Wondering how to keep your teenager busy this summer when summer jobs are thin on the ground? Fancy tipping your toe back into education? Grainne McGuinness is raving about MOOCs, short online courses, many of which are free.

Nobel Prize winner John Forbes Nash and his wife and his wife Alicia were killed in a taxi crash in New Jersey.

Elizabeth O’Neill spent an afternoon with an expert in behavioural economics, a new field that looks at our attitudes to value. She thought she was financially savvy, but now...

Irish universities remain outside the world’s elite when it comes to reputation among global academics, according to the latest rankings.

Tommy Gilbert Jr has been arrested on suspicion of shooting Tommy Sr, a rich Wall St investor. How did such a gilded life corrode? asks Lynnley Browning

A 30-year-old man shot his hedge fund founder father dead inside his New York apartment after the pair argued over the son’s allowance, police said.

‘Newsweek’ says Satoshi Nakamoto is the creator of cyber currency bitcoin, but the cantankerous, obsessively private engineer has denied it. So is the magazine right, asks Dan Buckley

Jean Hanff Korelitz’s new novel is about self-deception, says Richard Fitzpatrick.

The all-clear has been given after report of gunshots at one of the US’s most prestigious universities.

The rich are getting richer.

Edward Harty saddles the JP McManus-owned Princeton Plains, who was last seen going down by a neck in a valuable handicap at Listowel in September in The Ladbroke, one of the most competitive handicap hurdles of the season at Ascot today.

Life-saving kidney exchange programmes and ways for schools to select students are just two practical applications of the market-matching theories for which US economists Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley won the Nobel prize for economics yesterday.

PRINCETON PLAINS, who failed to win a maiden over flights or on the flat, broke his duck in style with a last-gasp success in the valuable ladbrokes.com Handicap Hurdle at Killarney yesterday.

Barack Obama’s daughters have already said life in the White House will be “cool” – and they think dad talks too much.

MICHELLE OBAMA will bring the skills of a corporate lawyer to the White House if her husband wins the US presidency, but she says her priority will be her role as “mom-in-chief” to the couple’s daughters.

In 'Leatherheads' (Cert PG, 109 mins, Universal Pictures UK €20.41) George Clooney turns the act of staring dreamily down the lens of the camera into an art form, seducing half the female viewers before Renee Zellweger’s blonde bombshell reciprocates his advances.

US physicist John Archibald Wheeler, who had a key role in the development of the atom bomb and later gave the space phenomenon black holes their name, has died at 96.

Animal magnetism helps bats to navigate over long distances, scientists have learned.

BACKSTAGE, behind the floodlights, moments before he gave the 2004 Democratic convention keynote address that would launch his career into the national stratosphere, Barack Obama made a confession to his wife, Michelle.

A man suspected of stalking US President George W Bush's niece Lauren was arrested by secret service agents on the campus of Princeton University on Friday.

THE end of the world wide web may be nigh, top technology companies warned yesterday.

Folk and rock legend Bob Dylan picked up an honorary degree from British royal Prince William's Scottish university yesterday.

THE UCC football club will mark the conclusion of their celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the club’s foundation with matches against teams representing the famous Harvard and Princeton universities in America next week.

Belfast poet Paul Muldoon has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

Admissions officers at one of America’s most exclusive universities apparently accessed the records of Lauren Bush, the president’s niece, several times, it was reported today.