Actress Tessa James undergoes chemo after disgnosis.

Mel B has been banned from starring in 'Australia's Got Talent'.

LESS than an hour after Ireland had succumbed to a very average Scotland side in this year’s Six Nations in Murrayfield, Warren Gatland — present to run the rule over potential Lions — noticed a familiar gathering of IRFU officials in a corner of the hospitality room.

There is plenty of hype around Ireland’s oil exploration sector, but there have also been numerous disappointments. With the Barryroe bonanza this week, could the country be set for a new boom, asks Kyran Fitzgerald

Samuel L. Jackson doesn't miss his wife when they are apart.

Getting his wife and mistress pregnant at the same time was “bad management” by Arnold Schwarzenegger, according to his close friend Kirk Douglas.

Sir Anthony Hopkins has revealed meeting his wife Stella Arroyave in 2003 rescued him from the "slight depression" he was suffering.

A surging river flooded and isolated the latest community hit in Australia’s deadly flood disaster today, straining a levee serving as the main protection between the muddy waters and residents’ homes.

WEST Cork food producer Caherbeg Free Range Pork has just won a highly respected French award for its Rosscarbery Recipes White Pudding range.

RUBI LIGHT, a morning gamble and backed from 7/4 to 5/4 on track, made a successful start over Irish fences when making all to land the Martin Reilly Hyundai Chase at Sligo yesterday, highlight of a superb treble for Barry Geraghty.

PIN-UP Gaelic football star Colm “Gooch” Cooper has made the shortlist of 17 from which the Seven Wonders of Kerry will be chosen.

The Australian government has come under fire from civil libertarians and supporters of an Indian doctor accused of links to the failed car bomb attacks on London and Glasgow.

An eighth suspect wanted in connection with the terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow was arrested in Australia, a television network reported today.

The Australian prime minister has banned the national cricket team from visiting Zimbabwe.

The woman at the heart of the controversy that has embroiled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz said she is a victim and was forced into a job transfer because of their relationship.

Seven American undertakers linked to a scheme to plunder corpses and sell the body parts for transplants pleaded guilty to undisclosed charges and have agreed to co-operate with investigators.

An airliner arriving from Fiji was stopped away from the terminal at Australia’s biggest airport and its passengers evacuated today because of a security threat, officials said.

A massive cyclone tore off roofs and uprooted trees across Australia’s north-eastern coast today, packing winds so powerful that emergency workers were forced to stay indoors, despite pleas from terrified residents.

THERE’S a story that may interest the GAA hierarchy and send a shiver down the spines of RTÉ executives.

Seven music fans were arrested after trouble flared when a gig by controversial rock star Pete Doherty’s new band was cancelled, police said today.

Turnover at oil and gas exploration Ramco increased by 24% to £20.8m (€31.7m) in the year up to December 2003, the company announced today in preliminary results.

New Romantics Duran Duran are recording their first new album together since 1983.

RAMCO ENERGY’S failure to solve gas production problems at its Seven Heads gas field off the Cork coast resulted in a 20%-plus loss in the value of its shares on the London Stock Exchange.

The dollar has fallen to new historic lows against the euro, this time sent reeling by a report suggesting intervention from the European Central Bank to halt the single currency’s rapid rise is some way off.