The Musgrave Group has reached agreement to sell its loss-making UK operations for €57m, despite managing to slash the division’s losses by 67% last year.

Thandie Newton's daughters find her fame "irritating".

Trevor Booker of the Utah Jazz pulled off one of the best shots we have ever seen in their match against Oklahoma City Thunder.

Anything less than an emphatic success for Magician in the Group 3 High Chaparral EBF Mooresbridge Stakes at the Curragh this afternoon will be a major surprise.

Britain’s loss-making Co-operative Bank said it was confident of raising the extra funds it needs to secure its future even without the backing of customer-owned parent, the Co-operative Group.

The Fifty Shades blockbuster trilogy, which sold 100m copies, contributed to the Irish arm of WH Smith almost tripling pre-tax profits last year to €1.542m.

Donald “Duck” Dunn, the bassist who helped create the gritty Memphis soul sound at Stax Records in the 1960s with the legendary group Booker T and the MGs and contributed to classics such as In the Midnight Hour, Hold On I’m Coming and Sitting On The Dock of The Bay, has died at 70.

Fresh worries about the eurozone debt crisis and the UK economy meant London’s blue chip shares index struggled to make significant gains today.

A FILM by American director Mark Romanek based on the novel Never Let Me Go by Booker- winning author Kazuo Ishiguro is to open Cork Film Festival.

YOUR Europe correspondent, Ann Cahill, makes a number of questionable claims in her criticisms of Declan Ganley and Libertas (December 15).

A camper is believed to have been killed by a crocodile in Australia.

The mother of a nine-year-old boy who boarded flights from Seattle to Texas and allegedly led police on a high-speed car chase said on TV today that she was stunned, but proud, of his actions.

Wildfires that have scorched nearly 1 million acres of the bone-dry Texas Panhandle spread even more, fanned by strong wind gusts that reached as high as 52 mph.

Former boxing champion Mike Tyson is planning a comeback, a close friend said today.

A key lieutenant of Marks & Spencer boss Stuart Rose is quitting the struggling retailer to join cash-and-carry chain Booker, it was confirmed today.

Troubled high street retailer Marks & Spencer is looking to increase the number of suppliers it deals with directly in a bid to cut out middlemen and reduce costs, it emerged today.