Superheroes continue to defeat their foes at the box-office, with Disney’s Thor: The Dark World earning €109m and dominating the weekend box office as it opened in the US over the weekend.

Pre-tax profits at the property firm that recently handled the €67m sale of the Burlington hotel in Dublin plummeted last year by 88.5% to €196,396.

Edward Thomas was killed at Arras in 1917, but had long been suicidal and disillusioned with his writing, says Richard Fitzpatrick

Convicted war criminal and former Liberian president Charles Taylor said during his sentencing hearing that he sympathises with victims of the civil war in Sierra Leone he helped foment, and asked judges to render their sentence against him in a spirit of “reconciliation, not retribution”.

Champions Celtic showed six changes for their Clydesdale Bank Premier League clash with Motherwell at Fir Park.

THE managing director of one of the country’s largest property firms, CB Richard Ellis said yesterday that he is “quite pleased” that the firm returned to profit last year.

TOUGHER inspection laws in Britain make it “highly unlikely” that a situation could arise like Priory Hall in Dublin, where residents had to evacuate the development because of serious fire safety concerns, a building expert has claimed.

Scotland Yard is expected to have spent more on policing the riots than it spent on policing all major public order events in the capital last year, officials said today.

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Charles Taylor’s lawyer has stormed out of court after judges refused to accept a written summary of the former Liberian president’s defence case at the end of his war crimes trial in the Netherlands.

Olivier Kapo made his first start for Celtic in their Clydesdale Bank Premier League clash with Motherwell at Parkhead.

ONE of the country’s largest property firms, CB Richard Ellis, expects to return to profit this year after pre-tax losses increased by 58% to over €850,000 last year.

PROSECUTORS were yesterday accused of scoring a “spectacular own goal” after calling supermodel Naomi Campbell as a witness in the war crimes trial of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor.

Prosecutors were today accused of scoring a “spectacular own goal” after calling supermodel Naomi Campbell as a witness in the war crimes trial of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor.

A WAREHOUSE driver who was asked to resign his job at a beer distributor went on a shooting rampage yesterday morning that left nine people dead, including himself, and others wounded, company and government officials said.

A disgruntled warehouse driver killed nine people, including himself, and wounded others in a shooting rampage today, company and state officials said.

Property consultant CB Richard Ellis has appointed a new managing director for its Irish operations.

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North Korea is using an international heroin smuggling trade to fund its nuclear weapons programme, a senior Pentagon official has claimed.

Victoria Beckham has told a court how an alleged thief stole her luggage containing a treasured baby book with a lock of Brooklyn's hair.

Christine Keeler, the woman at the centre of the Profumo scandal, claims she was made pregnant by the then Secretary of State for War.