WHAT do you think you ought to read in a ‘very English’ book about post-war Europe, Spies and the Cold War? 

It will be a sad day indeed when Tom Cruise grows too old to sprint across our screens, but that day, if Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (12A) is any indication, will be a long time coming.

Germany was fooling itself if it believed the peaceful post-WW2 neighbourhood it helped create transcended the logic of brute force, as the Ukraine crisis reveals, writes Lucian Kim.

Tryster showed the engine of a potentially high-class horse when coming from almost last to first with a sensational burst of speed to secure the Coral Easter Classic All-Weather Middle Distance Championships Conditions Stakes at Lingfield yesterday.

Atletico Madrid have a mountain to climb if they are to qualify for the Champions League quarter-finals after they endured a night to forget at Bayer Leverkusen.

Paris St Germain 2 Bayer Leverkusen 1 (PSG win 6-1 on agg)

A former Playboy model has been extradited from the US to Australia to face cocaine conspiracy charges.

A jury has found a trucking company and one of its drivers should pay $150 million (€109m) in damages to a 13-year-old girl who watched her family burn to death in a fiery crash on a Southern California freeway nearly four years ago.

Photographs have a curious power to stir the imagination, there is nothing quite like them for communicating a sense of the past.

‘Admission’ is a lightweight romantic comedy about a key member of staff at one of America’s most prestigious universities, who bears this responsibility of making or shattering young dreams.

They began the day so well, but as Graeme McDowell and Rory McIlroy were beaten in their fourball match with Keegan Bradley and Phil Mickelson at Medinah last night, they had the look of heavyweight boxers taken 12 rounds.

Davis Love’s two current major champions and a pumped-up Keegan Bradley more than made up for the struggles of Tiger Woods as the United States threatened to take a grip on the Ryder Cup in Chicago today.

The opening session of the Ryder Cup was shared 2-2 for the first time since 1997 after an action-packed – and for a moment contentious – morning’s golf at Medinah in Chicago.

USA Ryder Cup captain Davis Love III was last night close to tears as he praised Phil Mickelson’s leadership skills as the left-hander prepares to make an American record ninth appearance at Medinah tomorrow.

Rory McIlroy was in a philosophical mood after failing to capture the FedEx Cup $10m bonus at the Tour Championship East Lake, Atlanta, on Sunday.

It is American Brandt Snedeker rather than Europe’s Rory McIlroy who goes into this week’s Ryder Cup €8.7m richer, but what a match is now in prospect in Chicago.

United States captain Davis Love III cannot wait for the action to start after completing his line-up for this month’s Ryder Cup.

Graeme McDowell already has a dream pairing in his mind for tomorrow’s final round of the Open Championship – but it is with former college rival Brandt Snedeker and not Tiger Woods.

He may be the world No 29 and three-time PGA Tour winner but the last time the public outside of the golfing bubble got a good look at Brandt Snedeker they will have seen an American kid getting all choked up about losing the Masters.

Former champion Paul Lawrie acknowledges he has given himself the best chance to win The Open since his victory in 1999 but so far he sees no comparisons with that triumph.

Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes reached a settlement yesterday, legally sorting out their divorce with the same speed that kicked off their much-scrutinised romance seven years ago.

DAVID FINCHER has directed some very good crime films during his distinguished career, including Se7en (1995) and Zodiac (2007), but it’s unlikely The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (18s) will feature on a show-reel of his finest moments when the Academy finally gets around to presenting him with a lifetime achievement award.

'Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol’ is an “evolution” of the series.

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Jurors in a woman's third trial found her guilty today of burning her baby daughter to death in a microwave oven.

THE turbulence in Egypt and Libya, which is now spreading throughout the middle East, has some playing out to do. It is bound to have international repercussions, and it’s impossible to see the shape of all of them.

Prime minister Julia Gillard said today no major party had won a majority of parliamentary seats in Australia’s general election and she had started negotiating with independent MPs in an effort to cling to power.

'Goodfellas' director Martin Scorsese and the movie's star Robert De Niro are returning to the murky underworld of the New York mob for a new gangster film.

Markus Wolf, the “man without a face” who outwitted the West as communist East Germany’s long-serving spymaster, has died.

DO YOU remember the phrase ‘Ich bin ein Berliner?’ Most people of my generation do because it was uttered by John F Kennedy a day or two after he completed his famous visit to Ireland in 1963.

Jennifer Aniston has settled a lawsuit with the photographer who shot topless photos of the actress late last year.

Jessica Simpson has reportedly fired her agent Brandt Joel after he was involved in a furious row with her father Joe.

A GERMAN cannibal was led handcuffed into court yesterday for a retrial to determine whether killing a man who wanted to be eaten amounts to murder.

Jennifer Aniston has been attacked by the photographer who took snapshots of her sunbathing - for being barely dressed on her own property.

Friends star Jennifer Aniston is suing a photographer, claiming he invaded her privacy by using a telephoto lens to photograph her inside her home when she was topless or partly undressed.

JANET Leigh, the wholesome beauty whose shocking murder in the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller Psycho was credited with making generations of film fans think twice about stepping into a hotel room shower, has died, aged 77.