The Dublin International Piano Competition announces its semi-finalists today, writes Nicki ffrench Davis

A cash-strapped father fears he will have to borrow from the credit union if his local secondary school goes ahead with plans to introduce iPads this year.

The priest of the Italian town where Tom Cruise married Katie Holmes on Saturday rang his church bells louder and for longer during the couple's ceremony, to voice his displeasure of their un-Christian ceremony.