Here’s your feel good video of the day. Robert Downey Jr. visited seven-year-old Alex to present him with a new bionic arm.

Millions of people around the world are to be offered the chance of immortality on the moon.

Millions of people around the world are to be offered the chance of immortality on the moon.

Germans sleep better, Bismarck once said, when they don’t know how sausages and laws are made.

WITHOUT striking too ghoulish a tone, perhaps it is fair to reflect that amid the brouhaha surrounding the death of Margaret Thatcher, an opportunity was lost.

Hollywood star Gwyneth Paltrow has confessed she struggled to follow the plot for her latest film Iron Man 3 after reading the script.

Sixteen people were in police custody after hundreds of demonstrators gathered at a London landmark to protest against Margaret Thatcher’s legacy and mark her death with a party.

Margaret Thatcher was a great world heroine who, along with former US President Ronald Reagan, was instrumental in winning the freedom of the hundreds of millions subjugated by the former Soviet Easter Bloc.

With the passing of the Iron Lady, the Anglo-Irish Agreement 1985 is seen by many as a breakthrough.

MARGARET Thatcher cast a long shadow over this island, from the days when she waved a big stick at men who were starving themselves to death, right down to the bonfire of the Celtic Tiger, which owed so much to her brand of economics.

FORMER taoiseach Garret FitzGerald personally pleaded with US president Ronald Reagan to pile pressure on Margaret Thatcher for an urgent compromise over the Maze hunger strikes.

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FOR Charles J Haughey the Fianna Fáil Árd Fheis of February 16, 1980 was the republican equivalent of a coronation. He was returning in triumph at the head of the party in which he was a kind of outcast — a virtual pariah in the eyes of many — for the past decade.

Joss Whedon has announced the cast for 'The Avengers'.

Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, went to the top of the US box office but did not earn a place in the record books.

AS A gambling novice, after a day on a high stool in a city centre pub in Cork, ‘studying’ the form like a monkey with an abacus, I ended the day’s racing yesterday with a recession-busting total of €15.36.

Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson piloted one of the planes that rescued XL holidaymakers stranded abroad, passengers said today.

Celestial Gold has been left as the highest-rated horse of the 20 that remain engaged in Kempton’s Racing Post Chase at the five-day stage.

Trainer Richard Phillips hopes recent recruit Pak Jack can make it third-time lucky over the Grand National fences when he lines-up for the totesport.com Becher Chase on Sunday.

PETER BOWEN launches a five-strong challenge as he bids for a second successive victory in the totesport.com Summer Plate at Market Rasen today.

Gordon Brown has made it into a list of the world’s 100 sexiest men, with the top place handed to Take That.

Lennox Lewis’ proposed summer rematch with Mike Tyson has been put in doubt with the news that the latter’s warm-up bout with Clifford Etienne, scheduled to take place in Memphis on Saturday, has been called off.

Lennox Lewis has been urged to ditch the attitude and concentrate on preparations for his clash with Mike Tyson.