The North’s main political parties are at loggerheads tonight over a government scandal that has forced the suspension of a top civil servant.

A Northern Ireland minister who forced the suspension of his top civil servant got the guarded backing of politicians overseeing his handling of the affair today.

Actor Johnny Depp is bringing Hunter S. Thompson's autobiographical novel 'The Rum Diary' to the silver screen - seven years after he was announced as the leading man.

Prosecutors in Poland said today they have filed charges against three managers of a company that owned an exhibition hall which collapsed last month, killing 65 people.

Investigators today began sifting through the wreckage of an exhibition hall in southern Poland to establish why its roof collapsed under a layer of snow.

AN immortal comment from Michael Caine in The Italian Job has been named the greatest one-liner in cinema history.

Northern Ireland civil servants were lambasted today over major fraud by employees in the province’s government-funded small business agency and a failure to recover the money.

Stormont minister Sir Reg Empey is to be questioned about hospitality spending linked to the use of an unauthorised credit card by Northern Ireland tourist board staff in New York.