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Former Taoiseach Brian Cowen has defended the decision to go with the bank guarantee in September 2008; US billionaire Donald Trump has finally won his battle against plans for a windfarm near Doonbeg; Harry Shearer, voice of Mr Burns in The Simpsons will be back in the role of the evil nuclear power plant boss. Just some of the latest and most read stories on irishexaminer.com

Former Taoiseach Brian Cowen has defended the decision to go with the bank guarantee in September 2008; mother of student who has been missing since he was swept into the sea at Baltimore last week has made an emotional appeal for more divers to help find her son; Harry Shearer, voice of Mr Burns in The Simpsons will be back in the role of the evil nuclear power plant boss. Just some of the latest and most read stories on irishexaminer.com.

Fugitive film-maker Roman Polanski has broken his silence on extradition demands by the US over a 33-year-old under-age sex case.

Roman Polanski is “overwhelmed” by the support he has received since being arrested in Switzerland.

Fugitive Cesare Battisti, a former Italian revolutionary who reinvented himself as a writer in France while wanted in Italy for two 1970s murders, has been arrested near Brazil’s Copacabana beach.

Oprah Winfrey and Jude Law have come out tops in a list of the world’s best-dressed people.