A couple are facing life sentences after being found guilty of murdering a teenage boy they accused of witchcraft.

The hunt to find sponsors for some of the key London 2012 venues began today.

A FORMER top model was decapitated and “fed to the fish” by her boyfriend, the Old Bailey has heard.

A TEENAGE girl swore at a gay man after stamping on him and kicking him in the head as he lay unconscious on the ground, a court heard yesterday.

SPACE Shuttle Atlantis and its crew of seven has returned to Earth, ending their exalted Hubble Space Telescope repair mission in California after stormy weather prevented a return to NASA’s Florida base.

Nasa’s astronauts are preparing for a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope – with a standby shuttle being readied for what could be a hazardous trip.

EastEnders' Nasty Nick is set to return to Albert Square this Christmas.

'Star Trek' actor George Takei said he will marry his long-term partner and business manager now that the California Supreme Court has legalised same-sex marriage.

Robert Altman’s 'Streamers' (Metrodome; €24.99) is an infuriating film.

Irish music romance 'Once', whose stars Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova have a best-song Oscar nomination, was named Best Foreign Film at the last night.

Another wonderfully observed ensemble piece – and what an ensemble – from director Altman as several stories weave themselves in and around the coming together of a group of musicians for an all-star C&W radio show … that of the film’s title.

Lindsay Lohan's publicist has hit back at the press after journalists mocked a message the actress wrote following the death of film director Robert Altman.

ROBERT ALTMAN, the acclaimed director of M*A*S*H, Short Cuts and Gosford Park, has died, aged 81.

Robert Altman, the caustic and irreverent satirist behind M*A*S*H, Nashville and The Player who made a career out of bucking Hollywood management and story conventions, died at a Los Angeles Hospital, his Sandcastle 5 Productions Company said today.

Week two of the fresh Basketball Super League Season gets under way this weekend with cross conference fixtures being thrown up for the Novae for Men Super League Men.

UL Aughinish 71 DART Killester 42

SUE ALTMAN has won Irish hearts but now the American who scored 35 points for DART Killester against Carna Transport Mercy in their Superleague semi-final on Sunday wants to win a National Cup medal.

DEFENDING champions DART Killester and UL Aughinish, the side dethroned 12 months ago, will renew rivalry in the final of the Women’s SuperLeague Cup on Sunday week.

Hollywood hunk Val Kilmer refused to star in a string of successful films in the 1980s, because he was "naïve" and "shy".

Israel expects two-thirds of the 9,000 settlers in the Gaza Strip and four West Bank settlements due for evacuation to leave before troops arrive to clear the settlements, a senior Israeli official said today.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is considering delaying the Gaza pullout until mid-August, after the completion of a three-week Jewish mourning period that marks the destruction of the two biblical temples, Israeli officials said today.

Gaza settlers have appointed a team of lawyers to negotiate details of their evacuation from the area this summer, leaders said today.

Lots of people love television...but plenty appear to have had enough of it.

Dance, in all its forms, is one of the fastest-growing artforms in Ireland. Everybody seems to be stepping out.

FIVE men were cleared yesterday of plotting to kidnap Victoria Beckham and ransom her for £5 million.

The Long Island Expressway - the L.I.E. of the title - is infamously a Stateside death-trap. The film borrowing its name is a hit.

Big believers in “Bigfoot” have ignored a history of hoaxes and misidentifications and gathered in the US to exchange stories and peruse books and items on the creature.

Actress Cate Blanchett is to play Mata Hari in a TV film about the infamous First World War spy, it emerged today.

The hyperactive musical, Moulin Rouge, was named best musical or comedy movie and took two other awards at the Golden Globes ceremony in Hollywood, while the schizophrenia drama A Beautiful Mind also claimed three.