Do you ever tie your shoelaces and think "This is taking soooo long. I’m a busy man/woman/child. I have so many important things to be doing. Like sitting and staring into space while I think about getting up’?

Cormac O’Keeffe catalogues the painstaking policing and investigative work, as well as the chance discoveries, that contributed to the conviction of Graham Dwyer for the murder of Elaine O’Hara. (This article was originally published in March 2015)

Bondage cuffs, chains, knives, a leather mask, rope, a ball gag, a blindfold, and the keys to Elaine O’Hara’s home were found in a lake.

YOU ARE set for a family trip to an open farm and your daughter wants to wear a frilly, ankle-length princess dress. You think she’ll look ridiculous and tell her so.

Is your house floating away on a puff of precious heat? Kya deLongchamps suggests ways to keep bills down.

The world’s first test-tube burger, made from lab-grown meat, was today cooked and served in London.

TEETHING GLOVE

Kick it with some ‘90s flare in a pair of Velcro wedge high-tops.

IT could be said Bell X1 live are like Velcro. In that you just want to storm the stage and stick yourself quite forcefully to leadman Paul Noonan.

Handcuffs may soon become kinder and gentler in New York City – at least for unruly school children.

ANOUSHEH Ansari, the world’s first female paying space tourist, returned to Earth yesterday after 11 days in space capped by the bone-jarring journey home from the international space station.

Employing the kind of NASA ingenuity used to avert disaster on the Apollo 13 mission, an astronaut prepared for an emergency repair job on Discovery’s exterior today with forceps, scissors and a hacksaw fashioned out of a blade and duct tape.

A British man who streaked on the field of play during the Super Bowl in Houston went on trial yesterday accused of trespass.

More than 70,000 people caught Mark Roberts’ last performance in Houston. Only six will be needed for the next one.

US Marines have discovered a cache of suicide bomb vests hidden in a school in a residential neighbourhood of central Baghdad.

Cate Blanchett says she expects people to draw parallels between her new film and September 11.