An American college student who was released by North Korea in a coma has suffered a "severe neurological injury", a spokeswoman for the Ohio hospital treating him said.

For Simon Barnes the Sacred Combe is the Luangwa Valley in Zambia. It is a place to which he returns regularly, sometimes for up to two months. 

From slinky slip dresses to nostalgic sitcoms, the era is back with a vengeance, writes Alexander Fury.

Rachel Marie Walsh knows how to get fashion week-fresh looks now.

England: Help was not just a phone call away for one Lancastrian woman who mistakenly phoned police on the other side of the Atlantic to complain about a dog outside her home.

You see a lot of things in West Hollywood. Today, for example, I saw a hefty, blimp-shaped man wearing nothing but a long brown wig and pink thong bikini while cycling his bicycle. 

Big pharma is promoting ‘pink Viagra’ as the new cure-all for women’s sexual woes, but female desire is far more complex, writes Margaret Jennings.

Tommy Barker reports on an exceptional harbourside home, in impeccable order inside and out.

Some of Albert Square’s most famous residents – Cindy Beale, Pat Butcher and Kathy Mitchell – will be making an EastEnders comeback for Children In Need.

The owner of two shetland ponies that were removed from a Finglas housing estate yesterday is attempting to get the horses back.

Cindy Crawford has withdrawn her children from school.

For kids to have Care Bears, it’s nothing out of the ordinary. But what about a 20-year-old woman with a collection of 600?

A new study claims hurricanes with female names are deadlier than those with male names as people are less afraid of them.

Album: The Pixies - Indie Cindy

George Clooney and his girlfriend Amal Alamuddin have fuelled rumours they're engaged.

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Life’s A Breeze (12A) might have Pat Shortt on its poster but Lance Daly’s (Kisses, The Halo Effect) film centres on Fionnula Flanagan’s grouchy pensioner and debutant Kelly Thornton’s sullen teenager, using the Tipperary comedian for occasional comic effect.

The most gripping crime dramas often revel in the minutiae and onerous procedures of police work.

The family’s victim impact statement read by the deceased’s sister, Cindy Duke:

The sister of a man who was murdered in Cork two years ago said that the family will never be able to forget - or forgive.

The woman accused of murdering a man in Bandon was laughing hysterically in the Garda station holding cell within hours of her arrest, the last prosecution witness in her trial testified yesterday.

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THIS week in Paris models are pounding the catwalks in next season’s clothes.

The 90s are back with a vengeance, but some parts of the apparently beloved decade belong right back there. Case in point: the classic 90s magical family movie.

The Irish-American family who won half of the massive winnings from a record $580m (€447.3m) lottery jackpot in the US are planning a trip to Ireland.

Almost a decade after their daughter was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer as she tried to block its path in a Gaza Strip conflict zone, Rachel Corrie’s parents are preparing for a judge’s ruling in their high-profile civil lawsuit against the military.

Miley Cyrus' father hopes she doesn't rush to get married.

The withdrawal of Smoke Pixie from the quarter-finals of the Sporting Press Irish Oaks is a major blow to her connections following her stunning 28.31 run in dreadful conditions at Shelbourne Park last Saturday.

The early yards are absolutely crucial in tonight’s final of the Macroom Motor Services Stake and favourite Cashen Mafuma will need to be on his toes to avoid trouble if North Bound repeats his antics of the semi-finals.

Everybody remembers when Cindy, Christy, Naomi et al took their clothes off to make the point that animals should be able to keep theirs on, but 20 years later real fur is back on the catwalks, and back on Naomi again. Noelle McCarthy reports

Broadcaster Dick Clark has died.

New albums from five acts show a genre thriving on the best US influences, says Gerry Quinn

Bandon in West Cork is in mourning after the bodies of two men, Jonathan Duke and John Forrester, were recovered from the river, writes Sean O’Riordan.

'Coronation Street' star Kym Marsh has defended new arrival Michelle Collins after soap fans criticised her northern English accent.

Kings of Leon star Jared Followill injured his finger at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards last night.

ACCUSED child-killer Casey Anthony called herself “the worst fucking person” and predicted she would spend eternity in jail in text messages she sent a month after the murder of her daughter Caylee, according to evidence introduced at her trial.

Cindy Crawford is unhappy that today's models are so much skinnier than her contemporaries.

Michelle Collins is joining 'Coronation Street'.

Tyra Banks used to feel "intimidated" by fashion designers.

What do we want, expect, from love? The big question is addressed – if not fully answered, as if it could ever be – in this examination of the birth and death of the marriage of Dean (Gosling) and Cindy (Williams) who, like all of us, begin the journey with high hopes and end it with shattered illusions.

Ryan Gosling had been making notes on relationships for five years to prepare for ‘Blue Valentine’.

A FILM about love, sacrifice and commitment that’s every bit as sombre as the title suggests, Blue Valentine (US/16/116 mins) stars Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams as Dean and Cindy, a blue-collar married couple struggling to keep their marriage together even as they drift apart.

Carlos Santana didn’t mind that it rained on his wedding day.