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Frank McGlynn’s insight into Genghis Khan tells of man driven by vision and circumstance to take over most of the known world with brilliant and brutal efficency by Neil Robinson. 

HOW will civilisation end?

Genghis Khan had an extraordinary mind and was a master psychologist and knew how to use cruelty to succeed. A new biography, finds Richard Fitzpatrick, explains how he became such a dominant figure.

In Lawrence of Arabia, Omar Sharif is first seen in the distance, a speck in the swirling desert sand. As he draws closer, he emerges first as a black figure on a galloping camel, slowly transforming into a handsome, dark-eyed figure with a gap-tooth smile. It wasn’t unlike the Egyptian-born actor’s debut in Hollywood.

When Rebekah Brooks resigned amid the greatest scandal in newspaper history, many thought that would be the end of her. They were wrong, writes Suzanne Harrington. 

Limerick City Council held its final meeting this evening after 817 years, ahead of being merged with the County Council on June 1.

EGYPT’S brief flirtation with democracy came to a tearful end. Regimes pay lip service to ‘the will of the people’, but it’s a principle ‘more honoured in the breach than in the observance’.

LAST month saw the Cheltenham Festival, the election of the first non-European pope in nearly 1,300 years and the continuing saga of horseflesh sold as beef.

We've already given you Five Things You Didn’t Know About Tom Selleck, now here are a few facts about probably the most famous facial hair in showbusiness.

I remember it like it was yesterday.

For centuries historians and treasure seekers have searched for the burial site of history’s most famous conqueror. New findings offer compelling evidence that it’s been found. Oliver Steed reports

Professional Irish jump jockeys Donie Fahy and Richard Killoran claimed first and second respectively in the latest running of the gruelling Mongol Derby.

WHEN Michael Cusack and his band of pioneers founded the GAA in Hayes’s Hotel 127 years ago, they would never have believed how big that organisation would grow.

THERE is a campaign afoot to ‘liberalise’ Ireland’s bankruptcy laws, led by Dermot Ahern and Willie O’Dea (both FF) and Deirdre Clune (FG).

WHEN Genghis Khan defeated his rival and friend Jamuka, to establish supremacy over the Mongol empire, two of Jamuka’s generals captured him and took him to Kahn for a reward.

Xanadu

Apparently the Mongolians thought this film about the early life of Genghis Khan was more than somewhat historically inaccurate.

THE world’s largest natural pearl on the market was expected to fetch up to $8 million when it went on auction at Abu Dhabi’s Emirates Palace last night.

The world’s largest natural pearl on the market is expected to fetch up to £4m (€5.85m) when it is auctioned at Abu Dhabi’s Emirates Palace today.

The world’s largest available natural pearl is set to be auctioned in the Emirates’ capital Abu Dhabi tomorrow.

Hollywood hard man Steven Seagal is desperate to break free of his action man film roles- and is begging film producers to let him have a chance at another genre.

ONE of the commonest birds in our cities and larger towns is the pigeon.

HIS name is on streets, schools, a brand of vodka and many a newborn baby.

A United States accountancy professor said to be the first man outside Asia identified as being directly descended from Genghis Khan says he does not believe the warlord is his ancestor after all.

SCIENTISTS in Ireland may have found the country’s most fertile male, with more than three million men worldwide among his offspring.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed the site of Genghis Khan’s palace and believe the long-sought grave of the 13th-century Mongolian warrior is somewhere nearby.

Archaeologists have unearthed the site of Genghis Khan’s palace and believe the long-sought grave of the 13th-century Mongolian warrior is somewhere nearby, the head of the excavation team said today.