Forensic experts have opened Salvador Dali's coffin to obtain DNA samples that could help settle a paternity lawsuit, a court spokeswoman said.

Some of the most famous artists in history may have left subtle clues to brain disease in their work, scientists have found.

Men die six years younger than women and are more often victims of suicide. Rita de Brún meets the Australian trying to change all that.

Look no further for the best things going on this week.

Bored of London and Brussels? Then try Oxford and Bruges instead. Tony Clayton-Lea picks the best destinations 30 miles from Europe’s top airports. 

Journalist Lynn Barber tells Richard Fitzpatrick why interviewers shouldn’t be afraid to look stupid and how she asked Jimmy Savile ‘that question’

WHEN the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali paraded his pet lobster along the Rue de Rivoli in Paris he must have seemed as exotic as anything — or anyone — led along the promenade in Kinsale.

Salvador Dali’s Le Cheval a la Montre Molle (Horse Saddled with Time) is at James Adam on June 22 estimated at€11,000-€15,000.

IF you’ve travelled at all to the Costa Brava region in Catalonia, northern Spain, chances are you’ve been to Girona — you just mightn’t know it.

THE surprising thing about the Museum Hotel is not what it is — a museum and a hotel — but where it is, in Cappadocia, in eastern Turkey.

THE singer’s face is puce.

Hugh Jackman was involved in a doggie pile-up in New York City yesterday.

THE fashion world welcomes fabulous eccentrics. Attention is vital for survival, so those who strike a dramatic, individual, colourful presence get media space and transform column inches into lucrative fashion roles.

Historically, make-up was for harlots and actresses.

Police are looking for a man who stole a $150,000 (€118,633) Salvador Dali painting from a New York art gallery.

Edvard Munch’s masterpiece, The Scream, one of the world’s most recognisable works of art, has sold for $120m (€91.28m) at Sotheby’s, setting a new record as the most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction.

PEAMOUNT UNITED need a miracle in Paris next Wednesday after their UEFA Women’s Champions League ambitions took a huge dent last night.

FARMERS may have to cope with radically changed disease eradication rules in conjunction with a reformed Common Agricultural Policy after 2013.

Simon Cowell is having a Salvador Dali-themed wedding.

LIKE him or scoff at his, shall we say idiosyncrasies (Caribbean cocktail of hair colours, for starters), no-one can ever describe David James as your typical Premier League half-wit.

Antonio Banderas is set pick up a brush and easel and play Salvador Dali in a new biopic of the Spanish surrealist artist.

A FRENCH-based company headed by Irish personnel will be offering wine-tasting tours in the Languedoc Roussillon region of France this summer.

Stan Moore hopes Dont Dili Dali can enjoy some luck in running in the Blue Square Nassau Stakes at Goodwood on Saturday.

A film collaboration between Salvador Dali and Walt Disney is to receive its British premiere at Tate Modern.

Don’t Dili Dali will aim for a deserved first Group success in the Blue Wind Stakes at Naas on Wednesday.

Former South African President Nelson Mandela joined the nation today in mourning his long-time friend and fellow veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle, Adelaide Tambo.

Al Pacino is set for one of his greatest acting challenges after signing on to play eccentric artist Salvador Dali in a new biopic.

London's National Gallery's hotly anticipated Velazquez exhibition opens today, with a record number of advance ticket sales ensuring it will be a blockbuster.

No one has a deeper or more dazzling bag of tricks than Ronaldinho, who’s determined to make this Brazilian side the best ever. Grant Wahl reports.

An award winning comedy about Sigmund Freud is to have its Irish premiere in Dublin in line with the 150th anniversary of the birth of the renowned psychiatrist.

Destino, a collaboration between Salvador Dali and Walt Disney, has finally been completed – 58 years after work on it began.

IN THE hope of creating a wall of sound that echoes down the years, every Rangers fan who funnels through the turnstile tonight will be issued with a card, on the back of which are printed the lyrics to an old song.

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider director Simon West, who recently announced his plans for a maritime adventure epic The Sailmaker, is to also direct and produce a smaller, lower-budget film about the artist Salvador Dali.

A sketch by surrealist artist Salvador Dali has been stolen from the lobby of New York’s notorious Rikers Island jail.