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AS ADULT babies Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un continue to see who has the biggest, hardest, longest missiles, we can only scan the horizons in desperation for Dennis Rodman.

While US action is needed over the death of Otto Warmbier in North Korea, the goal must be to ensure no other student meets his fate, writes Dan DePetris.

Al Pacino’s “Inches” speech in Any Given Sunday may make the hairs stand on the back of your neck, says Dr Ed Coughlan. But does it work? Consistently? And if so, for how long? Or is it just for effect?

Here's what you need to know.

Joan Rivers is to appear on 'Celebrity Apprentice'.

As Pete Townshend and the lads put it; we won’t get fooled again. We are a chastened people, with watchdogs in place to rein us in, to stop us making the same old mistakes.

This reporter spent the last three weekends in Mallow, watching the drama of the McGrath Cup unfold and then... refold, as Cork won the competition last Sunday.

I had no intention of writing about this topic until I saw a former basketball legend singing Happy Birthday to a North Korean dictator.

Dennis Rodman has checked into an undisclosed alcohol rehabilitation centre to treat his long-time struggle with alcoholism, his agent says.

Controversial basketball star Dennis Rodman has checked into an alcohol rehab clinic, according to his agent.

It’s an unusual title to put on your CV but breaking away from the ordinary is key to his success, reckons Paddy Power’s Head of Mischief, Ken Robertson.

During the 2011 Ryder Cup in Medina Golf Club, Chicago, television cameras captured Rory McIllroy as he looked into a cloudless sky to see ‘GO RORY!’ being spelt out by a plane emitting puffs of smoke from its bowels. He stopped, took out his phone and took a photo.

Broadcaster Matt Cooper has spoken about his attendance at one of the most bizarre basketball games in history which culminated in former NBA star Dennis Rodman leading 40,000 people in singing happy birthday to North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un.

Former US basketball star Dennis Rodman led an auditorium of North Koreans in singing Happy Birthday to their leader yesterday.

Because truth is stranger than fiction.

It’s definitely a novel way to spend a week off. Today FM broadcaster Matt Cooper is in North Korea as part of documentary crew covering a basketball game stuffed with former NBA stars, and coinciding with the birthday of leader Kim Jong-un.

Basketball star Dennis Rodman has held tryouts for a North Korean team to face a dozen NBA veterans in an exhibition game on leader Kim Jong Un’s birthday next month – though he has not convinced all the players on the US team that it is safe to go to Pyongyang.

Former NBA star Dennis Rodman is flying to North Korea to help train the national basketball team and renew his friendship with the North’s young leader Kim Jong Un.

Kim copycat creates chance career

Dennis Rodman, the ex-basketball star who visited North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, has been slam dunked by GQ magazine, which has named him least influential celebrity of 2013.

Liverpool defender Mamadou Sakho insisted: “I am not a hero,” after his two goals helped France beat Ukraine 3-0 and qualify for the 2014 World Cup.

On the surface, the former basketball player Dennis Rodman seems easy to grasp.

Max George has been secretly dating Carmen Electra.

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Flamboyant former NBA star Dennis Rodman has returned to North Korea to visit his ‘friend’ leader Kim Jong-Un, playing down speculation he would try to help free a jailed American.

Former NBA star Dennis Rodman is tapping his friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to ask for the release of a Korean-American man sentenced to 15 years of hard labour in the North.

It’s a month since the UN passed a resolution imposing sanctions on North Korea over its nuclear testing. Since then a geopolitical game of cat and mouse has taken place between Pyongyang, Seoul, and Washington. David Keelaghan in Seoul looks at the potential consequences.

Black smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel earlier today, meaning Roman Catholic cardinals did not elect a pope in their second or third rounds of balloting.

Catholics around the world are still waiting for a new Pope, as cardinals signalled at 7.41pm that they had failed on their first attempt to find a leader for the Church.

Former basketball star Dennis Rodman continued to laud North Korea’s ruler as an “awesome kid” and his father and grandfather as “great leaders” at the end of his basketball diplomacy mission to Pyongyang.

The US State Department has criticised North Korea for “wining and dining” visiting ex-National Basketball Association star Dennis Rodman while its own people go hungry.

Ex-basketball star Dennis Rodman has hung out with Kim Jong Un during an improbable journey to North Korea, watching the Harlem Globetrotters with the leader and later drinking and dining on sushi with him.

Ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman met North Korea’s Kim Jong Un on the third day of his improbable journey to Pyongyang, telling the leader “You have a friend for life”, a delegation spokesman said.

Simon Cowell has confirmed he is dating Carmen Electra.

Carmen Electra has called off her engagement to Rob Patterson.

DURING her reign at the top of pop’s pecking order, Madonna has changed her men almost as often as she has changed her image.

Carmen Electra is set to wed for a third time after accepting former 'Korn' rocker Rob Patterson's Las Vegas proposal at the weekend.

Dennis Rodman has denied accusations he sexually harassed a Las Vegas hotel employee, insisting he would "never hurt or harm anyone".

A former hotel worker has accused US ex-basketball star Dennis Rodman of rubbing against her and slapping her on the buttocks.

Rocker Dave Navarro and actress Carmen Electra's divorce was officially finalised yesterday.

Shane Lynch has become the latest name to quit ITV reality show Love Island.

Big Brother evictee George Galloway may be watching his celebrity status wane after selling just a few dozen tickets for his one-man show next month, it emerged today.

Big Brother reject Dennis Rodman today shook off his eviction blues by signing for the Genesis Brighton Bears basketball team.