Q. I’m 25 and am addicted to porn. I have a new girlfriend but I find that I can’t get stimulated by her unless we watch porn.

Instagram could predict the next top model at the upcoming New York Fashion Week, according to scientists from Indiana University.

Drugs that prevent the development of treatment-resistant prostate cancer may be in prospect following the discovery of a new protein.

If you hear an Irish rugby player in the coming year using the term ’Always Compete’ or ’Fail Fast’ or admitting to spelling words backwards when they’ve felt over-anxious, you can probably put it down to a recent conversation between Joe Schmidt and a psychologist Dr Michael Gervais.

The unfolding debacle in Iraq has set off a furious — and drearily predictable — partisan dispute in Washington over who was more to blame: George W Bush or Barack Obama, writes Bill Powell

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is dating the CEO of a robotics company.

Two big nutrition headlines recently grabbed my attention. The first related to sugar intake.

A high-protein diet could be as dangerous as smoking 20 cigarettes a day, a new study has found.

A high-protein diet could be as dangerous as smoking 20 cigarettes a day, a new study has found.

James Franco is set to make his Broadway debut in a new production of 'Of Mice and Men'.

A plane packed with more than 300 people slammed into the runway at San Francisco airport and caught fire, forcing many to escape down emergency inflatable slides as flames tore through the Boeing 777.

“Let’s face it,” reasoned Time Magazine, with its online readership on Monday, “It’s good to have the Irish back.”

A sugary syrup used in food manufacture could partly account for rising rates of type-2 diabetes, according to scientists.

Police in Los Angeles say they have arrested one of two men apprehended after a Halloween shooting on the University of Southern California (USC) campus that injured four people.

Former NFL linebacker Junior Seau has been found dead at his California home at the age of 43.

TEA PARTY conservatives scored their biggest political triumph with a debt-ceiling deal that cuts federal spending, but their tactics could risk a voter backlash in the 2012 elections.

A WORKING group of experts has concluded that mobile phones could “possibly” cause brain cancer.

Mobile phone users could be increasing their chances of developing brain cancer, experts have warned.

Fugitive film director Roman Polanski must return to the US to be sentenced in a decades-old sex case, a Los Angeles judge said.

A LOS ANGELES judge said last night fugitive film director Roman Polanski must return to the US to be sentenced in a decades-old sex case.

A Los Angeles judge said tonight fugitive film director Roman Polanski must return to the US to be sentenced in a decades-old sex case.

The largest earthquake ever recorded in the area has rocked Haiti, collapsing a hospital and damaging other buildings.

Award-winning filmmaker Steven Spielberg, long recognised for his artistic achievements, has been honoured with the Liberty Medal for his compassion and humanitarian work.

THE unlikely pairing of Robert Plant and Alison Krauss that produced the hit album Raising Sand won five Grammys including album of the year.

The second set of live-born octuplets in the US were all breathing on their own, 48 hours after a woman gave birth to them in Southern California.

A woman in Southern California gave birth to the second set of octuplets ever delivered alive in the United States.

A woman has given birth to eight babies, only the second time in history octuplets have survived more than a few hours.

WITH her elegant clothes and perfectly coiffed blond hair, Cindy McCain looks the part of a US first lady.

In a gala adorned with Hollywood stars, The Walt Disney Co. wowed an industry crowd in a showcase of its upcoming films that included a sequel to its 1982 sci-fi flick 'Tron' and a Lone Ranger remake with Johnny Depp as Tonto.

Several more bodies remain in the wreckage of a crashed commuter train, in addition to the 18 confirmed deaths already announced, a Los Angeles County coroner’s official said today.

California faces an almost certain risk of being rocked by a strong earthquake by 2037, scientists say.

California faces an almost certain risk of being rocked by a strong earthquake by 2037, scientists said today.

A series of apparently random shootings along Californian main roads are giving drivers the jitters.

Denzel Washington's new movie 'The Great Debaters' has been slammed for its historical inaccuracies - by the college students the film is based on.

Irish Walker Cup player Gareth Shaw helped his East Tennessee State University men’s golf team to a tie for 10th place in a stacked field at the Isleworth-UCF Collegiate Invitational in Windermere, Florida.

The hits keep coming for Britney Spears but they are not the ones that will help put platinum records on her walls.

Hollywood funnyman Will Ferrell is auctioning a cameo spot in his new film to raise money for his college friend's cancer charity.

Niall Turner led home Ireland's quartet of golfers and helped his team to a US collegiate national top10 finish at the season-ending NCAA Championships in Williamsburg, Virginia.

There was disappointment all round for Ireland's trio of golfers at the National Collegiate Athletic Association Regional Championships this week, despite some good individual performances.

On the face of it, it’s the best news of the year, so far. Better, even, than the tax cuts every political party is promising us, right now. A cure for blindness. Not metaphorical blindness. Real blindness.

Scientists have pinpointed the source of nicotine addiction — a one-inch wide pleasure centre deep within the brain. The insula, a small island in the cerebral cortex, has been described as a “platform for feelings and emotion”.