Melissa McCarthy’s move away from comedy has paid off with an Oscar nomination for her role as a real-life fraudster, writes Laura Harding.

Police in Paris have recovered all the jewels stolen from the Ritz Hotel in a dramatic heist, but are still searching for two thieves who got away, officials said.

The events of this summer show a world in which nations seem notably closer than ever before to turning to force, writes Peter Apps            

Censorship in Ireland, which was largely overturned 50 years ago, meant the public couldn’t easily get their eyes on work by our best writers, making it a badge of honour, says Donal Ó Drisceoil.

Six people have been treated for injuries but no one was gored in the sixth running of the bulls at Pamplona's San Fermin festival, officials said.

At least two people have been gored and several more injured during the second running of the bulls in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona.

The pride a French waiter takes in the job is striking and in our increasingly slap-dash world, where familiar traditions are being lost at speed, it’s a joy to see a vestige of a bygone era, writes Clodagh Finn.

Colm Tóibín will address the themes of emigration and exile at the upcoming Immrama festival of travel writing, says Marjorie Brennan.

USA: A young Hunter S Thompson went to Idaho to write about Ernest Hemingway and decided to take a piece of his hero home with him — a set of trophy elk antlers.

Six foreigners were among seven people gored in a hair-raising second running of the bulls at Pamplona's San Fermin festival.

Do a Wikipedia search for ‘Joe Schmidt’ and you won’t be hit with a bio and pic of Ireland’s current rugby union coach, writes Brendan O’Brien.

Two and a half days isn’t nearly enough in the city they call the Big Easy, as Tim Vaughan discovered

 

SWITZERLAND: Swiss army helicopters have crossed the Franco-Swiss border in an unexpected incursion — to help thirsty Swiss cows.

One person was gored twice by a fighting bull and two people injured in the second bull-run of Pamplona’s San Fermin festival. Thousands of thrill-seekers ran alongside the bulls.

Three people were gored and eight others injured as thousands dashed alongside fighting bulls through the streets of Pamplona on the first bull run of the San Fermin festival in northern Spain.

American author Liza Klaussmann speaks to Sue Leonard about the toll the creative process can take on the imagination, particularly when writing fiction about factual characters 

MARY GAUTHIER has been described by The Wall Street Journal as “one of Americana music’s most admired artists — across the U.S. and...around the world.” The 53-year-old, Louisiana-born singer and songwriter will play five shows in Ireland in May.

Wednesday night, upstairs, and my husband is resurrecting his Spiderman Scuttle - something to do with muscle flexion, I seem to remember - which involves scampering sideways, like a crab, back and forth across our bouncy floor-boards so that the bed shakes.

I promise to enforce a statute of limitations on Web Summit references. It was only last week, though, so surely you’re not jaded with the coverage just yet. You’re not? Good.

Lauren Bacall, the award-winning actress and Humphrey Bogart’s partner off and on screen, has died at 89.

1. Lauren Bacall was a defining film star of the 40s with an incredible acting career spanning seven decades.

Ger Lyons can continue his terrific campaign by saddling Brendan Brackan to land the Listed Platinum Stakes at Cork tonight.

A fighting bull gored two Australians and a Spaniard, spreading panic in a hair-raising final running of the bulls at Spain’s San Fermin festival.

An American who co-wrote a book called How to Survive the Running of the Bulls was badly gored in the morning bull run at Pamplona’s San Fermin festival.

Thousands of revellers crammed into the main square and adjacent narrow streets of northern Pamplona today for the start of Spain’s famed San Fermin running of the bulls festival – a potent mix of adrenaline and alcohol-fuelled celebrations that span over a week.

Mick Halford is charting a possible path to the Palmerstown House Estate Irish St Leger with his two smart stayers Certerach and Dabadiyan.

Thistle Bird struck Group One gold at the age of six as she dispelled any stamina concerns with an emphatic victory in the Newbridge Silverware Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh yesterday.

Leading Light, winner of the Queen’s Vase 12 months ago, heads the ante-post market for next Thursday’s Ascot Gold Cup after the latest declaration stage yesterday.

Gone With The Wind author Margaret Mitchell has been crowned the queen of the literary put-down in a new poll.

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Al Kazeem has been given the go-ahead to run in the Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp on October 6.

Dunaden and Green Moon, winners of the last two Emirates Melbourne Cups, head the weights for this year’s renewal at Flemington Park on November 5.

Trainer-jockey Johnny Murtagh believes Royal Diamond is in even better form now than he was a year ago as the admirable stayer prepares to defend his crown in tomorrow's GAIN Irish St Leger at the Curragh.

Sheikh Mohammed is facing fresh embarrassment following the seizure of 124 medical products, none of which have been approved for use on horses in Britain, at part of his Dalham Hall Stud operation in Newmarket.

Aidan O’Brien is definitely the most self-deprecating trainer in the country and, when knocking himself, something he does quite often, most take it with the proverbial pinch of salt.

Aidan O'Brien was thrilled to see exciting juvenile War Command put a shock reverse behind him with a stylish victory in the Galileo European Breeders Fund Futurity Stakes at the Curragh this afternoon.

Abercrombie & Fitch plunged the most in more than 21 months after forecasting profit for the current quarter that was less than analysts estimated amid declining traffic at its stores.

Ernest Hemingway and Royal Diamond will lock horns again in the Irish St.Leger next month following a titanic battle in last night’s Group 3 Ballytroan Stakes in Leopardstown which saw the Ballydoyle colt prevail, with Jim Bolger’s three-year-old filly Scintillula a close and creditable third.

Jockey Joseph O’Brien is praying the rain stays away from Ascot to allow St Nicholas Abbey show his true brilliance in Saturday’s King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

Hillstar has, as expected, been supplemented for the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot on Saturday.

An Australian woman was seriously injured during the final bull run of this year’s annual San Fermin festival in Spain.