Fifty years after President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963, thousands will mark the day with a solemn ceremony in Dealey Plaza, through which the president’s motorcade passed when shots rang out.

Jimmy Savile's former personal assistant has said the disgraced TV star "thought he was untouchable", while it was also announced that a hospital cafe named after the entertainer will have its name changed.

I DOZED off in front of the telly on Saturday night, but woke up in time to switch channels and catch the RTÉ nine o’clock news.

Arctic Monkeys are releasing their new single 'Crying Lightning' in Oxfam charity shops.

WOULD I have advised Enda Kenny to take a pay cut, all by his little self? Are you kidding? I’d have stayed a mile away from the suggestion, partly because his colleagues were inevitably going to be asked if they’d do likewise and fail to be thrilled by the possibility, but mainly because I know his wife.

Thrifty shoppers have helped annual sales at Oxfam’s stores jump to £80m (€101.5m), it was revealed today.

Actress Goldie Hawn, historian David McCullough and chef Jacques Pepin will be among the contributors to The Book That Changed My Life: A Hundred Reasons to Read from a Hundred People Worth Reading, to be published next summer by Gotham Books, an imprint of Penguin Group USA.