Andrew Getty, among the heirs in a family whose name is synonymous with elite American wealth, has been found dead in his Hollywood Hills home of what was most likely natural causes or an accident, authorities and family members said.

FA Cup Fifth Round

Somebody in New York has dipped into their wallet to pay $500,000 (€402,607) a month to rent the 39th floor of the legendary Pierre Hotel.

Is This the End of China’s Economic Miracle?

The Interfax agency has said a Malaysian passenger jet carrying 295 people has crashed in Ukraine.

US president Barack Obama has said that denying climate change is like arguing that the moon is made of cheese.

US president Barack Obama has said denying climate change is like arguing that the moon is made of cheese.

Today's lesson kids - don’t stage a pitch invasion in front of an angry fly-half.

The International Court of Justice has ruled that Japan’s Antarctic whaling programme is not for scientific purposes and has ordered a temporary halt.

Paul Auster

THE skies around Dublin city centre and Cavan Town will have some unusual visitors today.

Chelsea 2 Liverpool 1

Ireland recorded the fourth-highest total in T20 international history as they defeated Afghanistan in the World T20 Qualifying final for the second year running.

Lamar Odom is reportedly planning to expose a sex tape featuring Khloe Kardashian.

Real Madrid's Gareth Bale encourages Cristiano Ronaldo after he missed a goalscoring opportunity during the La Liga game against Malaga at the Bernabeu. Right: Barca coach Gerardo Martino’s in his fashionable light green polo shirt. Pic: Getty

Iggy Azalea believes she has "offended everyone".

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.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin envisions Google’s internet glasses hitting the market this year with an eye toward freeing people from unsocial habits engendered by “emasculating” mobile phones.

The Boomtown Rats have reformed and are coming to Cork!

Michael Carrick believes David de Gea showed his true character in the pressure-cooker atmosphere of a Champions League examination at the Bernabeu.

Paul McGinley will never forget his first meeting with Tom Watson.

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FA Cup Fourth Round: Man Utd v Fulham

The re-election of Vladimir Putin has seen Russia stifle dissent and put reform on the back foot; moves that recall the age of Stalin, writes Nina L Khrushcheva.

Spin the globe at the bottom of the screen and take a journey on the Rhaetian Railway through the Swiss Alps.

Polish hero returns home

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

ONE Irish women who is head of mission with MSF Holland in Iraq, a branch of Médecins Sans Frontières, is heading a rehabilitation programme to help victims of violence lead normal lives once again.

To mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the former Soviet Union, Geoffrey Roberts reflects on what led to the collapse of the institution instigated by the Bolsheviks in 1922

Greece has always looked at its classical age as a usable past but there is no solace in the classics to inspire the country out of its financial and economic woes. What Greece needs is a cultural revolution, writes Fouad Ajami

Jon Corzine has gone from a possible candidate for US Treasury Secretary to the man who presided over the fall of MF Global and the eighth-largest bankruptcy in American history, writes Michael Daly

LITTLE more than 10% of the €60 billion in unpaid tax in Greece is likely to be collected, although negotiations are ongoing with Switzerland in a bid to retrieve some of what has been stashed in secret bank accounts there.

The challenge facing Italy, the ECB and the eurzone is huge but not insurmountable. There are options but time is of the essence, writes Hugo Dixon

JOCKEYING for power among Libya’s well-armed and fractious new leadership may intensify after the death of deposed autocrat Muammar Gaddafi, an anxious and, for many, joyous moment in a country hungry for stability and impatient to swap the bullet for the ballot box.

NEW ZEALAND coach Graham Henry today named an unchanged team for Sunday’s World Cup final against France at Eden Park.

GRAEME McDOWELL now refers to Rory McIlroy as “The Man” — but his own talent was there for all to see again at Castle Stuart near Inverness yesterday.

DAVID Simcock is confident his star turn Dream Ahead is ready to show his true colours in today’s Darley July Cup at Newmarket.

PETER LAWRIE leads the Irish charge at the Scottish Open after day one at Castle Stuart near Inverness.

THOSE few minutes between the victory of the over-enthusiastically ridden Rewilding and the subsequent interviews of connections of runner-up So You Think after the Prince of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot were dark ones for punters and racing fans who had subscribed to the idea that the vanquished ex-Aussie star was the second coming.

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.

RUE McCLANAHAN, the Emmy-winning actress who brought the sexually liberated Southern belle, Blanche Devereaux, to life on the hit TV series The Golden Girls, has died aged 76.

A huge emerald weighing almost half a tonne is at the centre of a legal battle between six people who each claim they own it.

Actor Balthazar Getty regrets not standing up for girlfriend Sienna Miller and his wife Rosetta when the media took aim at them over his infidelities.

Sienna Miller's representative has blasted the British press for alleging the actress had split from oil heir Balthazar Getty last month - insisting recent quotes attributed to the star are "three years old".