Rita Ora bravely protected her sister and threatened to “fuck up” a thief in a £200,000 raid on the singer’s home, a court has heard.

Nathan Drake has been through a lot since the first Uncharted game back in 2007, and developers Naughty Dog are set to run him through one last adventure in the upcoming A Thief's End.

Family, friends and politicians bade a final farewell to PJ Mara yesterday as the former government press secretary was laid to rest in Co Galway.

PJ Mara was the most famous political spin doctor in modern Irish history, having played a leading role in Fianna Fáil for more than 30 years.

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X Factor bosses are concerned that contestant Andrea Faustini will not be fit to perform on this weekend’s show after he locked himself into a hotel room for 12 hours.

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The wife of Russian tycoon Dmitry Rybolovlev has won a $4.5bn divorce settlement in a Geneva court.

The most booked models on the Fashion Week circuit had the waist circumference of a seven-year-old child (22 inches). Annmarie O’Connor explores the unwelcome return of the size zero debate.

Just a few hours north of Sochi is the city of Maykop, where Seamus O’Connor’s maternal grandparents were born.

Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the AK-47 assault rifle, apparently wrote a regretful letter several months before his death asking the head of the Russian Orthodox Church if he was to blame for those killed by his gun.

Voice of Ireland finalist Kelly Mongan-McDonagh broke down while singing ‘Amazing Grace’ at the funeral of a 7-year-old Traveller who died after being thrown from a pony.

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Sinead Gleeson talks to the author about how his debut Birdsong enabled his career. His latest shows his love of writing and experimentation undimmed

Soccer star Frank Lampard was yesterday branded a “man without scruples” over his plans to evict his children’s 100-year-old great-grandmother from his Spanish flat.

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Sebastien Loeb wrapped up his ninth consecutive World Rally Championship title in style with victory on home soil in France today.

Killing Them Softly ****

Bad things happen to bad people. In Oliver Stone’s films, the wicked pay heavily for their manifold sins and the Oscar-winning writer-director certainly doles out tough justice to the godforsaken characters in this serpentine and sexually-charged immorality tale co-written by Shane Salerno and Don Winslow.

Salma Hayek is still acting thanks to Oliver Stone.

THE darkest and most adult of the Harry Potter movies, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II (12A) brings to a close the epic saga of the teenage wizard’s battle against the forces of evil.

AN Italian toddler died after her father forgot to drop her off at day-care and left her in his hot car for five hours.

A Italian toddler died after her father forgot to drop her off at a day-care centre and left her in his hot car for five hours.

“WITHOUT her, I wouldn’t be here.”

EVERYONE curses the taxman, but Romanian witches angry about having to pay up for the first time yesterday were using cat excrement and dead dogs to cast spells on the president and government.

Everyone curses the taxman, but Romanian witches angry about having to pay up for the first time are planning to use cat excrement and dead dogs to cast spells on the president and government today.

DNA tests confirmed Romanian communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was buried in a grave in Bucharest, lifting doubt over his burial place.

Forensic scientists exhumed the bodies of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena today at the request of the couple’s family.

TIGER WOODS will know exactly what it’s like to have a genuine handicap when he competes alongside Manuel de Santos in next week’s JP McManus Pro-Am at Adare Manor.

PRESIDENT Barack Obama yesterday picked Elena Kagan, a “trailblazing” legal scholar, to sit on the US Supreme Court, seeking to lock in decades of liberal consensus building on the conservative-dominated bench.

Mickey Rourke has got engaged, it has been revealed.

Kate Moss stormed out of the GQ Men of the Year Awards last night.

Former champions Kim Clijsters and Venus Williams stayed on course for a last-16 showdown at Flushing Meadows after both coming through their US Open second-round ties.

VENUS WILLIAMS ensured the Wimbledon final would be another family affair with a devastating performance against Russia’s Dinara Safina at SW19 yesterday.

Serena Williams fought back from the brink of a shock defeat to stay on course for a third Wimbledon title with victory over Elena Dementieva in the longest women’s semi-final in history.

HE HAD a tight grip on all aspects of his nation’s life but Romanian diplomats were anxious that their president Nicolae Ceausescu would not be outdone by rival communist leader Marshall Tito during a 90-minute stopover in Shannon during April, 1978.

Sebastien Loeb captured a record-breaking fifth straight World Rally Championship drivers' title today by finishing third at the Rally of Japan.

JELENA JANKOVIC reached the first Grand Slam final of her career after seeing off Elena Dementieva in the semi-finals of the US Open on Friday.