SCIENTISTS excavating a creek bed in Texas found tools and other artifacts dating back 15,500 years, making it the oldest settlement site ever found in North America.

'Slumdog Millionaire' continued its rags-to-riches march through Hollywood's awards season as its filmmaker Danny Boyle won the top honour from the Directors Guild of America.

ALLIED Irish Bank’s (AIB) attitude towards former property developer Tom Gilmartin in the early 1990s “appeared most irregular”, a British commercial property consultant told the Mahon Tribunal yesterday.

Curiously, the phenomenon of crop circles has never been used before now as the basis of a Hollywood film ... it is a strange and mysterious world in which we live.