American singer Rhiannon Giddens will perform work by three African-American composers at the Guinness Cork Jazz Festival.

A Westmeath businessman has been fined today for failing to comply with a request to provide documentation to the Pensions Ombudsman.

Samantha Morton finds it "very hard" to be a working mother.

Rich Ross, chairman of Walt Disney Co’s film unit, has resigned following the company’s $200m (€150m) loss on the science-fiction picture John Carter, possibly the biggest ever for a single movie.

Taylor Kitsch was made to look "awful" in 'John Carter'.

Cusack is suitably woebegone as the poverty-stricken Poe, the expression in his melancholy eyes constantly vacillating from depression to rage and perhaps even madness, and he gets strong support from Luke Evans as the dogged Detective Emmet Fields and Brendan Gleeson as the scenery-chewing Colonel Hamilton, father of Poe’s love interest, Emily (Alice Eve).

Since Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel 'A Princess of Mars' was published nearly 100 years ago, his otherworldly tale story has been subsequently been reworked and riffed on by nearly every sci-fi book or movie to follow.

Relatives of people still missing three days after an earthquake shattered the New Zealand city of Christchurch arrived today from several countries to join an anxious vigil for news that looked increasingly likely to be grim.

Chimneys and walls crumbled to the ground, roads cracked in half and residents were knocked off their feet as a powerful magnitude-7.1 earthquake rocked New Zealand’s South Island early today.

New Zealand’s South Island was under a state of emergency today and rocked by aftershocks after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake caused widespread damage.

A military psychiatrist who killed 13 people in a gun rampage on a US army base was being held in hospital under armed guard today.

George Clooney led a parade of old favourites back to 'ER' as the medical drama nears the end of its 15-year run.

GARDAÍ who exhumed four bodies from a graveyard close to the home of a convicted rapist and murderer say they are satisfied that information they had received about an illegal burial, while incorrect, was reliable and was given in good faith.

Jason Robinson and 10 other full internationals will make up the majority of the Sale Sharks side that will be hot favourites to overturn Connacht in the first-leg of the European Challenge Cup semi-final the Sportsground on Saturday.

Mike Tyson today pleaded not guilty to charges resulting from a fight at a Brooklyn hotel, and lawyers said the former heavyweight champion was provoked by the two men he allegedly attacked.