Not all countries in the Middle East aspire to a western-style democratic model and it is this misunderstanding of people’s needs that has led to the inexorable rise of IS, writes JP O’Malley.

With their flat caps, half tans, and muddy shoes, farmers might be an unlikely choice of pin-up, yet every year thousands scramble to get their hands on the Irish Farmer Calendar, ogling the prime Irish beef within.

Bernard Madoff’s decades-long fraud might not have been his only secret.

Clint Eastwood has settled a libel case against the writer and publisher of an unauthorised biography he said portrayed the Hollywood star as a wife beater.