Watch the parachute of a supersonic “flying saucer” disintegrate as Nasa tries to find new methods of landing heavy spacecraft on the red planet.

Ian Madigan laid down a notable marker as Leinster kicked off their season with an impressive victory in the unfamiliar surroundings of Tallaght Stadium on Saturday evening.

A father plans to call his son will.i.am after the Black Eyed Peas rapper.

THE global warming debate is certainly hotting up, with your columnist Ryle Dwyer adding his voice to the chatter (Irish Examiner, January 17).

ON October 31, 1992, Pope John Paul II apologised on behalf of the Vatican for the persecution of Galileo Galilei over 350 years earlier. Poor Galileo had the nerve to say that the sun, not the earth, was the centre of our universe.