APPLE’s next move in hands-free smartphone technology for drivers will be to unveil a new, integrated iPhone voice-control system at the Geneva Motor Show.

2015 is the centenary of the Armenian genocide that cost the lives of up to a millions Armenian men, women and children.

The Lonely Planet proclaimed it the top destination in 2012, yet Uganda is still a hidden pearl, writes Geoff Power.

Philomena Lee, Robbie and Claudine Keane, The Strypes and Snow Patrol were some of the guests at the US-Ireland Alliance’s ninth Oscar Wilde party which saw TV host Conan O’Brien and YouTube founder Chad Hurley honoured.

For a good four days there, from Saturday morning through to Wednesday, the Facebook feed went unfed and unchecked, Twitter managed to survive without @Rackob and the internet lost a good few hundred page hits.

Thousands of stories like John B Keane’s The Field in the 227 million hectares sold or leased in large-scale land deals since 2001. Denise Hall reports.

Uganda has become the first country to offer Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi refuge if he chooses exile.

ANTI-IRISH sentiment in 1970s Britain made its way to the Taoiseach’s office in letters written by British citizens disgruntled at the number of Irish immigrants arriving to work there.

“IF we weren’t here, we would be warriors,” young boys from the Karamajong tribe at Moroto High School explained to Irish Aid workers.

Forest Whitaker would rather starve than play a dull character.

Oscar winner Forest Whitaker will join Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis in reading out the Oscar nominations early tomorrow morning.

Oscar winner Forest Whitaker will join Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis in reading out the Oscar nominations tomorrow.

Scottish actor James McAvoy is not upset by his failure to land any major awards for his performances in Last King of Scotland and 'Atomement' - insisting he doesn't need prizes to feel rewarded.

Dozens of people were feared dead today in the violence that erupted following Kenya’s presidential election.

CONFIDENTIAL Garda files show about 100 gardaí were put on duty for a surprise landing of General Idi Amin in Ireland.

THE year 1977 was not a great one from the standpoint of the state papers. Historically, the most important events were related to that year’s general election. As the civil servants were not formally involved, the elections were glossed over in the state papers.

ROBERT MUGABE’S dictatorship is in its 27th year and, in a country where inflation stood at 6,592.8% year-on year in August, tens of thousands of people are in life-threatening situations.

The al-Jazeera news network will today broadcast a direct appeal from the Archbishop of York to the captors of missing BBC journalist Alan Johnston.

FOREST WHITAKER turns in the performance of his life as dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland (€24.99).

Some members of the Asian community in Uganda’s capital Kampala kept their children home from school, skipped work and left their shops shuttered today, a day after a protest ignited racial violence.

AT LEAST three people were killed yesterday in violent protests against a Ugandan government decision to hive off swathes of protected forest for sugar plantation by an Indian company, police said.

Oscar winner Forest Whitaker was so intense as ruthless Ugandan leader Idi Amin in movie The Last King of Scotland he terrified his castmates and friends.

Irish veteran star Peter O'Toole will receive the 8th Oscar nomination of his career tonight for Best actor.

Hollywood is gearing up for the Oscars – with Helen Mirren the strongest British contender in awards history

Dame Helen Mirren was queen of the Baftas tonight – winning best actress for her role as the monarch – while her movie was crowned best film.

IRISH actor Peter O’Toole picked up his eighth Oscar nomination yesterday at age 74.

The crowd-pleasing musical Dreamgirls led Academy Awards contenders today with eight nominations, but surprisingly was shut out in the best picture category after being considered a potential front-runner.

Helen Mirren is said to be a certainty for an Oscar nomination today for her role in The Queen, with a host of fellow British actors hoping to join her.

HARROWING drama Babel shared top honours with veteran director Martin Scorsese at the Golden Globes as hit musical Dreamgirls emerged as a serious Oscars contender.

Forest Whitaker threw himself so deep into his role as former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in movie The Last King of Scotland that even his wife and children refused to talk to him.

Like great painters, tyrants and dictators often make for fascinating screen portraits and here that fine, if often under-rated, actor Whitaker turns in a powerful performance as Uganda's twisted leader Idi Amin.

Forest Whitaker has hit out at suggestions his portrayal of former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was too 'attractive', insisting it's important the leader's charisma was captured onscreen.

IRISH actor Peter O’Toole has been nominated for a Golden Globe.

Clint Eastwood's Japanese-language film Letters From Iwo Jima has won the first major prize of the film-award season.

SADDAM Hussein deserves to be punished for his heinous crimes, but that punishment should only be in accordance with the rule of law, including the rule of international law.

The Ugandan People’s Congress tonight announced that its leader, former president Milton Obote died at a South African hospital following a series of illnesses linked to old age.

THE greatest barrier to development of chronically poor countries in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world is the quality of their political leadership.

NEWSPAPERS in east Africa yesterday shed no tears at the death of Idi Amin, the former Ugandan dictator whose blood-drenched reign in the 1970s left hundreds of thousands dead in one of Africa’s most shameful episodes.

Irish Third World Charity GOAL is calling on the international community to bring any remaining dictators and deposed leaders to justice.

Idi Amin, the ruthless former dictator of Uganda and one-time darling of the British army, died today.

FORMER dictator Idi Amin, blamed for the murder of tens of thousands of Ugandans in the 1970s, has received death threats at a Saudi hospital where he has been critically ill for weeks, a medical source said yesterday.

Idi Amin, the brutal former Ugandan dictator, remains in a coma in a Saudi Arabian hospital.

Former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin remains in a coma and his health condition is deteriorating, an employee at the hospital where he is a patient said today.