A man accused of driving a car into a crowd of anti-fascist protesters in Virginia was fascinated with Nazism, idolised Adolf Hitler and had been singled out at school for his "deeply held, radical" convictions on race, a teacher has said.

Latest: A man faces a murder charge after a car ploughed into a crowd of people protesting against a white supremacist rally in Virginia.

There was great potential in the iconic St Kevin’s asylum, writes Kieran McCarthy.

Former Ford Motor chief Mark Fields, who led the company as it lost almost $25bn (€22.3bn) in market value, could walk away with payouts worth about $57.5m.

Ford plans to cut about 10% of its global salaried workforce while retaining the technology talent it’s recruited to develop driverless and electric cars, according to a person familiar with the strategy.

Ford Motor Co said it will cancel a planned $1.6 billion (€1.5bn) factory in Mexico and invest $700m at a Michigan factory, after President-elect Donald Trump harshly criticised the Mexico investment plan.

Ford has announced it plans to invest $1.6bn (€1.4bn) to build more small cars in Mexico, starting in 2018, triggering a fresh blast of criticism from Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.

A millionaire American lawyer embroiled in a High Court cash battle with his fifth wife had already won a fight to keep his hands on a Steinway baby grand piano.

ENGLAND: A millionaire US lawyer embroiled in a High Court cash battle with his fifth wife is fighting to keep his hands on his second Steinway baby grand piano.

A Russian former beauty queen embroiled in a High Court money fight with her estranged millionaire husband has told how she does not intend to work in future.

A millionaire American lawyer embroiled in a British High Court cash fight with his fifth wife told a judge today that “money cannot buy you love”.

Carmakers and Silicon Valley upstarts are increasing their efforts to define the car of the future, even though many of them disagree about what that car should be.

IT WAS commonly said that the statue of Daniel O’Connell guarded Dublin’s O’Connell St, but that photographer Arthur Fields guarded the bridge. 

An 11-month-old baby has survived after being trapped under the body of her dead father for up to three days.

The wife of Limerick billionaire JP McManus has bagged €35,000 in race winnings, after a greyhound which had beaten her dog to second place in the Irish coursing Derby tested positive for doping.

Ford says its chief executive Alan Mulally will retire on July 1 and be replaced by chief operating officer Mark Fields.

Guilt-racked Britons are using their sheds to eat unhealthy snacks and store love letters from old flames, a new survey has shown.

Tom Cruise has settled with the publisher of two tabloid magazines over stories suggesting he abandoned his daughter after his divorce from actress Katie Holmes.

Arthur Fields spent 50 years standing on Dublin's O'Connell bridge, snapping photos of passers-by. Now, his history of Dublin is being collected for a documentary.

Tom Cruise’s lawyer says the actor will file a rival divorce case but he will not reveal where.

The explanation for a shooting rampage that terrorised a black neighbourhood in the US state of Oklahoma and left three people dead may lie in a killing that took place more than two years ago, it has been revealed.

The bloodthirsty writings of Edgar Allan Poe give birth to a deranged serial killer in James McTeigue’s hack-and-slash thriller set on the streets of 19th century Baltimore.

Hope springs eternal, and at the end of another superb National Coursing Meeting in Clonmel, why not?

Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson is pregnant with her first child, according to a longtime friend.

THERE are only so many times you can breath a sigh of relief before you begin to hyperventilate.

'Kill Bill' actress Uma Thurman is being sued by cosmetics giant Lancome, the French firm confirmed today.

Singer Jennifer Lopez and husband Marc Anthony have reportedly named their newborn twins Max and Emme.

AN Arizona man who allegedly demanded more than $1 million not to publish Tom Cruise’s stolen wedding photographs has been arrested, the actor’s lawyer said yesterday.

A man who allegedly demanded more than $1m not to publish Tom Cruise’s stolen wedding photographs has been arrested, the actor’s lawyer said tonight.

THE California Supreme Court has ruled that Riverdance star Michael Flatley can proceed with an €80 million extortion and defamation case against a woman who claimed he had raped her.

Riverdance star Michael Flatley’s £55.5m (€81m) extortion and defamation case against a woman who claimed he had raped her can proceed to trial, the California Supreme Court has ruled.

Tom Cruise is considering suing US magazine Life & Style for claiming the actor had ended his high-profile relationship with Katie Holmes, according to his lawyer Bert Fields.

Mexican Antonio Margarito made a successful fourth defence of his WBO welterweight belt after he stopped Argentinian fighter and number one contender Sebastian Lujan at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City.

CARMEL FIELDS, press officer, Department of Social and Family Affairs (Irish Examiner letters, August 11) takes me to task for my efforts on behalf of families in dire need of housing prior to the introduction of the rent supplements scheme.

Jennifer Lopez stood up a charity event for orphans when she wed Latin lover Marc Anthony, it was reported today.

Tuesday, January 6 is the date set for the 'Ludlow seven' appeal to the Jockey Club disciplinary panel against the 19-day penalty the riders received following a controversial race at the track last Thursday.

A bumbling attempt to scare a newspaper reporter off a story last year has mushroomed into an FBI probe that has left some of Hollywood’s elite wondering if their phones were illegally tapped.

A judge has rejected an attempt by the granddaughter of Winnie the Pooh creator A A Milne to reclaim the family’s copyrights and reassign them to The Walt Disney Company.

LORD of The Dance star Michael Flatley has decided to use some fancy legal steps in a $100 million counter-claim against Tyna Marie Robertson, the American woman who claims she was raped by him.