Helen Barlow reflects on a festival in which fabulous females, streaming TV shows and Irish actors took centre stage.

British physicist Peter Higgs and Francois Englert, of Belgium, have won the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics for their theoretical discoveries on how subatomic particles acquire mass.

Based on the first book in the Caster Chronicles series by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, ‘Beautiful Creatures’ is the film that ‘Twilight’ yearned to be.

Savita rally at Irish embassy in Belgium

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