The Cure are sold out already, but Lana Del Rey has also been added to the summer roster for Malahide Castle in what has been a big week for gig announcements.

A genetic test that accurately predicts the risk of developing breast cancer could reduce the number of women choosing pre-emptive mastectomy surgery, according to a new study.

There are hopes that this is a watershed moment in Australia’s politics but Malcolm Turnbull, the fifth prime minister in just eight years, will need to tread cautiously, writes Gareth Evans

It's set to be a really, really big year for Star Wars fans. And you can kick things off in style with the Star Wars Celebration!

I didn’t like The Raid 2.

Munster head coach Rob Penney has kept faith with fly-half Ian Keatley to regain his form and steer the province to victory over Gloucester at Kingsholm tonight (6pm).

If you were thrilled by Gareth Evans’s bone-crunching action romp ‘The Raid’ back in May, then Pete Travis’s ultra-violent reboot of the 2000AD comic Judge Dredd will induce uneasy feelings of déjà vu.

Sacha Baron Cohen stars as General Aladeen and Megan Fox stars as herself in The Dictator.

IF SOMEONE said Hirwaun was a sleepy village in a southeast Asian country, you might believe it.

A small Indonesian movie has become the first from its country to to break the American box office.

Oil or regime change are not the motive for intervention in Libya, the UN resolutions could not be clearer, writes Gareth Evans

New manager Colin Calderwood claims Hibernian must have ambitions to challenge the Old Firm despite the Glasgow clubs’ stranglehold on the Scottish game.

BRIAN CAREY has been appointed Wrexham manager on a permanent basis.

Cork native Brian Carey has been appointed Wrexham manager on a permanent basis.

Shares in IT firm Computacenter fell 5% today after talks that could have led to a takeover by its co-founders came to an end.

THE family of a man missing from Britain for five months was relieved last night after he was found living rough on a mountain in Connemara.

Accountancy software group Sage today brushed aside fears that customers were reducing budgets for new technology by signalling a 16% hike in half-year profits.

Blackpool manager Colin Hendry was delighted with his side’s performance after they came within eight minutes of a famous win at Leicester.

Accountancy software group Sage today said growth in all of its major markets was expected to drive a 20% improvement in annual profits to £181m (€260.2m).

The son of a former world boxing champion and two professionals from Ghana are among the players who are 36 holes away from playing in the British Open following yesterday’s 16 regional qualifying competitions.

NON-LEAGUE Telford United and Gillingham provided shocks in the third round of the FA Cup, knocking out Crewe Alexandra and Premiership Charlton Athletic respectively.

A row in the stands between former England striker Ian Wright and a Queen’s Park Rangers supporter over-shadowed Manchester City’s Carling Cup win at Loftus Road.

Nelson Mandela is to lead a new UN anti-racism taskforce, which will also include Jimmy Carter and Mikhail Gorbachev.

A former Olympic boxer who smashed his mother’s collar bone in a midnight attack on her in her own home was today beginning a nine-month jail term.

A Leeds United footballer appears before Leeds magistrates today charged with assault and affray following an incident outside a pub.