With more than 30 superhero movies in production, Declan Burke looks at the rise of the genre. Where once the cowboy saved us in the Western, now we turn to Batman or The Avengers to take on the bad guys. They are figures of hope - and a welcome distraction.

The families of two British men jailed after going plane spotting in Dubai are having to “beg and borrow” to raise desperately-needed cash for the legal battle to free them.

Photographs of Hollywood stars found in a dusty old filing cabinet are to be exhibited for the first time.

You don’t win trophies by being this open at the back

His acclaimed performances in the likes of My Left Foot and There Will Be Blood have already led many to believe Daniel Day-Lewis is one of the finest actors ever to grace our screens.

Levi Strauss’s arrival in the US, 160 years ago this week, was to change fashion forever. And it all began with a tent, says John Daly

Post-mortem examinations on two toddlers believed killed by their father have proved inconclusive, police said today.

A WOMAN who found the bodies of her granddaughters and their parents screamed “all my babies are dead” as she ran from the house where they died.

James Bond legend Roger Moore is convinced he looked like a "dirty old man"

Hollywood veteran Clint Eastwood is suing a furniture company after it produced a line of chairs called 'The Eastwood'.

A British Airways plane taking British Prime Minister Tony Blair on his Christmas holiday was involved in a runway drama on landing in America.

A recruitment drive began today to fill 1,500 jobs at one of the country’s largest shopping centres.

GRACE PATRICIA KELLY was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to John Brendan Kelly Sr and Margaret Majer; her Irish Catholic family were new but prominent figures in Philadelphia society.

The Empire State Building - the skyscraper that King Kong scaled while holding tight to Fay Wray - yesterday dimmed its lights for 15 minutes in honour of the actress who died on Sunday.

Fay Wray, who won everlasting fame as the damsel held atop the Empire State Building by the giant ape in the 1933 film classic King Kong, has died at 96.

President George Bush has said Americans who expect another terror attack have good reason for such fears.

Death Wish star Charles Bronson, the Pennsylvania coal miner who drifted into films as a villain and became a hard-faced action star, has died, it was reported today.

"I don't see myself following in the footsteps of Liam, Pierce and Gabriel. I'm not driven by ambition to be a star. I'm just a spinner of other people's stories", says Ciaran Hinds.

Adam Sandler is an acquired taste - and Gary Cooper he 'aint!

Microsoft UK have launched a campaign to encourage staff to stop working so hard.

Dozens of military morphine cylinders used by soldiers when they are wounded were today found alongside a road.