died at the age of 92 after an illness.

THE marketing blurb describes it as “the ultimate luxury gift book of 2011”.

BROWN Panther bids to confirm himself a realistic Ladbrokes St Leger prospect in the CGA Geoffrey Freer Stakes at Newbury today.

LIVERPOOL manager Kenny Dalglish is confident new signing Charlie Adam can have the same impact at the club as he did at Blackpool.

ANDY RODDICK acknowledged an “outstanding” performance by Feliciano Lopez after losing a match in straight sets at Wimbledon for only the fifth time in his career.

A YEAR on from his Pebble Beach victory, Graeme McDowell is ready to start looking forward again — with this week’s US Open title defence marking the start of the rest of his career.

THE flurry of transfer activity has continued apace as Newcastle have snapped up France international Yohan Cabaye on a five-year deal.

THE bodies of Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, two award-winning war photographers killed by a mortar attack in the besieged Libyan city of Misrata, were yesterday being transported to the rebel stronghold of Benghazi.

A Libyan rebel leader claims that opposition forces have taken control of a post on the Tunisian border near a former rebel-held town.

ENTREPRENEUR Jerry Kennelly is investing close to €20 million of his own money in a online e-commerce design and print venture which he hopes will have a million customers this time next year.

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